44 FOUL BROOD. 



Sometfanes it happens that queens or drones are raised in 

 diseased stocks, and their progeny have the disease in its 

 worst or mahgnant form. In a stock having one of these 

 queens, the disease can only be kept under by constant treat- 

 ment, and it reappears soon after the treatment ceases. In 

 such a case the queen should be removed, and one from an 

 apiary known to be healthy substituted, when the disease will 

 give way to treatment as described. 



For spraying combs a small apparatus called a spray-pro- 

 ducer will be necessary. The best form, which costs about 

 three shillings, has an india-rubber ball bellows connected 

 with the nozzle by a long india-rubber tube. Any apparatus 

 for this purpose worked by the mouth will be fatiguing to 

 use, besides being inefficient in action. 



Foul brood is not only a cause of loss to the owner of the 

 infected stocks, but all the bees in the neighbourhood for miles 

 round are likely to take it, and when this happens it is very 

 difficult to rid an apiary of it permanently. So destructive 

 has it become in parts of the United States of America that 

 many of the Bee-keepers' Associations there talk of petition- 

 ing Congress to pass a measure under which any person who 

 knowingly keeps foul-broody stocks without notifying the 

 proper authority, can be severely punished by fine or impris- 

 onment. 



