PREFACE, 



Having been engaged in apiculture quite extensively ia Germany, 

 and on a smaller scale in this country, I have been in the position 

 to notice the sad havoc foul brood has worked, in Europe as 

 well as in this country ; being also in the possession of extensive 

 material, in the shape of essays, reports and manual extracts of 

 day-books kept by bee-keepers engaged in curing this disease, fur- 

 nished me by friends and acquaintances ; and being also aware that 

 foul brood prevails more or less in almost every State' in the Union, 

 I have ventured to ofEer the- bee-keeping public a concise method, 

 delineated in these pages, by which they will be enabled success- 

 fully to combat this dreadful malady. I have drawn on the experi- 

 ence and experiments of the most noted scientists and apiarists of 

 Germany, such as Professors Kolbe, Cech, Fischer, Preuss and 

 Lamprecht, but especially Hilbert and Schoenfeld, to whom the 

 bee-keeping fraternity of the whole world is indebted for their 

 efforts and final success of curing foul brood, and to whom I (>Ser 

 my sincetest thanks. THE AUTHOR 



