4o6 Remedies for Foul Brood. 



injure the bees, but will prove fatal to the fungi. Mr. 

 Muth found on trial that though tliis method would cure, 

 the labor and danger of spreading the disease in the opera- 

 tion was so great that actual cremation of all affected stocks 

 was often to be preferred. An improvement which is just 

 as successful and without the objections, is suggested by 

 Mr. Muth as follows: Drum the bees all out into a clean 

 hive, filled with foundation, shut them in this hive and feed 

 them honey or syrup, after adding to each quart one ovince 

 of the above compound, except that sixteen grains each of 

 the salicylic acid and soda-borax are used, thus making the 

 solution of double the strength. The honey should be 

 extracted and boiled, the old combs melted into wax, and 

 the hive scalded or burned. Great caution should be exer- 

 cised that none of the honey be eaten by bees till it has been 

 scalded. In 1874 Dr. Boutleroff, a Russian, introduced car- 

 bolic acid or phenol as a cure of foul brood. Dr. Preusz 

 also recommends this very highly. It is recommended to 

 destroy the worst combs, remove the queen, and in twenty- 

 one days remove the bees to a new hive and feed them 

 with syrup one pound of which has received two drops of 

 carbolic acid. It is best to melt up all the combs, extract 

 and scald the honey, and scald the hives. The bees may 

 be put on foundation. A less safe way is to uncap the 

 cells and spray with the following: Pure crystalline phe- 

 nol is dissolved in one-fourth its weight of water. One 

 part of this is added to fifty or seventy-five parts water and 

 used as the spray. But there is much danger of scattering 

 the germs, inoculating some visiting bee from another 

 hive, or of not making thorough work. In this day of cheap 

 foundation it is better to melt up the combs and use founda- 

 tion. The thorough way is the wise and the only safe 

 way. Mr. Cheshire claims that the germs are not in the 

 honey, and claims to have been very successful in the worst 

 cases, by treating with phenol. 



Some bee-keepers in England think they have cured 

 this malady by simply placing camphor gum in the hive. 

 The fact that others have not succeeded with this remedy, 

 makes it a very doubtful one. 



Mr. D. A. Jones is successful with what he terms the 



