and its Economic Management. loi 



■Cheshire conducted many exhaustive experiments, and 

 investigations in regard to this matter, and was certain in 

 his own mind that the disease affects not onlj'' the brood, 

 but the adult bees and the queen as well. He also assured 

 me that the disease could not exist in the presence of acids, 

 and though he was able to show a stock completely cured 

 by his own treatment with a solution of carbolic acid ; it 

 would appear by the light of my own after experience, 

 and the numerous failures reported by others who have 

 tried to follow out his treatment, that he was not quite on 

 ■safe ground, as we shall presently see. 



A Revolution 



has occurred in the treatment of what may be termed the 

 *' bee-disease " ; or rather, I should be more correct in 

 ■saying that a complete change has taken place in my own 

 methods of subduing it, as also in my opinion as regards 

 its effects upon bee-keeping ; for as a matter of fact any 

 radical change, or revolutionary teaching, though proving 

 undoubtedly correct in application, is seldom accepted by 

 the public as an economic principle for at least a decade 

 after its advent, as instance, several improved methods 

 advocated by me some fifteen to twenty years since, and 

 quite recently brought forward by our American cousins 

 as new and important items in management. 



Initial Stages of Disease. 



It has so frequently been stated that the disease can be 

 ■discovered by the foul smell emitted by the stock which 

 may have it, that I consider it necessary to warn the 

 uninitiated not to wait for such a rude awakening. 

 At that stage it is very infectious indeed, and it will be a 

 •saving to burn the hive and contents at once. With a 

 colony in such a state the novice is certain to do only 



