I02 A Modern Bee- Farm 



harm by attempting a cure, and with his want of experience, 

 he will do well to be clear of it. 



CAUTION ! 



should be the bee-keeper's watchword, while extreme 

 vigilance will bring its own reward. Now ye, who have 

 never seen foul brood, do be most careful to note that 

 frequently in summer its appearance is to be discovered 

 by irregular or "patchy" slabs of brood, among which 

 there are no black or rotting grubs whatever ; for while the 

 bees are actually storing, every sickly larva is at once 

 removed ; so that when patches of brood known to have 

 been quite compact are presently of irregular ages and 

 appearance, it is time to be strongly suspicious. 



Do not by any means wait until the complaint is 

 strongly in evidence, with the unsealed larvae turning 

 yellow, and then dark brown or black, instead of ever 

 presenting a pearly white appearance, while some of the 

 capped brood is in the same state, with coverings pierced 

 and sunken. Now, here is a distinction to be observed 

 between the genuine foul brood and simple chilled or dead 

 brood. In the former case none of the larvae dries up to 

 a white cinder, being always rotten and slimy, so that the 

 bees do not, as a rule, remove it from the cells. In the 

 case of 



Chilled Brood and Simple Dead Brood, 



The former is soon removed by the bees, and should 

 any be overlooked, it dries into a hard lump without 

 changing colour. Timple dead brood resulting without 

 chill, and with no apparent evidence of disease, has in 

 some cells the appearance of the genuine foul brood, but 

 with this the greater part of the nearly mature bees dry 

 up and retain their original form and colour. By this 

 feature alone I have always been able to distinguish the 



