■I04 A Modern Bee-Farm 



apiary, in the light of facts now being placed before bee- 

 keepers. 



Foul Brood a Terror no Longer. 



So many bee-keepers have been wrecked upon this 

 hitherto dangerous rock, that my somewhat extensive 

 treatise upon the subject may be excused by my deter- 

 mination to end once and for all, if possible, those endless 

 worries, and constant waste, to which sufferers have been 

 subject, 



I have endeavoured to show how the disease, if handled 

 in a rational manner, need have no further terrors either 

 for the amateur or the commercial bee-keeper, and there 

 is therefore no reason why the industry should not be 

 placed upon a firmer basis than hitherto. 



The Definite Izal Treatment 



followed by those who have experienced the lasting 

 pleasure of seeing their diseased stocks turned into 

 healthy, profitable colonies was recommended by me, as 

 follows : — 



(i.) To begin with never spray or sprinkle combs, 

 having large quantities of healthy brood with any disin- 

 fectant. Place them near the outside and so treat when 

 all living brood has hatched out. 



(2.) In commencing to treat any very weak diseased 

 stock (seeing that this treatment obviates any destruction 

 ■of combsj first of all give the said colony a full comb of 

 hatching brood. It this cannot be done, then burn comb, 

 frames and bees at night, first smothering the bees. 



(3.) Treatment with Izal Solution. Have a change of 

 hives, and wash out each week (three times will generally 

 suffice) with solution of one tea-spoonful to two quarts of 

 water. At the same time saturate the whole of the 

 quilting by dipping it into a pan of the solution, and if 



