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intelligence, a far higher education than this working 

 cottager ; who, however, will always at least be your 

 equal in that set determination to overcome every 

 difficulty. 



A bee-keeper of life-long experience writes : — " During 

 the autumn of 1897, I was called in to look at a 

 neighbour's bees (five hives) with a view to purchase, and 

 on entering the garden found them literally stinking with 

 the disease. Opening them one by one I showed this tO' 

 my friend who readily acquiesced in my doing as I liked 

 in the matter. I then cut a piece of brood comb from the 

 worst lot and enclosing it in a coffee tin, sent to the 

 Editor of the British Bee Journal for his opinion, in order 

 that my friend might be satisfied I was not trying to beg: 

 his bees. In the following number of that Journal a note 

 or reply was found saying " it was impossible to conceive 

 of a worse case of foul brood." Well to cut a long story 

 short, we destroyed all but this worst lot, and that I 

 removed to an isolated spot for experiments, cut out all 

 brood and left it until February of last year. During a 

 very mild day of that month I peeped at each comb and 

 though breeding was going on, no sign of foul brood was 

 there. Or course Napthaline was there in quantities and 

 something else, and that something else was ' Izal.' 



I reported this later to the British Bee Journal omitting 

 any mention of Izal, but only received a private letter 

 saying it could not be printed, and asking me to wait till 

 about May or June, then report again. I steadily applied 

 my Izal treatment, and in due course reported the com- 

 plete cure, and the hive gathering honey splendidly, after 

 having cast a 61b. swarm. 



I had a few other cases brought under my notice during 

 last summer, and in every hive but one, complete cure 

 was the result of a few dressings'with the Izal treatment. 



