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presence of a iveakened colony, breeding and feeding amongst, 

 and warming up to blood heat such neglected matter, which they 

 in a deteriorated state are unable to remove. 



Ever since my very severe lesson experienced over 

 twenty-five years since I have held to this declaration as 

 a truth to be maintained in the face of continued opposi- 

 tion from scientific investigators, and more recently I 

 have been pleased to notice that among my supporters I 

 have Mr. McEvoy, the foul brood expert and Government 

 Inspector of Canada, who probably has handled — and 

 cured — more of this disease than all other bee-men put 

 together. 



Our scientific friends say at once, " Dead brood can not 

 turn into foul brood, and there can be no such thing as 

 ■spontaneous generation." It is of no use replying that I 

 quite agree with them. Dead brood as they think of it, 

 may remain, and even rot down, and no disease such as 

 foul brood need exist. But, if they will only follow my 

 proposition to the very letter, they may have the same 

 experience that I have done, they will have the same 

 ending to their experiments, and^ a new light will enter 

 their understanding. 



Notwithstanding the expression has many times been 

 thrown at me by prominent scientists, I do not support 

 any theory of spontaneous generation, and until my 

 critics will go over exactly the same ground that I indicate 

 in my proposition — and none have done so — they cannot 

 conscientiously assail my position. They rely upon what 

 they know, aud what most of us have known since my 

 lamented friend Cheshire's researches have been published 

 on the subject, regarding the action of the Bacillus Alvei 

 as a "continuing" cause of foul brood. Thus what is 

 only a cause of infection is erroneously looked upon as 

 the origin of the disease. 



