He Wrote on !Peb. 30, 1911, that he had one yard of bees' which had not 

 been affected, "although the disease had passed all around him. He was rearing 

 queens for sale from that yard, and we shall call his stock D. 



On Feb. 18, 1911, N. D. West, Middleburg, N.Y., another Stq,te Apiary' 

 Inspector, wrote: "The very yellow strains of Italians do not seem to stand the 

 disease like sonie of the three-banded race." On Mar. 16^ 1911, in reference 

 to Carniolans he wrote: "Capt. Hetherington thought well of them when he was 

 alive. He thought they were good to resist European Foul Brood; but he had 

 passed over the worst of European Foul Brood before he tried them. As I find 

 them in my inspection work a good strain of pure Italians is better to resist- 

 European Foul Brood." 



On Mar. 22, 1911, Wheeler D. Wright, of Altamont, N.Y., another .New 

 York State Inspector, jsvrote: "I have found by practical experience that the 

 following strains of Italians resist the disease well, namely: A, B, C. My pre- 

 ference is tiie A stock. 



In Oct. 1911, A. T. Brown, of Castleton, Durham County, Ont., wrote that 

 a queen of the D stock proved to be a , good layer, but failed to rid. the colony 

 of European Foul Brood. He continued by saying, "I have just one out of 

 fifty colonies that kept clear of European Foul Brood, after one shaking, and 

 made a nice lot of honey. It was a black colony." 



The following correspondence was received during the winter of 1912 and 

 1913: 



"The Carniolan colony was not any better if as good as the blacks to resist 

 European Foul Brood." — ^W. T. Eanscella, Cumberland, Eussell County. 



'^In the latter part of the summer some disease cells developed in the Carniolan 

 colony. She was the best colony I had for honey gathering so I was quite 

 ■disappointed. The Italian queen I received from F has shown no signs of Foul 

 Brood whatever, though not so good as the Carniolans for honey gathering she 

 did good work." — Hector M. Wood, Crookston, Hastings County. 



"The Italian queen you had sent to me by F was received in fine shape. 

 This year I got four natural swarms from it. All' went in cellar in good shape. 

 I examined them at least ten times and no signs of B. F. B., and I have five 

 colonies from that queen." — ^Wm. Peck, Et. JSTo. 1, Murray, Prince Edward County. 



"Our queen came from E. We introduced it on June 13th, 1911, into two 

 colonies which had been treated for European Foul Brood- On June 21st, we 

 found Foul Brood again, but a month later and also when we put them in" the 

 cellar we could find no trace of the disease. In* 1912, we found several cells 

 diseased, but they disappeared in a week or two afterwards. . We have other 

 colonies which made more hohey, but few with finer combs of brood or less 

 disease." — The Scott Sisters, Meyersburg, Northumberland County. 



"I have learned more about bees in the past year than all I have learned in 

 all the years I have kept bees. They have always paid me very well, but I 

 knew very little of what their ability was to make money until you proposed 

 to let me experiment in regard to the mastering of European Foul Brood. ' I 

 think I have been most successful. I never saw a fines, lot of bees than I have 

 produced in one year, and I had plenty of European Foul Brood. I have none 

 now, my hives are clean. All Italians are not proof against it, but I have some 

 that^ are. Within two weeks after the queen you sent began to send out her 

 brood there was no trace of Foul Brood. She filled the hive with brood, every 

 card was filled up. This was in 1911. My bees came out fine in the spring of 

 1912, but it turned out to be one of the worst springs I ever saw. Three of 



