them dwindled dqwn badly and a trace of E. E. B. could be seen. They made' 

 no honey as long as the Foul Brood was in the hive, but as soon as the bees 

 increasedj the Italians cleaned their hives. I can say that the best Italians are 

 masters of E. P. B." He further states that his Italian bees of the A- strain 

 which was sent him 'for testing have- completely mastered European Foul Brood 

 although it was very bad in every one of his black colonies before he introduced 

 them. The above letter was from J. B. Stone, JSTorham, Northumberland County. 



The following extracts are taken from some letters received during thje winter 

 of 1914 and 1915, with reference to queens sent out for testing in 1913. 



"I never had anything like the I strain of bees. They beat any black or 

 hybrid bees I ever had. I consider them practically immune to E. F. B., prolific, 

 non-swarming, gentle enough, good honey gatherers, cap comb honey all right. 

 If I could have had such queens 25 years ago at $10.00 each I would have been 

 awnj ahead now. The G stoclc has proved to be absolutely worthless to me." — 

 li. Lowey, Woodrows, Prince Edward County. 



"The queen I received from J in 1913, was . successfully iiitroduced into 

 a colony with European Foul Brood. They cleaned it out and were well prepared 

 for winter. Wintered in fine condition, and did well as honey gatherers in 1914." 

 — G. M. Hern, Niagara Falls, Lincoln County. 



"The queen you sent me in 1913 from A was introduced and did well. I 

 raised some nice queens from her; some of them were dark, a;lthough one of' 

 the dark ones was the cleanest and best to gather honey I had in 1914." — T. W. 

 Prood, Eenfrew, Eenfrew County. 



"Ee queen received in June, 1913, from E for testing — ^may say that her 

 colony has so far resisted European Poul Brood and are excellent honey gatherers." 

 — J. E. Mills, Eichmond, Carleton County. 



"In reference .to the queen sent me in June, 1913, will say that I successfully 

 introduced her, built up a strong colony and they came through the winter in 

 first class shape giving me in 1914 about 40 lbs. of first class section honey. 



"You will remember about four years ago Foul Brood was the nightmare 

 of the bee-keeper. Since then by tests and observations it has practically become 

 the safety valve of the beekeeper. For the simple reason that if any beekeeper 

 allows his queens to become degenerate the disease appears. I claim that you 

 have done more to promote beekeeping in the past two years by the distribution 

 of queens than was done in 20 years before. It gives any man, especially a 

 beginner, such a demonstration of facts that if he does not heed it, out he goes." — 

 John Eay, Fort" Erie, Welland County. 



European Foul Brood was first reported in Ontario in 1907 in the apiary 

 of Warrington Scott, of Wooler, Northumberland County. About the same time 

 the disease was also reported in Carleton County. The spread has been from 

 those two centres of infection, and no isolated outbreak has been discovered, with 

 the exception of Welland County, where the disease is known to have come 

 across the Niagara Eiver from New York State. In Nq^thumberland a4id 

 Carleton the apiaries were practically all black bees, not vefy carefully kept, 

 and it was found to run its course and destroy an apiary yery rapidly. For 

 example, one apiary of 112 colonies wa.s reduced to 20 in t^yo years. Another 

 apiary of 180 colonies was reduced to 21 in one year. Another apiary of 60 

 colonies was reduced to 44 in one year and the balance all diseased the second year. 



In 1910, the local inspector, Warrington Scott, reported: "I travelled over 

 the same ground as last year and found that all the bees had been treated except 

 one apiary, but very little Italianizing had been done, an^' consequently the 



