highest success evea if Foul Brood iiG\'er existed. Keep your bees up to a high 

 standard of vitality, and it will make but little diif-erence whether your neighhouirs 

 are cai'eless or not. With vigorous stocic and careful attention, it is not necessary 

 to destroy combs in the treatment of this disease." 



The above words of Warrington Scott cannot be too often repeated. 



So far as it can be seen :by the careful observer who is not a bacteriologist, 

 tlie disease diminishes in virulence after it has been in a particular locality for a 

 few years. It is also true that the resistance of the bees increases as a result 

 of natural selection or " survival of the fittest," On the other hand, apiaries pre- 

 viously Italianized and carefully watched when the disease arrives are not so 

 badly affected. 



In 1910, West, of New York State, wrote favoring both reduced virulence 

 and increased resistance. " European Foul Brood is not so virulent after it has 

 been in a colony for two or three years as it is at first. Many weaJcer colonies 

 die off and some do not, and from such, a race more immune to the disease starts 

 up." 



The fact that Stewart's "D" stock from an apiary of good resisters dn New 

 York did not resist in Brown's apiary in Oi^tario, indicates greater virulence in 

 the newer disease district. This is further supported when it is considered that 

 Brown's case of disease was of recent origin, while Smith, who had the disease 

 for five years, found the D stock to he good resisters. Scott's^ statement that he 

 now considers it safe to introduce a less resistant race and West's statement that 

 Capt. Hetherington'g success with Carniolans may be accounted for bv__the fact 

 that "he had passed over. the worst of E.F.B. before he tried them," indicate 

 diminishing virulence. Scott's further statement: "1 feel sure that the disease is 

 much less virulent after being in an apiarv a few years," and the fact that the 

 New York State outbreak was reported in 1897;— ten years before it was heard from 

 in Ontario — probably accounts for certain marked difPerenoes in symptoms, of the 

 disease as reported in New York and in Ontario. 



One fact is clear, that, from whatever cause, European Foul Brood is more 

 easily controlled after it has been some years in a locality. 



The educative value of this work is very arratifving. For instance, the ex- 

 perimenter at Fort Erie, who pays such a hisrh tribute to the distribution of 

 queens, was lust three or four years ago violently opposed to apiary inspectors; and 

 all their deeds. 



