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condition of the contents, they generally leave it with a small per- 

 foration in the center until quite dry, then the capping is removed, 

 and in time honey may be stored in the cells containing the scales of 

 disease. The millions of disease spores then float out into the honey, 

 which becomes a medium for carrying the disease to other healthy 

 larvae by robbing, in the same or some other apiary. Some of the 

 honey is also carried into the supers, to mal<:e room for alterations 

 in the brood nest, and is marketed in the form of bottled or section 

 honey. It goes into many homes, especially in towns and cities. The 

 wooden sides of the sections, and many of the empty bottles, or 



Fig, 



2.-American foul brood; a, «,/, normal sealed cells; 

 .■,./, sunken nappinps, showiocT perforations ; g, sunken 

 cappintr not perforated; //, /, ,„, n, q, r, larva affected by 

 disease; .. /,/, i, scales formed from dried-down larvae- 

 il, 0, pupa; affected by disease. Three times natural size! 

 (Origfinal.j 



washings from them, are thrown out bv housekeepers and cleaned 

 up by bees of the neighborhood, and the disease is carried home to 

 their healthy brood. TMs is why we find more disease in the apiaries 

 around towns and cities than elsewhere. 



TREATMENT. 



The cause of American foul brood is found in a bacillus or micro- 



fCV It ,e T" ""'^V^'^^'^^h^d - '-^t easily transmitted n 

 the hone . It develops and reproduces Very rapidly. To be cured 

 of this disease a colony must be free, fJn J Ms in^^l Zl,, 



