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brought out in a healthy condition. Mr. Cheshire says at the 

 conclusion of his paper : 



" I could take an apiary at the beginning of March with every stock 

 diseased, and by May 1st, with but very little labour, deliver it up 

 clean and strong, as strong as though the disease had never appeared. " 



After the reading of the paper the late editor of the British 

 Bee, Journal, in company with many prominent bee-keepers, 

 examined a stock that had been treated by Mr. Cheshire for 

 the cure of bacillus alvei, and which had been placed in the 

 Health Exhibition. This stock had been sent to Mr. Cheshire 

 five weeks before, with seven of its combs " affected with foul 

 brood in its most virulent form, being a mass of corruption." 

 These seven combs, with two others, when examined, were 

 perfectly clean and had 



" literally not one single cell affected. Whole sheets of brood in all 

 stages were to be seen quite healthy ; young bees hatching out and 

 eggs being laid in the vacated cells. This wonderful change had been 

 effected by the bees alone, aided simply by the administration of the 

 medicated food. " 



The simple manner of preparing a syrup of the strength 1 to 

 500 is to take one ounce of the phenol with three ounces of 

 warm water, to thoroughly dissolve it, and then mix with 

 thirty-one pounds of sugar syrup or of diluted honey. 



Writing later in the year, Mr. Cheshire announced that he 

 found the plan of pouring the medicated syrup into the combs 

 to answer admirably in spring and summer ; but if the cure 

 has to be effected in autumn, he recommends to give the phenol 

 in a cake made of sugar and pea-flour, placed on the top of the 

 frames, under the mat, as the bees are not disposed at that 

 season to clean out the combs, as they would in spring and 

 summer, and the use of the liquid syrup is likely-to start rob- 

 bing. The cakes he prepares "in the usual way; but after 

 removal from the fire, during the stirring and cooling process, 

 painstakingly mix with it one-fifth ounce of phenol to each 

 seven pounds of sugar." 



THE SALICYLIC ACID REMEDY. 



Notwithstanding what has been said against the use of 

 salicylic acid in cases of bacillus alvei, many reports of cures 



