56 A Modern Bee-Farm 



The disease is first to be noticed by the unsealed larvas turning 

 yellow, and then dark brown or black instead of ever presenting 

 a pearly white appearance, while some of the capped brood is in 

 the same state, with the coverings pierced and sunken. Now here 

 is a distinction to be observed between the genuine foul brood 

 and simple chilled or dead brood. In the former case none of 

 the larvffi dries up to a white cinder, being always rotten and slimy 

 so that the bees do not, as a rule, remove it from the cells. 



Chilled Brood and Simple Dead Brood. 



The former is soon removed by the bees, and should any be 

 overlooked it dries into a hard lump without changing colour. 

 Simple dead brood resulting without chill, and with no apparent 

 evidence of disease has in some cells the appearance of the 

 genuine foul brood, but with this the greater part of the nearly 

 mature bees dry up and retain their original form and colour ; by 

 this feature alone I have always been able to distinguish the 

 difference between the two, and have put an end to the more 

 simple affair in all cases by destroying the queen and giving a 

 young and vigorous one to the colony. 



Cheshire Cure for Foul Brood. 



Mr. Cheshire has presented to the bee-keeping world what has 

 in his own hands cured some of the worst cases of foul brood that 

 he could secure. The remedy is absolute phenol or pure carbolic 

 acid, used in the proportion of i-4ooth in the syrup fed to the bees. 



Mr. Cheshire considers that the queen must not be removed ; 

 but on the contrary I have found the first step towards a rapid 

 recovery is made by deposing the reigning queen, and giving a 

 young and vigorous queen bred from clean stock, when the 

 entire attitude of the bees is changed, and great determination and 

 energy takes the place of the former utter inability to clear out the 

 foul stuff. 



If the disease begins in early spring it is very likely the colony 

 will go down hill at a rapid rate and the remnant will not be 



