20 MEETING OF EN8PECTOR8 OF APIARIES 



Mr. France. From Michigan. 



Doctor Phillips. Our first accurate knowledge of European foul 

 brood in the United States was the epidemic in New York State, and 

 most bee keeper.- -till look on the disease as -till being confined to that 

 State. However, European foul brood is now round in New York, 

 Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Ohio, West Virginia, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. Reports have 

 been received at the Bureau of Entomology from all those State-. 

 The disease is rapidly going west. 



COMPARISON OF DISEASES. 



Mi-. William Ai< m.r.v (Texas). Which of the two diseases is con- 

 sidered worse, the American or the European foul brood ? 



Doctor Phillips. That is a point which was simply suggested in 

 the descriptions just read. European foul brood spreads more rap- 

 idly than the other, but at the same time it will at times absolutely 

 disappear of its own accord, which i- something that the American 

 foul brood seems not to do. We have these two factor- over against 

 each other, and I should as soon try to eradicate one disease a- the 

 other. As far as loss is concerned there seems to be very little differ- 

 ence. 



Mr. J. Q. Smith. (Illinois). How many specimens have been sent to 

 the Bureau of Entomology from Illinois? 



Doctor Phillips. Two, I believe. 



Mr. Smith. I was in correspondence with some of the persons hav- 

 ing this disease among their bees, and I advised them to -end samples 

 to you. 



INFECTION IX HONEY. 



Mr. lv. A. Holekamp (Missouri). Have the bacteria of both dis- 

 eases been found in honey from infected hives? 



Doctor White. We believe that the infecting agent may be present 



in honey in each case, since the experience of the bee keeper ha- been 

 that the infection of a healthy colony has followed the feeding of 

 honey from hives affected by either disease. 



INFECTION OF LAKY.L. 



Mr. A. II. A.nderson ( Utah). How doe- the larva become infected? 



Doctor Phillips. The manner by which this is brought about is not 

 all entirely certain, but the facts would tend to show that it is through 

 feeding on infected material. 



Doctor White. It would appear that internally the contamination 

 is caused by being carried by worker bee-. A> they move over the 

 combs and clean out the cells they come in contact with contaminated 

 material. On any part of the body one can find Bacillus alvei; so I 

 -hall leave it to you. a- you are more conversant with bees, 



