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Mr. Ajnderson. I know this: [f you cut this foul brood out before 

 there is another exposure, you won't get it in thai colony unless n i 

 carried from somewhere else. I have proved that. 



Doctor Phillips. A.s far as the forty-two day-" time is concerned, 

 I have do faith in it. because in most cases inside of forty-two days 

 the colony would be dead. I have seen that demonstrated. 



Mr. Holekamp. I might ask how early can the disease be dis 

 covered \ 



Doctor Phillips. Not sooner than the ropiness of the larvae be 

 comes evident. I never saw a sample of diseased brood from 

 Texas, but, assuming for the moment that the condition'- in this 

 Stale are similar to those in California, the method described in the 

 East is not going to work in Texas. It will work where the disease 

 is not virulent: The same thing holds true for European foul brood. 

 Where it has existed for live years it is easily treated, nnd the Alex- 

 ander treatment is sometimes successful, but it is not when the dis 

 ease first appears in a locality. As you know, European foul brood 

 started in New York and is spreading to the Vermont line. You 

 will find a great difference in the type of disease in Schoharie County 

 and on the Vermont line. The same thing seems to hold in a differ- 

 ent way for the American foul brood. The disease is much more 

 easy to combat in the East than in the West. I visited California 

 this summer. Inspectors there have proved to their satisfaction l hat 

 Eastern methods are not satisfactory, and they told me that it is 

 necessary to burn out the hives. Mr. Smith does not burn hi- hives, 

 and the inspector in New York does not burn hives: they insist, how- 

 ever, that no honey and no wax cells remain in the hives and that the 

 hives b«- dean. That does not prove satisfactory in California. We 

 know that this one disease is a very different proposition under dif- 

 ferent climatic conditions, and in discussing treatment it is neces- 

 sary to bring out this point. In discussing treatment in bee jour- 

 nal- writers forget or do not realize that the plans which they advo- 

 cate may not do in different places. As Mi-. Parker said in his 

 paper, the eastern treatment will cure nine-tenths, but the oilier 

 tenth has to be taken care of. The disease seems to be much more 

 virulent in the western part of the United States than in the east- 

 ern part. 



Mr. L. Scholl. Our condition- are the same here a- in California, 

 I am -ure. We have tried some of the shaking treatments, but they 

 were unsatisfactory. On account of the character of the disease here, 

 we think we are on the safe side in using the burning method until 

 we can find something better. While Mr. Smith and oilier- gave their 

 method of shaking the bee-. I wish to put the <|iie-tion whether these 



treatments would work' west of the Mississippi River, and that i- 

 why we have been practicing such radical measures here. My brother, 



