68 MEETING OF INSPECTORS OF APIARIES. 



who i> here from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Bryan, 

 Tex., working for Professor Conradi, has been conducting experi- 

 ments on this shaking treatment, and yon might get him to tell yon 

 something about it. 



Mr. Ernest Scholl (Texas). I am glad to be called upon, because 

 T have been paying close attention to the shaking treatment, and as 

 soon as Mr. J. Q. Smith mentioned his method of shaking but once, 

 I thought surely he is dealing with different condition- or it must 

 have been an accident that he succeeded. My work- ha- been mostly 

 in the northern part of the State, hut in one case I had some work in 

 the central part. I thought I would try some experiment-. We 

 tried shaking once, but it would not work: the disease appeared just 

 as badly a- ever. We tried shaking twice: that worked better, so 

 that >hows that shaking once does not work here. I have tried many 

 other experiments, and am still on the go. but this is the only point I 

 want to bring out. Shaking once i^ not sucessful in Texas, and I don't 

 think it ever will be. I don't see how Mr. Smith can be successful 

 in treating, because the bees gorge themselves with honey. Down 

 here, as soon as you open a hive the bees will run to the cells and. 

 consequently, shaking once would not work: and. as my brother said, 

 there is always some honey taken up and the bees carry it into the new 

 hive. 



Mr. Juneau. Mr. Smith's plan i> satisfactory in Colorado. We 

 shake our bees there, but Ave smoke them a little bit and we -hake only 

 when a honey flow is on. The honey will sometimes drip on the 

 wing- of the bees, but it is very seldom that foul brood starts again. 

 I have been an inspector there for a number of years, and the general 

 way is to shake the bees hard. We shake them a little bit differ- 

 ently. We put paper down and we -hake when the honey How is on 

 and we save nearly all the brood — that is. the healthy brood — and let 

 it stay twenty-one days. The reason for letting it stay so long i- be- 

 cause there i> honey around and the bee- hatching out will use it. 

 Not only do the inspectors instruct that shaking be practiced, but the 

 State association has issued pamphlets, in which this treatment i> 

 explained, to be given by the inspector to each man who has foul 



brood. 



Mr. I). C. Milam (Uvalde County, Tex.). In our locality we are 

 governed by conditions. If the conditions are not favorable for 

 -baking, we burn the bee-, frames, and all. If the condition- are 

 favorable, -baking i- all right. Last May I -hook five colonic- in 

 one apiary for experiment, and week before last I went there and 

 they were all right, but honey was not coming in fast. 



I wish to -peak of another thing. In thi- apiary I watched espe- 



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y to -re if there was any disease of the unsealed brood and I 



