TREATMENT FOR BEE DI8EASE8. 69 



found none. Two years ago I found the disea'se l><>tli in the -ruled 

 and unsealed brood, and the question conic- up: Have we both dis 

 eases, the European and the American foul brood? I began to hunt 

 for another disease attacking sealed brood, and I found it thai year; 

 l>ut I looked further, and in 65 colonies which I shook off last spring 

 you could nol find disease in any unsealed brood. Last fall ;i 

 year ago I went to one apiary thai had several colonic- in winch the 

 sealed brood was diseased. I (old the family what they could do. 

 I -aid: ** You will either have to fight this disease and take care of 

 the colonic- through the winter or you can burn them up." I will 

 say they were not bee keepers, and they said just to burn up every 

 thing. I agreed to this, but said that there were two colonic- in the 

 apiary that had only a few cells diseased, and I would experiment on 

 them — that I would take them under my own management. I 

 burned the rest, but I kept those two colonies until this spring. This 

 spring they became weak and I set one colony on top of the other. 

 Last week I went hack there, although I had examined them some 

 time ago, and they had starved to death. 



One shaking, I am sure, will do under favorable condition-, hut if 

 the bees are not gathering honey. ! would not advise shaking. 



M EDICATION. 



Mr. Dadant. Has anyone ever tried feeding medicated sirup? 

 The reason I ask the question is because some people succeed with 



drui:-. 



Mr. Smith. Mr. Reynold- was the first man in Illinois who im 

 ported Italian queens. lie said that after foul brood got into his 

 bees and destroyed them he heard of a remedy that could he obtained 

 at the drug store-, and the next time lie transferred hi- bees he used 

 this and he had good hick with them. 



Mr. Dadant. After shaking them' 



Mr. Smith. Yes, sir; and he ordered some of this drug from St 

 Louis just a short time ago. He -aid he was going to \'rr<\ it to the 

 bees next spring for fear they would develop the disease again. 



Mr. Qdo ToKiM'KKw kin (Texas). It i- a good idea to feed the bees 

 sugar and aaphthol beta. 



Mr. Atciiu-.y. A- Mr. Scholl ha- already stated, I don't believe 

 treatment will eradicate foul brood in Texas. I have -f^w a few 4 

 people that have experimented this season in shaking bees. \\ e have 

 never been able to determine results in shaking in one season. I have 

 had the disease disappear in the summer and fall and the next year 

 the colonic- would he diseased again. Another point, in Texas bees 

 are too cheap to treat. We can hum them and buy other colonic- to 

 replace them with less expense. 



