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brought out in a healthy condition. Mr. Cheshire says at the 
conclusion of his paper : 
“‘T could take an apiary at the beginning of March with every stock 
diseased, and by May Ist, with but very little labour, deliver it up 
clean and strong, as strong as though the disease had never appeared. 
After the reading of the paper the late editor of the British 
Bee Journal, in company with many prominent bee-keepers, 
examined a stock that had been treated by Mr. Cheshire for 
the cure of bacillus alvei, and which had been placed in the 
Health Exhibition. This stock had been sent to Mr. Cheshire 
five weeks before, with seven of its combs “ affected with foul 
brood in its most virulent form, being a mass of corruption.” 
These seven combs, with two others, when examined, were 
perfectly clean and had 
‘‘literally not one single cell affected. Whole sheets of brood in all 
stages were to be seen quite healthy ; young bees hatching out and 
eggs being laid in the vacated cells. This wonderful change had been 
effected by the bees alone, aided simply by the administration of the 
medicated food.” 
The simple manner of preparing a syrup of the strength 1 to 
500 is to take one ounce of the phenol with three ounces of 
warm water, to thoroughly dissolve it, and then mix with 
thirty-one pounds of sugar syrup or of diluted honey. 
Writing later in the year, Mr. Cheshire announced that he 
found the plan of pouring the medicated syrup into the combs 
to answer admirably in spring and summer; but if the cure 
has to be effected in autumn, he recommends to give the phenol 
in a cake made of sugar and pea-flour, placed on the top of the 
frames, under the mat, as the bees are not disposed at that 
season to clean out the combs, as they would in spring and 
summer, and the use of the liquid syrup is likely to start rob- 
bing. The cakes he prepares “in the usual way; but after 
removal from the fire, during the stirring and cooling process, 
painstakingly mix with it one-fifth ounce of phenol to each 
seven pounds of sugar.” 
THE SALICYLIC ACID REMEDY, 
Notwithstanding what has been said against the use of 
salicylic acid in cases of bacillus alvei, many reports of cures 
