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last vestige of the disease from the apiary. 1 
have never discovered any symptoms of it 
since.” 
Cheshire, already alluded to, one of the 
most scientific authorities on the subject, 
whose researches have made his name famous, 
insists on there being a queen in the hive, 
and he applies his remedy Iphenol) by feeding 
the bees with medicated syrup. 
In his paper on “ Foul Brood,” read 25th 
July, 1884, Mr. Cheshire argues that the 
remedy Ghould he given in the food, but he 
found that to place the bottle with added 
phenol on the hive would, however, do nothing 
in the great number of cases. If honey were 
coming in the bees would not touch the 
mixture, but open the stocks, remove the 
brood comb, and pour from a bottle having a 
dropping tube loosely placed in its neck the 
medicated syrup into those cells immediately 
around and over the brood, and the bees 
would and did use a curative quantity of 
phenol. 
Further on he 3ays : — “Last autumn I 
inoculated a stock and allowed it to get into a 
bad condition. I then inserted a comb of 
store in the centre of the biood nest, and 
treated one side. The disease disappeared, 
but raged, although with abated fury, in the 
other half. . . .” 
Having found that 1 in 200 was refused by 
the bees altogether ; that 1 in 400 might be 
given constantly to a sound stock without 
appearing to limit the queen in breeding, or 
touch her health ; that 1 in 500 dispatched 
foul brood quickly, even while honey was 
coming in, and that 1 in 750 appeared enough 
when it was not, I have established these 
quantities as the correct ones. I then, in the 
interests of apiculture, requested the British 
Beekeepers’ Association to provide me with a 
had case so that the attention of beekeepers’ 
might be arrested. The colony has been 
supplied me by the kindness of Mr. Mills, and 
has been open to visitors, marked by Mr. 
Hooker, and officially attested. When it 
arrived on the night of 21st June it contained 
seven frames, only bees enough to cover two 
of them, and queen cell afterwards found to 
contain foul broody matter only, scarcely any 
living brood, and a good deal of dead. A 
casual counting of one of the best frames gave 
871 dead larva! on one side. The odor was 
pronounced. A case such as this would have 
been utterly hopeless on any plan but the one 
I am now advocating. ... I had stipu- 
lated that the hive should have a queen, so 
my difficulty was greater than I had antici- 
pated, and yet the hive is here to-day, strong, 
vigorous, and healthy, and has been so for a 
week passed. No cell has been uncapped, no 
diseased grub removed by me. My treatment 
has been giving food, and getting that food 
converted^ into bees as rapidly as possible. 
Mr. Cheshire then describes how a queen 
was given to the colony, and proceeds : — “ I 
waited three days till she was regularly lay- 
ing, giving them syrup phenolated by 1 in 
500. . . . The bees were now shut up to 
four frames, and those behind the division 
board, waiting introduction as the bees multi- 
plied, smelt so badly — the weather being hot 
— that for comfort of self and bees 1 was 
forced to spray with water 200, phenol 1. 
livery evening the medicated syrup was given. 
The smell vanished, the bees became active 
and earnest. The comb, with 371 dead larva; 
on one side, was last added, and in six days I 
could find only five sunken caps in the whole 
of it. Now and again a grub did take the 
disease, but quickly perfect immunity was 
the issue. The brood is now as bright, pearly, 
and healthy as any I have seen. . . .” 
Professor McLain’s method is given in the 
American Bee Journal of 15th September, 
1886, as follows : — “ Take of soft water three 
pints ; of dairy salt 1 pint. Use an earthen 
vessel. Raise the temperature to 80 degs. 
Fall. ; do not exceed 90 degs. Stir till the 
salt is thoroughly dissolved ; now add one 
part of soft warm water in which has been 
thoroughly dissolved four tablespoonsful of 
bicarbonate of soda (use the crystals) ; stir 
thoroughly ; add to this mixture sufficient 
sugar or honey to sweeten it, but not enough 
to perceptibly thicken it. Now add one- 
quarter ounce of pure salicylic acid. Mix 
thoroughly. Let this mixture stand two 
hours, when it becomes settled and (dear. 
Treatment. — Shake the bees from the combs, 
and extract as clean as possible. Now 
thoroughly antomise the combs, using the 
mixture and a large atomiser. Keturn the 
frames to the colony. If there is no honey to 
be obtained from the fields, feed honey or 
syrup to which has been added three table- 
spoonsful of the mixture to each quart of 
honey or syrup ; stir well. The honey just 
extracted may be used without injury to the 
bees if the mixture is added, hut no more 
should be furnished than is consumed. 
Atomise the colony two or three times more, 
simply setting the frames apart so as to direct 
the spray well over the combs and bees — not 
brushing off the bees. Three or four days 
should intervene between the times of treat- 
ment. The last may be given on top without 
removing a frame. As a preventative apply 
on top of frames, or in any way by which the 
bees may get it. ... 1 would recommend 
that you give the entire apiary one applica- 
tion of the mixture prescribed for cure, as 
this treatment frequently prevents the 
presence of the disease where it was not 
before possible to detect it. The quantity 
prescribed for use by means of a large atomiser 
is sufficient to treat 150 colonies. Not reckon- 
ing the sugar or honey used, the cost will not 
be more than 15 cents. 1 have prescribed 
this treatment with entire satisfaction and 
