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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
had used phenol in the treatment of foul brood with a 
good deal of success. I replied that I would seek 
opportunities of experimenting, and, if I found the 
result advantageous, I would, as I am always glad to 
do, mention his name, with thanks for the suggestion.’^ 
The suggestion, as I now know, was not novel. But 
the way of utilising the remedy had not yet been 
discovered, and Mr. Sproule, with it in his hands, 
for want of noting the way of giving it, lost a large 
part of his apiary. His plan was to feed with syrup, 
into which he put a small quantity of Calvert’s No. i 
phenol, or carbolic acid ; but Ligurians refused the 
food, and succumbed to the disease. Striving to keep 
to my expressed intention of seeking opportunities 
to experiment, I, up to the close of 1883, found and 
treated six stocks, with results that convinced me that, 
with proper management, I had a remedy beside 
which salicylic acid was but vexation of spirit. Old 
experience with the latter drug had shown me that 
the system of spraying was chilling and depressing, 
and that medicine and food should, if possible, be 
given together. We thus get a constant quantity, as 
every grub must receive the same amount of nourish- 
ment ; and if we have a curative agent, and have 
ascertained the dose, the difficulty is accomplished. 
“To place the food, with added phenol, on the hive, 
will, however, do nothing* in the greater number of 
cases. If honey be coming in, the bees will not 
* These are the ver}- words I used in my Address three years since ; 
and yet many, with a perversity which is almost incredible, say that 
phenol will not cure, for they have given it in the food-bottle, but the 
bees would net take it. 
