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Title: Gleanings in bee culture
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees Bee culture
Publisher: (Medina, Ohio, A. I. Root Co.)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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e-ceding page is owned jointly by Mr. J. W.Free and myself, ^^e took all precaution))ossible to prevent l^Airopean foul broodfrom getting in this apiary. Having in-spected all surrounding apiaries in 1908 Ihad the nearest diseased apiary promptlytreated, it being about two miles from theFree apiary. In the spring of 1909 Mr. Free was watch-ing carefully for signs of the disease. Hereported, on May 31, that the brood did notappear healthy* in some colonies. I exam-ined the apiary,and found Euro-pean foul broodin 40 colonies outof the 1B5 colo-nies. The tall hiveat the left-handcorner of the pic-ture i^roduced -118lbs. of extractedhoney the previ-ous year, and wasthe first colony todevelop the dis-ease in the laststage. It was agreat temptationto attempt topatch up this api-ary by treatingonly those colonieswhich showed dis-ease, about two-thirds of the col-onies being pureItalians of thegolden strain, therest being partlyblacks; but we de-cided to treat the 658 Gleanings in Bee Culture
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ALDRICH S TWO-STORY HONEY-HOUSE AND WORK-SHOP. Mhoe apiary at once, fearing a delay mightbe dangerous. As soon as the honey-flow opened we start-ed the McEvoy treatment, beginning at theright-hand corner. The flrst liive was mov-ed back of the house, and the next two col-onies were shaken back in their hives andgiven five frames with starters about oneinch deep, and their brood placed on top ofthe hive back of the house, which had itsqueen caged. We continued this treatmentover the whole yard. We did not unitevery many colonies, as the disease had notmade much headway at the time of treat-ment. But it continued to spread. Theweather being warm, the bees commencedto swarm out of the hives after being shaken,so we raised up the hives and placed anempty hive-body under them, which stop-ped the swarming-out. On the fourth dayafter shaking, the comb built was removedand full sheets of foundation given them;also Italian queens where the stock showedany black blood. In about twenty days thec

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