Show 7 FOUL BROOD A LKtle Moro on this Subject From a Bee Man SALT LAKE CITY June 7 1880 Editors Herald A little more on foal broad We do not wish to become wearisome en this subject but rather to impress upon the minds of all beeksepera the necessity of a united effort throughout through-out the territory to utterly destroy and effectually eradicate this terrible disease from our borders and as there is no necessity of importing any more bees into our territory from abroad there will be no fears on this account of importing tbe disease in that way as baa already been the case Wo will quote a few reliable authors of great experience on the foul brood subject Wm M Qainby the distinguished bee man says Foul brood can be traced from a diseased stock to a bealty one like measles whooping cough smallpox and other diitaies peculiar to the human family American Bee Journal p 252 Vii 8 Herr Lsmbrecht and his committee commit-tee appointed by the Central Beekeepers Bee-keepers Association of the Kingdom of Hanover after many experimental teati to cure tho contagion cay 1 Foul 1 brood cannot be cared See American Bee Journal p 267 vol 8 June 1873 for their full report W H S Harbison a distinguished beekeeper of California says If Destroy De-stroy U by barning or otherwise wherever found W H Alley of Wbenharo Masr says Destroy hive beea and all by flreAnzericczn Bee Journal 1870 Editors Wagner and Cark of the same journal any Wm Alleys is the only effectual remedy for foul brood broodt a bee meeting held in Provo I Utah County March 9ib 1SSO it wa i the unanimous voice of that meeting that foul brood was contagious and that the only way of cffectally destroying de-stroying it was to burn or bury the bite and all of its contents Wm Edwin Whiteing of Springville Utah County Gays that he has lost 100 swarms I of bees by foul brood which valued at 12 each hive would be 1200 His remedy is burning them up entirely when effected Geo B Bailey of Mill Creek hw lost 1600 from foul orcoJ and after much experimenting with the disease concludes that the most effectual means of destroying it is by fireS fire-S H Potman of Woodruff Utah says By all means burn or bury all infected hives C Stillmau of Mill Creek has ojt by foul brood over 300 I Messrs W Woodruff 8 E Murphy Mur-phy John Herbs John Morgan Ed Morgan Dan Bryan J A Wright Reuben Miller and others in Salt Lake County have lost over 125 swarms from the same disease the estimated es-timated loss being 1500 In Salt Lake City about 100 warms have been lost by the same cause W J Burton of Iron County and W R Burbsck of Cedar City say by all means destroy foul t brood hive whenever when-ever found Mr J E Johnson of StGeorge and Mr C F Arthur of Cedar say destroy all affected hives asa as-a sure remedy The direct loses sustained sus-tained within a brief perioJ by the citizens of Utah from tho rfvages of this plague are estimated at 7060 The consequents 1 losses are set down at 14120 Total I 21180 EDIVAED STEVFSSOH Secretary Territorial Bee Association |