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Show Probable Cause of Foul Brood. Clntreville, Davis Co., August 10, 1S76. Editors Herald: In my experience foul brood is traceable to small colonies, where the ' contagion begins, arising from the stencli from the putrefied brood, . whilii the first iuleciiou arose from j exposure by the lack of sufficient bees lo maintain the required heat in ; i maturing tho brood. A small cslony j with a prolilic queen is mad" pi inject j to this contingency. Slie nnl retain all her workers indoors, until the brocd is out of danger by its advanced s'age. This she is not likely to do. A portion must go into the tie!d for supplies; in fact her master would soon be knocking at her door if this were not ihe case. I wish to inquire of those who are, or bavo been, troubled with foul brood, it the first ot the disease in the locality did not appear in small swarms? If this is the case, we have made one point in the solution of the problem. Two years ago I lost my little apiary of fourteen swarms from this disease or infection. It arose in one of my smallest colonies but a handful ol bees. They first appeared to be doing very well, having an extensive ex-tensive brood for the amount of bees. I looked for them to come out quite strong in a few days, but it was the reverse. A close examination revealed re-vealed the sad state of the brood. I cut out ihe dead brood and endeavored to strengthen them Irom other swarms, which only served lo spread the infection in my apiary. It went no farther. N. T. PORTSR. |