Show loui toul brood putrid foul doul foul brood is la i disease which attacks the young brood of tife the hive showing rully fully after the larvie jarvas have been teen sealed beaud up it rna may be known by the viscous g gelatinous and yeast ilke like appearance of the decomposing brood the unpleasant odor arising from irom the I 1 live ive and by the sunken covers 0 of lien hecels eili elli the he cause of foul brood has las been until jintil recently involved n doubt but late discoveries in giermann Gi ermany have thrown much light lipon upon its origin dlf dif mr alf Lampre lamprecht chit clit alleges that he be his has discovered the cause of the disease his eig theory is this the tithe chyme which the workers prepare from honey ana anut anit pollen by partial digestion and with which the larvae are fed contains a nitrogenous plastic formative su substance bs tance cance from which all the organs and the barzas ate are tae derived rived and comsos composed gd and precisely because of this its complicated composition it is peculiarly susceptible of rapid decomposition when exposed to air and moisture that is 19 1 fo to undergo fer laloi and putrefaction it ia 18 hende hence obvious that pollen even though having undergone only a partial decomposition i must affect the bodies of or bees and differently from what it did do in its natural condit condition ion lon and there is 18 no longer a doubt that hat it I 1 is s from pollen thus hart part partially lauy laVy decomposed that thac the foul bro brg brod od origin originates ates that it can readily undergo tion is manifest moisture emanating in part from tin unsealed sealed honey bogey and in part parl from the perspiration of the bees becomes condensed in the hive from external cold and in lu the fall and hpward spring it is frequently found han hanging haD gIng in drops on the combs just as we find it e condensed d n s e don on the windows of our 10 atele dwelling li n g houses if one of t these h e s drops fam falls into a cell containing pollen decomposition of the latter speedily jy commences and is then communicated by the bees beeg to the pallen in theother cells celis aud and the th cause of foul brood is a hive thus circum stan ced J the discovery of dr preuss an n eminent physician tand land maedl logist 61 is t is that a microscopic fungus 01 gryp j p to al vearis developed develop qt from fermenting matter feeds upon the young larvia and thus causes foul roul brood and that by means of the numerous numerous rules rulea of the fungus the disease is spread through the ulve hive and finally through the apiary to show the character of abia microscopic pest we quote the foll following dwing from the article of dr Pre ussr published inthe el tung and translated by mr T W rhe the adl roo ff us which I 1 ava ut aa 0 o alvear al vearis 28 belong at the fun gold uit lit round and dust ha pedr th ere ju ui son jur th this s disease ahen h z s once ata obtained ined ill eard eadd wy way of I 1 ke bas bees an and d haney flud and thorough purification of the he j the only remedy td 16 pre q i vent the spread of the thi disease AA aln ann a means menns i a e aid hia s of rde preventing the dis disease bace dr preuss gives tho the following di dl no ferme fermenting D ting honey feed no meal especially when thee the hive els eis threatened ened with di disease stase destroy carefully every parti patti cler cier of dead and moldering matten matter and avoid weaken weakening illg ilig bees beis during th the brooding seasons so that they will not be able properly to maintain the heat necessary for the development of the brood with the ilg light ht now thrown upon up on the nature of this disease by these r recent i discoveries beekeeper may ma beable be abe to conquer the contagious malady when whenever faven fAver it makes its ap apr pear pe arance duce patent patel office 1 lepot Ie pot or |