LYSOL

Referring to a report from Germany, where a Mr. Fulde has cured foul brood
by means of a new disinfectant, lysol, Dr. C. D. Miller asked in Gleanings,
page 88. "What's lysol and will it work as well in the English language as
in the German?" The editor remarks thereon: "I should be interested, also,
in knowing whether the disease stayed away. Perhaps Mr. Gravenhorst will
answer the question."

Yes, I will answer the question according to the best Information I can get.
I have not tried lysol, because I did not know of it before September of
last year.

The new disinfectant has been manufactured for a few years by Schiilke &
Mayr, at Hamburg, Germany. They produced it from coal-tar. It has a brown
color, and smells like tar. In Germany it Is to be had In every drugstore,
and perhaps In America also. Mr. Pulde purchased a bottle of lysol for 2 1/2
cents, and therewith cured his bees, which were badly infected with foul
brood. He took ten pounds of sugar-syrup, boiled and skimmed it, and mixed
Hup with 24 drops of lysol and 4 drops of carbolic acid. He gave a colony a
soup-plate full of this food. After three days he found the sick larva dry
in their cells, and in a lapse of three weeks not a trace of foul brood was
to be found In his colonies. They were sound, and did swarm. Later he has
fed lysol in the same way, particularly in the spring, to protect his bees
against foul brood. He never saw a trace of it again.

That's all I know about lysol. 

By C. J. H. Gravenhorst "Gleanings in Bee Culture" Jan 1, 1895

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