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Foul-Brood.
I thought a word from one who has had long experience with it would not be amiss. During the year 1880 I lost, out of about 100 colonies, all but four with foul-brood. I notice that some claim that the spores only are carried, and that the disease is spread by honey alone. But my bees contracted the disease from an empty hive that I bought in Dallas and carried home. A foul-brood colony had, of course, occupied the hive, and I found that the disease would spread from hive to hive by robbing, by changing queens or hives, or by keeping diseased colonies in the yard.
It kept on until the whole apiary was destroyed. When I extracted any honey, there would be enough of the foul-brood matter to make the honey look and act like jelly. When foul-brood is as bad as that, there is no cure without burning up everything. After all the bees in range died it ceased, and I have not seen any foul-brood in this country for eight years. My bees did well last season, and all are now in good condition.
-- MRS. JENNIE ATCHLEY. Farmersville, Tex., Dec. 9, 1891.
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