The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture

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Title: The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Benton, Frank, 1852-1919 Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library WU
Subjects: Bee culture
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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returning the hive to itsoutside stand. FOUL BROOD. This disease, being highly contagious, is dreaded most of all by thebee keeper. It is due to the presence of minute vegetable organismsin the body of the bee, the larva, or the egg, which prey upon its tissues.These, as Prof. Frank Cheshire has shown, are bacilli, which, multiply-ing with marvelous rapidity by division and also by spores, are carriedfrom hive to hive, until from a single infection the whole apiary is soonruined. The particular bacillus which is commonly known as foul broodProfessor Cheshire has described as Bacillus alvei, or hive bacillus, as itaffects not only the brood but also the adult bees. (See PI. XI.) Thefirst symptoms noticeable in the hive are its lack of energy, then deadlarva? turned black in the cells, and finally sunken caps, some of themperforated slightly over larvae and pupae. All of these symptoms may,112 Bui. 1, new series, Div. of Entomology, U. S. Dept. of AgricultureJig.1x702. Plate XI 2 x 700.
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