You have now made an artificial swarm, which must be given the conditions 

 a new swarm likes, or it will leave and carry its disease to parts unknown, or perhaps 

 into some healthy hive in the apiary. A new swarm likes plenty of ventilation 

 and shade and also plenty of clustering room. To satisfy this natural desire it is 

 sometimes necessary to place an empty hive under the one containing the starters 

 for a few days. This simple precaution will generally prevent the swarming out 

 which so often happens in treating foul brood. 



All combs from the supers as well as from the brood-chamber of the diseased 

 colony must be either burned or melted and boiled thoroughly before the wax is 

 fi:. to use again. The honey that is removed is entirely unfit for bee feed, and 

 should be burned or buried deep enough to be out of the reach of any bees. 



On the third evening after the first operation the starters and what combs 

 have been built must all be removed. This time the bees should be given full 

 sheets of foundation, and the cure is complete. 



If directions have been followed carefully and thoroughly, the above treat- 

 ment should be successful. To make sure, however, the brood must be examined 

 again in about three weeks and again the following season. 



If the disease reappears in any colonies they must be treated again. 



Saving Brood. 



Brood from badly diseased colonies is of no value, and dangerous, and should 

 be burned, buried or otherwise destroyed at once. Brood from colonies having only 

 a few cells diseased may be placed over an average colony slightly diseased, and 

 the queen caged. In ten days treat as given above. 



Saving Combs, 



It is never safe to use super-combs that have been on diseased colonies. Even 

 though they may appear white and clean, germs of the disease are apt to lurk in 

 them from year to year. To melt these down is no serious loss, as the wax will 

 more than make foundation for new ones. 



Disinfecting. 



Hives which have formerly contained diseased colonies, or in which diseased 

 combs have been stored or carried, should be burned over inside with a gasoline 

 or oil torch. 



Fall Treatment. 



If the disease is discovered late in the season, and the colony is still strong, 

 leave it until November, take the diseased combs away, and supply honey from a 

 healthy colony, in full sealed combs. Be sure that the combs are all sealed, and 

 that they are from a colony which has no disease. 



If the colony is not strong enough to be worth this treatment it should be 

 destroyed at once, as one great source of spread is the spring robbing out of combs 

 left by the winter death of such colonies. 



