No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 693 



from front. Next turn your body so that bright daylight comes 

 over your shoulder and shines in each cell where your view of sus- 

 pected disease is found, (See Plate II). The white line in this picture 

 shows the angle I want the light to come in each brood cell. Gas or 

 electric light will not take the place of sunshine or strong daylight. 

 On the lower side wall, just back from front end of the cells, will 

 be seen the apparently dead foul brood, nearly black, with a sharp 

 pointed head slightly turned up. The body portion of the bee flat- 

 tened to a mere black lining of its cell, no thicker than one side 

 wall of the comb cells. The other side walls and bottom of the 

 cell look clean. The scales, if present as described, are a sure proof 

 of foul brood. Such infected combs must be burned or melted in 

 boiling water, thus killing all disease and saving the wax. Diseased 

 combs melted by sunshine heat will not kill all disease. I always 

 use abundance of boiling water in saving wax from old combs. I first 

 melt the combs in a large kettle of boiling water, and when all melted 

 and well stirred, is then strained through the wax press, thus saving 

 everything of any value. 



TREATMENT. 



McEvoy Treatment. — In the honey season when the bees are gath- 

 ering honey freely, remove the combs in the evening and shake the 

 bees into their own hives; give them frames with comb foundation 

 starters and let them build combs for four days. The bees will make 

 the starters into comb during the four days and store the diseased 

 honey in them which they took with them from the old comb. Then 

 in the evening of the fourth day take out the new combs and give 

 them comb foundation (full sheets) to work out, and then the cure 

 will be complete. By this method of treatment all the diseased 

 honey is removed from the bees before the full sheets of foundation 

 are worked out. All the old Foul Brood combs must be burned or 

 carefully made into wax after they are removed from the hives, 

 and all the new combs made out of the starters during the four 

 days must be burned or made into wax, on account of the diseased 

 honey that would be stored in them. All the curing or treating 

 of diseased colonies should be done in the evening, so as not to have 

 any robbing done, or cause any of the bees from the diseased col- 

 onies to mix and go with the bees of healthy colonies. By doing 

 all the work in the evening it gives the bees a chance to settle 

 down nicely before morning, and then there is no confusion or 

 trouble. 



TO PREVENT SWARMING OUT WHEN TREATED. 



This same method of curing colonies of Foul Brood can be carried 

 on at any time from May to October, when the bees are not getting 

 any honey, by feeding plenty of sugar syrup in the evenings to take 

 the place of the honey flow. It will start the bees robbing and spread 

 the disease, to work with Foul Brood colonies in warm days when 

 the bees are not gathering honey, and for that reason all work 

 must be done in the evening when no bees are flying. 



When the diseased colonies are weak in bees, put the bees two, 

 three, or four colonies together, so as to get a good sized swarm to 

 start the cure with, as it does not pay to spend time fussing with 

 little weak colonies, When the bees are not gathering honey, any 



