Report of State Inspector of Apiaries. 63 



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 

 apiary can be cured of foul brood by removing the diseased combs 

 in the evening and giving the bees frames with comb foundation 

 starters on. Then, also, in the evening feed the bees plenty of 

 syrup, and they will draw out the foundation and store the dis- 

 eased honey which they took with them from the old combs ; on 

 the fourth evening remove the new combs made out of the starters 

 and give the bees full sheets of comb foundation and feed plenty 

 of sugar syrup each evening until every colony is in first class order. 

 Make the syrup out of granulated sugar, putting one pound of 

 water to every pound of sugar, and bring it to a boil. As pre- 

 viously stated, all old combs must be burned or made into wax, and 

 so must all new combs made during the four days. No colony is 

 cured of foulbrood by the use of any drug." 



All the difference from the McEvoy treatment that I practice 

 — I dig a deep pit on level ground near the diseased apiary, and 

 after getting a fire in the pit, such diseased combs, frames, etc., as 

 are to be burned are burned in this pit in evening, and then the 

 fresh earth from the pit returned to cover all from sight. Often 

 I use some kerosene oil, a little at a time being poured on old brood 

 combs or those having much honey in, as they are hard to burn. 

 If diseased combs with honey in are burned on the surface of the 

 soil there is great danger, the honey when heated a little will run 

 like water on the soil and in the morning the robber bees will be 

 busy taking home the diseased honey that was not heated enough 

 to kill germs of foulbrood. 



I also cage the queen while the bees are on the five or six 

 strips of foundation. It helps to keep the colony from deserting 

 the hive and going to other colonies. 



GETTING RID OF FOULBROOD. 



Baldridge Treatment — "I am positive that I know how to get 

 rid of foulbrood in my own apiary and I see no reason why others 

 can not do likewise. I think my plan is so very simple and prac- 

 tical that any bee keeper, though a novice, can adopt it, and with 

 the best of results. In the first place I cage the queen of the dis- 

 eased colony so as to stop breeding, and then place the caged mother 

 in the top of the hive where the bees can have ready access to her, 

 and likewise so I can get possession of the cage when needed, and 



