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

 flattened to a mere black lining of its cells, 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, is a sure proof 

 of foulbrood. Such infected combs must be burned or melted in 

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

 eased combs melted by sunshine heat will not kill all disease. Al- 

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

 First melt the combs in 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 

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

 the bees into their own hives ; give them frames with comb founda- 

 tion starters and let them build comb for four days. The bees 

 will make the starters 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 foulbrood 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 colonies 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 foulbrood can be car- 

 ried 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 foulbrood 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. 



