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Mr. Surrn. If you wait till evening you will never get through. 
Mr. Murnu. Do you use smoke in that operation ? 
Mr. Suirn. I use no smoke. 
Mr. Mourn. How long do you keep the bees on the strips of founda- 
tion; do you feed them right away ? 
Mr. Smiru. Yes. 
Mr. Mutu. You don’t believe in starving them at all? 
Mr. Smirn. No, because the bees coming from the fields are loaded 
with honey. 
Mr. Mourn. Do I understand that the bees have these bacteria all 
over them ? 
Doctor Putuuips. Yes; they have the contamination on them. 
When they are shaken they of course have it all over them, and when 
they are shaken off they doubtless take the bacteria with them. 
The McEvoy system is the radical treatment of shaking twice, which 
the majority of bee keepers do not use. 
Mr. Yorx. If I mistake not, Mr. McEvoy recommends the second 
shaking. 
Doctor Puitiies. He recommends the second shaking after the bees 
begin to drop from starvation. 
Question. What do you do with the unhatched brood m the infected 
hive? 
Mr. Smiru. My recommendation is to destroy the whole thing. 
EFFECT OF REQUEENING ON DISEASE. 
Mr. Dapanr. Has removing the queens any value in treating the 
two diseases? Alexander, Simmins, and others have recommended 
removing the queens. Is this of any value in either clisease ? 
Doctor Puiures. As has been stated before to-day, I spent four 
weeks last spring with the inspectors of New York State in the field. 
Both American foul brood and European foul brood are found in 
that State, but practically the same method of treatment is advocated 
by the inspectors for both diseases. Colonies found to be diseased are 
shaken according to the method which has been described several 
times in this meeting. 
In order to save any healthy brood which is found in colonies 
infected with disease, the sealed brood from several colonies, four 
to eight, is piled up in hive bodies above a weak colony which is 
diseased. In seven to ten days all the brood which is worth saving 
will have emerged and the weak colony will have been changed to one 
strong enough to treat. This colony is then treated by the shaking 
method as were the others. There is no necessity of waiting more 
than ten days, for brood which was unsealed when the brood was first 
attacked will scarcely be fed sufficiently to emerge. 
In addition to this treatment, the inspectors recommend the in- 
