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placing, in a clean hive, infested frames, comb, or honey. The im- 

 portance of this fact cannot be emphasized too prominently to the bee- 

 keeper, and should be carefully borne in mind when handling bees. 



Remedies for American Foul Brood: Treatment is best done 

 when honey is abundant, and in the evening. Remove diseased comb, 

 and shake the bees into their own liive, having first placed in the hive 

 clean frames with foundation starters. Let them build comb for four 

 days. On the evening of the fourth day take out the combs which 

 have been started, and which may be partly filled with diseased honey, 

 shake the bees on to new frames with foundation starters, destroying 

 the comb and honey which they first made before other bees have ac- 

 cess to it. This should effect a cure. One's hands should be thor- 

 oughly washed, and the tools used in this work carefully cleaned with 

 boiling hot water or alcohol to prevent contaminating another colony. 

 The hive also should be disinfected previous to inserting the second 

 set of frames with starters, preferably by placing straw in same and 

 burning, slightlv charring the interior. The alighting board and 

 entrance should be disinfected in the same way. All infected honey 

 and comb should be destroyed by burning, at night, to prevent robbing 

 and consequent spread of disease. 



The above is referred to as the McEvoy method, though sub- 

 stantially the same process was in use before it was employed by this 

 gentleman. 



A colony dwindling from the effect of Foul Brood, should be 

 carefully safe-guarded against being robbed, since robbing may be 

 the most prolific cause of spreading the disease. 



If a bee-keeper bears in mind the infectious character of this 

 disease, precautions to be observed in handling diseased colonies will 

 naturally suggest themselves to him. Should he be in doubt as to 

 whether Foul Brood is present, he should send for the State Bee 

 Inspector, whose duty it is to inspect apiaries, notify the owners 

 when Foul Brood is found, and show them how to handle it. 



It may be said, in closing, that the disease known as "European 

 Foul Brood" or "Black Brood" is on the increase, it it claimed, in this 

 countrv and may be in time quite as common as American Foul 

 Brood. 



