THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



thing that most beo-keepers never 

 notice. 



TREATING FOUL BROODY COLONIES. 



Where I And the colony weali in 

 lyees, and comb very foul, I put three 

 crosses on the front of the hive; where 

 I find them fair in bees and not very 

 t)adly diseased, I put two crosses on 

 the front of the hives; and where i 

 find them strong in bees and only a 

 few cells of foul brood I put on one 

 cross only. 



When through marking I look at 

 the crosses on the front of the hives, 

 which explain everything, and all that 

 have three crosses on I order the 

 combs to be taken out of these, at sun- 

 down, and the bees of two or more 

 of these bad ones to be shaken into an 

 empty hive, so as to get a big swarm 

 of these old bees to start on, as it does 

 not pay to fuss with a lot of weak 

 colonies at any time of the year when 

 the bees are nearly worn out with age. 

 Have the owners put tvro inches of 

 stiirters on each of five frames during 

 the day, so that they can place them 

 in tlie hive the minute they shake the 

 hees off the old combs. All this work 

 must be done in the evening, and 

 plenty of sugar syrup fed, and kept on 

 the hives, so as to fatten up the bees 

 and get them to make the starters into 

 combs at a rapid rate, and store the 

 balance of the old honey in the new- 

 pieces of coml)S. 



The fourth evening remove the 

 combs made out of the starters, and 

 give full sheets of foundation, and 

 feed abundance of syrup. All Avlth one 

 cross will be strong in bees, and you 

 can treat these without uniting with 

 others; and all that are not real strong 

 In old bees can be united later. 



BEWARE OF OLD COMBS. 



Don't agree or consent to the saving 

 of any old comb that ever had brood 

 reared in it, because if you do, some 



of these men will never get rid of the 

 disease. 



All sections with combs in, and all 

 white combs that never had any brood 

 in, can be saved, if clean of honey, or 

 given to the bees in the evenings to 

 clean up before the diseased colonies 

 are treated, but in no case should 

 these white combs be given to cleaned 

 bees if they contain any honey. 



Use plenty of smoke at all times, 

 and an abundance of sugar syrup in 

 each and every case where bees will 

 take it. It pays well to fatten up the 

 bees for business at any time, except 

 in very early spring. 



In all places where you find foul 

 brood, order every old comb destroyed 

 at once, or the people will keep using 

 some old combs that contain only a 

 cell or two of the remains of old dried 

 foul brood that is not noticed, and in 

 time the bees will store honey in these 

 feAV diseased cells, and from such 

 cells feed the diseased honey to larvae, 

 and thus start the trouble again. Urge 

 the destruction of every old comb at 

 all times and in all places, and go 

 dead against any drug folly. 



GETTING RID OF FOUL BROOD LATE IN 



THE SEASON. 



Warn well against the old combs 

 and you will make sure M'ork of the dis- 

 (-ase. Where you find only a few cells 

 in a strong colony, and the owner a 

 good bee-keeper, and careful man, 

 get him to feed his sound colonies un- 

 til they seal their combs right down to 

 the bottom, and just before going mto 

 real cold weather, take the combs out 

 of the hive that has the few foul cells 

 and from the sound colonies that were 

 fed till the combs were sealed take 

 enough of sealed combs to fit up the 

 one from which you' took all of the 

 combs out. 



Queens are done laying then, cold 

 weather Is against their starting anj^ 



