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them full of sutrar syrup, aud put them on 

 the frames in lln' t'reuiiKjs: by doiii^; that 

 the bees will rush into the feed, soon work 

 out the starters, and store the foul ho'ey in 

 them that they took from the foul-broody 

 combs when you removed them. 



The fourth evening, when you go to re- 

 move these nice white combs (and see what 

 a lot of combs the bees made in such a 

 short time in the honey-fiow, or by boom- 

 ing them with with sugar syrup), don't 

 leave them in, thinking it all right because 

 they look so pretty. You inust renuyve 

 these new covdm that were Intilt in the four 

 Jays because they ivill have the deadly hon- 

 ey in them, and yon must melt them into 

 vax. 



When you remove the old. foul combs, if 

 they are very bad make wax of them at once; 

 but if your colonies have only a little foul- 

 brood in them, and a large quantity of good 

 brood, you can make it pay to save it, if 

 you are a careful man, by following the 

 the directions I gave in mv last article. 



Some of yon will say. ' I have no sugar. 

 Can't I feed the honey from the foul combs 

 if I heat it ? ' Yes, you can if you will 

 mind me: but I do hate to trust|vou, because 

 I know how careless you are. If you are de- 

 termined to feed that honey from the foul 

 broody combs, put in about half water in 

 in it, and bring it to a shari> boil before you 

 feed it. I never advif e the feeding of foul 

 honey, heated by men of no experience, he- 

 cause it is too deadly a thing for greenhorns 

 to tamper with. 



In localities where little or no honey is 

 being gathered V>y the bees when they are 

 put on foundation starters, they will in 

 some cases swarm out if the queens are not 

 caged. Cage all the queens, and keep thera 

 caged while on the starters, and for two 

 days after they are put on the full sheets 

 of foundation, to prevent swarming'^out: 

 and feed an abundance in the evening: by 

 doing that, all will work like clock-work. 



Now, farmers, I heg of you to mind me. 

 and do not put off this work until some 

 mornint' when your crops are so wet that 

 yon can't do any thing else, and then go 

 and stand with your two feet right in front 

 of the entrance to the hives, and then com- 

 mence removing the combs and shaking 

 part of the bees in the the hive and the rest 

 on the ground, thus causing the bees to mix 

 into every colony in your bee-yard, to ruin 

 all. 



If yon have the disease in 10 or VJ colonies, 

 don't tinker with them and lose all by do- 

 ing one or two in a week, and then in a 

 week after doing two more, and then scat- 

 ter the bees about so that they rush into 

 the cured ones that you did the week be- 

 fore, and thn« g<^t the disease back into 

 them again. Do the whole 10 or V2 in one 

 evening. If you can't do that, don't be 

 more than twi evenings at a small lot like 

 thnt. 



Burn all frames as soon as yon cut the 

 combs ftut of them, because it won't pay 

 yon to waste valuable time in scalding and 

 fn«singwith old, daubed frames, when nice 

 new ones are so cheap. Make wax of the 



combs just as soon as you cnt them out of 

 the frames. 



If your apiary is badly diseased, don't, 

 under any consideration, save even one 

 comb either in or out of your hives. Re- 

 member if you do, it will start the disease 

 again. 



Don't waste your time in boiling, scald- 

 ing, disinfecting any empty hive that had 

 foul brood in it; the empty hives are per- 

 fectly safe to use in any way you wish with- 

 out doing anything with them. I saved 

 many wood-piles, and the people from a 

 world of labor, by forbidding the boiling 

 and the disinfecting of empty hives that 

 foul brood has been in. 



While on my rounds through Ontario the 

 first summer, I found the bee-keepers 

 everywhere ready, and very anxious, to 

 boil and disinfect all empty hives that foul 

 brood had been in. I could have very easily 

 traded upon the ignorance of the people, 

 by advising them to do so, which would 

 hKve been a very unjust thing forjme to dr. 

 — to cause the bee keepers a terrible lot 

 more work, and waste their valuable time 

 and wood-piles, in boiling empty hives that 

 foul brood had been in. I had jiot the 

 heart to do it, and looked on it as little 

 short of crime on my part, if I did not for- 

 bid it. I forbade it everywhere, and the 

 people are loud in my praise for saving 

 them from a lot of useless work. I always 

 told the bee- keepers that there was no more 

 reason for for scalding empty hives than 

 there was for scalding the bees that were 

 full of the deadly honey when they were put 

 into the hives after the rotten combs were 

 removed." 



There are two points upon which Mr. Mc- 

 Evoy differs with most excellent anthoii- 

 ties in the matter of treating foul brood; 

 and those are the boiling or disinfecting of 

 the hives, and of allowing the bees to bnild 

 combs four days and then cutting them out 

 and giving thera sheets cf foundation. 

 There are quite a number of other points 

 involved in the consideration of these two. 

 Quite a number of good bee-keepers 

 have tried to get rid of foul brood without 

 disinfecting the hives, only to see it reap- 

 pear, when the same treatment in new or 

 disinfected hives brought success. There is 

 no question whatever on this point. It is 

 possible that a hive that had not been long 

 in use, one to which no attachments of comb 

 had been made, would he entirely free from 

 contamination: hut it often happens that 

 brace combs are built between the frames 

 or combs and the sides of the hive, and 

 when the combs are taken out there will be 

 several patches of honey adhering to the 

 sides of the hive. Such a hive as this must 

 certainly be most thoroughly cleansed. 

 Either the honey mu.st be ALL removed, or 



