DECEMBER 15, 1913 



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Fig. 14. — Arthur F. Hodgson's ventilated bee-escape board; heavy wire 

 cloth is substituted for the thin board, and two escapes are used. 



is known; but wandering over sunny France 

 and fertile Italy with our Mr. Herrod, I, 

 too, have had the same experience, the same 

 open-hearted fraternal welcome. The fact 

 of being a beekeeper was sufficient. The 

 w'ord was an " open sesame " to the hearts 

 and welcomes of other brothers of the craft ; 

 ay, it was even a kej' to the knowledge of 

 our hosts; for what beekeeper keeps his 

 experiences locked within himself? "We 

 have no trade secrets. Your paper and 

 every bee-paper in the world teems with 

 enquiries from correspondents, neophytes, 

 who would learn their faith, and you are 

 pleased to teach them the A B C of Bee 

 Culture, so that some day they may arrive 

 at the X Y Z of perfect apiculture. 

 London, England. 



there is danger of get- 

 ting some of this in the 

 next comb that is drawn 

 out. 



My plan is to shake 

 all the bees and queens 

 into any kind of box of 

 fair size (or a hive- 

 body) having a pWm 

 cover the same size. On 

 both sides of the cover 

 board I tack two-inch 

 starters by means of 

 small nails and thin 

 strips of wood, which 

 starters a^re somewhat 

 shorter than the length 

 of the cover so that the 

 bees will not stick them 

 fast to the ends of the 

 box. I put seven or eight 

 starters on each side of 

 this cover. 



This cover prepared 

 with starters on both 

 sides I place over the 

 box, and for the pur- 

 pose of protecting the 

 starters on the ujDper side I put an emj^tj^ 

 super over it with a regular hive-cover on it. 

 After the bees have been drawing out the 

 foundation for three or four days I lift off 

 the empty super and set it to one side, take 

 up the cover with the bees, and give a quick 

 shake, dislodging all the bees with one jerk. 

 Then I turn the cover over, thus giving the 



A NEW METHOD OF SHAKING TO CURE FOUL 

 BROOD 



The McEvoy Plan Simplified ; Inducing the Bees to 



Use up all Diseased Honey by Building Combs 



on Starters Attached to the Cover 



BY W. A. BAESTOW 



In treating foul brood when bees are 

 shaken on to starters of comb foundation in 

 regular frames these frames have to be 

 shaken later on, one at a time, and this gives 

 the bees on the last few frames a chance to 

 eat some of the infected honey that possibly 

 may be stored in the new combs built, and 



Barstow's method of providing starters for the 

 bees to work on when being treated for foul brood. 

 A quick jar dislodges all the bees at once. 



