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starters are given instead. Having no young to 

 feed, the bees use all the infected honey in their 

 stomachs for making comb. At the end of the 

 fourth day all this comb is removed and new- 

 frames with foundation are substituted, and the 

 deed is done. 



Mr. Root's practice is to remove the hive from its 

 stand about dark, to prevent robbing, and put 

 another just like it in its place which contains 

 frames filled with foundation. The bees are shaken 

 from the infected hive into the new one. Here they 

 are shut in without food for three or four days, thus 

 being compelled to use all the honey in their honey 

 sacs. Then they are fed and the disease does not 

 appear again in colonies thus treated. Mr. Root 

 burns all the infected comb and frames and dis- 

 infects the hives with hot water before they are 

 used again; other apiarists of experience support 

 Mr. Root in this matter. Fumigating the hives with 

 burning brimstone would perhaps be an easier or a 

 surer way of disinfecting the hives. 



Many apiarists who do a large business do not 

 destroy the infected comb, but render it in a steam 

 wax press. They also thin the infected honey and 

 boil it for two hours, adding to it a little salicylic 

 acid, and use it to feed back to the bees. But this 

 would hardly pay, unless great care were taken, as 

 one drop of the infected honey would start the 

 disease anew. 



Some have tried medicated syrup as a remedy. 

 It is true that syrup made with salicylic acid or beta- 



