DISEASES AND ENEMIES OF BEES 



acid, and formaldehyde, but the results were 

 in no sense satisfactory. 



William McEvoy of Woodburn, Ontario, 

 Canada, claims to have had great success in 

 the treatment of thousands of colonies, and he 

 puts them back into the hives out of which 

 they came; but there have been a large num- 

 ber of cases where the disease has appeared 

 again in the hives whose bodies and fixtures 

 were not disinfected. His plan is to take the 

 infected colony in the height of the honey sea- 

 son, and in the evening shake the bees from 

 their infected combs into their old hive, 

 giving them frames with foundation starters, 

 and let them work on them for four days. 

 The bees will in that time have worked out 

 some comb, and have stored in it all the dis- 

 eased honey they carried in their sacs from 

 the diseased combs, and then in the evening 

 of the fourth day, he takes the new combs out 

 and shakes the bees on new frames of founda- 

 tion; and he claims that the cure will be 

 complete as all the infected combs with their 

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