100 DISEASES. 



stores should at once be so disposed of as to prevent 

 any bees from ever having access to them. 



FOURTH. This driving should positively be done 

 AFTER DARK ; it can either be done out of doors, on 

 a mild, calm evening, or removed inside of a*build- 

 ing, to allow of a light to see to work by. 



This precaution is doubly important ; first, to pre- 

 vent any other bees from getting honey ; second, to 

 prevent the straggling bees from the diseased hive 

 entering others in the vicinity. 



FIFTH. The driven bees are to be confined in 

 the box till one hour before sunset on the following 

 afternoon, when they are to be placed on their orig- 

 inal stand, and the box opened to permit them to fly. 

 After dark, place as much feed within the box (dis- 

 solved sugar is best) as they can consume the fol- 

 lowing day, and again confine them till the following 

 afternoon as before. Now have ready a second box, 

 similar in appearance to the one the bees are in, 

 which is to be put in its place with an aperture open 

 for the bees to enter. 



The box containing the bees is now to be turned 

 bottom up, a few feet in front of its former position, 

 and the bees allowed to take wing and return into 

 the second box. 



They should be disturbed to compel them to fly, 

 and if possible the queen should be found and put in 

 the box. The compelling the bees to fly is to allow 

 them to discharge their filth, which doubtless helps 

 to free them from the virus contained in their bodies. 



