1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



199 



raentioned to the shaking off herein 

 described. 



To those not experienced, and wlio 

 have no escapes, the hints here given 

 may be of some value. In a small 

 apiary the bee keepers can readily do 

 all this work where his time is nearly 

 all devoted to his bees. 



The use of a great amount of smoke 

 in handling bees should be avoided. 

 A little at a' time is usually sufficient. 

 A great amount of smoke will injure 

 the flavor of the honey. With es- 

 capes, very little if any need be blown 

 on the combs when extracting, which 

 is another point in favor of their use. 



Milledgeville, 111. 



(From American Bee Journal). 



HOW 



TO CURE FOUL 

 AMOWG BEES. 



BROOD 



BY WM. M'EVOY. 



Official Foul Brood Inspector for Ontario, Can. 



The disease has destroyed hundreds 

 of apiaries at all times, in almost 

 every land where bees have been kept 

 and it is today making its deadly 

 march unchecked through the bee 

 yards of the world. 



For 17 years I have warned the 

 bee-keepers to keep all dead and put- 

 rid matter out of their colonies, so as 

 not to cause foul brood, and while I 

 have been warning and holding up 

 Death's head and the cro.^s-bones, the 

 professional guessers, who were not 

 practical bee-keepers, have been en- 

 couraging the wholesale spread of the 

 disease by saying thai rotten brood in 

 hives of Ijees would not cause foul 

 brood. Such teaching a.s that has 

 caused thou.-auds of bee-keepers to be 

 very careless, aud when the disease 

 has broken out in their bee-yards, it 



was left to run its course to the ruin 

 of their apiaries, and all others in the 

 same localities. It is only the very 

 few among many thousands of bee- 

 keepers that have succeeded in curing 

 their apiaries of foul brood after it 

 got a good start in their bee yards, 

 and the owners left to themselves to 

 manage the curing-. 



I will now give my methods of cur- 

 ing foul brood, which cannot fail 

 when followed exactly as I order. 



In the honey season, when the bees 

 are gathering honey freely, remove 

 the combs, and shake the bees back 

 into their own hives in the evening; 

 give comb foundation starters, and 

 let them build combs for four days. 

 In the evening of the fourth day, re- 

 move the comb, and give foundation 

 to work out, and then the cure will be 

 complete. Fill and empty two-story 

 hive with the combs of foul brood 

 that have been removed from two or 

 more diseased colonies, close them up 

 for two days, and shade them from 

 the sun ; after that open the entrance, 

 and when most of the brood is hatcht, 

 remove those combs, and give the 

 bees starters of foundation in a single 

 hive, and let them build combs for 

 four days. Then in the evening of 

 the fourth day, take out those new 

 combs, and give them foundation to 

 work out. 



Let it be remembered that all of 

 these operations should be done in 

 the evening, so that the bees will be- 

 come settled down nicely before morn- 

 ing. 



Before extracting from the diseased 

 combs, all the combs that were not 

 sealed must he cut out of the frame, or 

 some of the decayed brood will be 

 thrown out with the houev. Then 



