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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



Julif 



after cutting out the unsealed comb, 

 uncap the sealed honey, extract it, 

 aud bring it to a boil. 



All the foul combs, aud the new 

 combs that were built in the four 

 days, must be made into wax, and the 

 dross from the wax extractor, must he 

 buried, because what runs with the 

 wax would not be heated enough to 

 kill the spores, and if it was thrown 

 out where the bees could get at it, it 

 would start the disease again. 



When the diseased brood that was 

 placed in the two-story hive is hatcht 

 and the bees are give full sheets of 

 foundation, then they should at once 

 be given a queen-cell ready to hatch 

 out, or a young queen; then every- 

 thing will be all right. 



The empty hives need no boiling, 

 scalding or disinfecting in any way, 

 and are perfectly safe to use , no mat- 

 ter how bad the disease may have 

 been in them ; aud I have always got 

 the curing done in the same hives. 

 But as the frames get more or 

 less daubed with the diseased honey 

 when the combs are cut out of them, 

 I always order the frames burned as 

 soon as the combs are cut out, because 

 it doesn't pay to waste valuable time 

 fussing and cleaning old frames when 

 new, nice ones are so cheap. 



Where an apiary is diseased so badly 

 that the colonies have become weak 

 then all the combs both in and out of 

 the hives, should be made into wax at 

 once, and all the colonies d(jubled up 

 at the same time, as it w^on't pay any 

 person to waste time with weak col- 

 onies. 



In some bee-yards 1 have put three 

 and four colonies in one, to get fair- 

 sized colonies to start on. 



When the curing is to be done be- 



fore or after the honey season, the 

 greatest caution is to be used so as not 

 start robbing. The curing can be done 

 just as well before as after the honey 

 season by feeding plenty of sugar 

 syrup in the' evenings, so the bees 

 will work out the starters of found- 

 ation, and store the diseased honey in 

 them, that they took from the old, de- 

 ceased combs; and when the new 

 combs are removed the fourth even- 

 ing, and the foundation given, the 

 feeding must be continued to get 

 foundation worked out and filled with 

 plenty of good stores for winter. 



When I find apiaries of foul brood 

 at the close of the honey season, I get 

 the queens caged in all the weakest 

 colonies for about ten days, so that no 

 brood can be started to become foul. 

 I then get the owners to take the 

 brood out of the strong colonies and 

 tier it up on the weak colonies with 

 the caged queens. Then give the 

 colonies starters as soon as the combs 

 are removed and feed sugar syrup in 

 the evenings for four days; then re- 

 move the starters for foundation. 

 Then at the end of ten days get all 

 the combs taken from the weak colo- 

 nies that have the caged queens, and 

 shake the bees into a single hive, give 

 starters of foundation, let the queens 

 out of the cages, and feed sugar syrup 

 in the evenings and remove the new 

 combs the fourth evening for full 

 sheets of foundation, and continue the 

 feeding until all is in good condition. 

 The colonies that were weak when the 

 brood of other colonies was tiered up 

 on them will be very strong from the 

 quantity of bees hatched out during 

 the ten days. 



1 have to use considerable judgment 

 in curing many foul-broody apiaries, 



