NOVEMBER 1, 1914 



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Fig. 4. — The upper frame, by mistake, oontained no' foundation, althougli it was wired. Note tlie 

 drone-cells. The lower frame contained a full sheet of foundation. 



the rear right-hand corner of the hive. If 

 they are only slightly affected they will 

 oftentimes clean up of their own accord 

 during a good honey-fiow. If so, I lemove 

 one cai3, the remaining tag showing that the 

 colony has been diseased but has cleaned up. 

 Such colonies are watched closely; and if 

 disease appears later, as it often will, the 

 second tag is again placed on the hive. 

 After a colony is once diseased one tag 

 always remains on the hive until the colony 

 is treated. In most cases where there is 

 once disease, and they clean up, it will 

 appear again some time. I have had slight- 

 ly diseased colonies that cleaned up and 

 sliowed no signs of disease tlie following- 

 year; but the second year it appeared again 



much worse than the previous time. Of 

 course the blue tags do not tell what year 

 the colony was diseased. That part is taken 

 care of on a record-tag which is nailed on 

 the same corner of the hive, and which will 

 be described in a later article. 



As this has happened time and time 

 again, 1 have given up letting the bees clean 

 up themselves; and if they are only slightly 

 affected, I remove the affected combs, re- 

 placing with foundation. I do this only 

 when there are but a few diseased cells on 

 one or two combs. If more combs are dis- 

 eased, I treat then at once, and put the 

 diseased combs away in a bee-tight room 

 to be melted up later. 



1 formerly burned out tlie hive-body, 



