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laws. It is repeated here simply to show that the essentials 

 can be stated in a few words. 



Modification of Meiliod.—li the bee-keeper does not give the 

 second shaking at the end of four days he should watch very 

 carefully to see that the disease does not again appear. There are 

 a number of modifications of this method of treatment, each of 

 which has advantages apparent to those who follow it. Thomas 

 Chantry inserts a dry extracting comb in the center of the hive 

 on which the bees are shaken and about twenty-four hours later 

 very carefully removes this comb. In the meantime the bees will 

 have used the empty comb to deposit the honey that they may 

 have carried with them. This is much- to be preferred to the 

 second shaking as it saves a heavy loss in wax secretion and conse- 

 quent tax on the bees which are badly used at best. Edward G. 

 Brown, of Iowa, who is a large honey producer, has used this 

 method successfully for a number of years and recommends it 

 as very satisfactory if carefully done. 



D. E. Lhommedieu, another Iowa bee-keeper of long experi- 

 ence, shakes the bees into a clean hive and leaves them for four 

 days or until he is sure that all old honey carried with them has 

 been consumed. He then takes combs of brood and honey from 

 healthy colonies and places them in a clean hive and puts this 

 on the stand where the diseased colony has been. Feeling that 

 the bees have rid themselves of the infection, he proceeds to shake 

 the bees into the new hive containing the brood and they are thus 

 saved the heavy tax of building up from the beginning. 



The object is to rid the bees of every trace of the diseased 

 honey before the new brood appears in the hive and any method 

 that will accomplish this result is likely to succeed. 



When a number of colonies are to be shaken, it is well to 

 replace the frames of brood in the old hives and to pile one above 

 another on top of some diseased colony which may be reserved 

 for treatment for a few days, until the healthy brood is hatched, 

 and thus save what healthy brood there is in all the hives. This 

 plan has been carried out very successfully in some apiaries. 



