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Mr. DeJong — No ; it is too late now. 

 We intended to go to work £Liid treat 

 them that way twice. In that way 

 they would not carry the honey with 

 them or make amy mess or disturb- 

 ance. 



Dr. Bohrer — I tried that same plan 

 only in a different way. It would be 

 all right if no bees would get through 

 that escape and return, but I had them 

 do that, and they carried the disease. 

 You may treat fifty colonies success- 

 fully, and you may not. 



Mr. DeJong — Suppose the most of 

 them go back, and the next morning 

 you take that old hive off and close 

 it up and set it away? 



Dr. Bohrer — That will do. 



Mr. DeJong — If you put any food 

 down below, it seems to me it would 

 !be drawn down by the queen. Feed 

 them down below. That I think is a 

 better plan than shaking. 



Dr. Bohrer — ^Try it and see. 



Mr. De Jong — The Inspector has 

 power of attorney to act; he has the 

 right to enter any place and they can- 

 not resist him. He has that power 

 under our new law. 



Mr. Huffman — I would like to ask 

 Dr. Phillips if in the shaking process 

 he would recommend full sheets of 

 foundation or starters? 



Dr. Phillips — As I stated in my 

 paper, I recommend starters. 



Dr. Bohrer — Take them away in .two 

 or three days and give them full 

 sheets. 



Dr. Phillips — 'It depends on the 

 wishes of the individual bee-keepers, 

 sometimes bees will build very nice 

 frames of worker comb, and then we 

 leave them. If they get too much 

 drone comb we take that out and give 

 them full sheets of foundation. 



Mr. 'Goddard — We had two cases of 

 infection in our apiary, and we did as 

 the gentleman states, we put an empty 

 hive with starters carefully under the 

 old stand, lifted the old stand right 

 up and slid the new hive under the 

 honey board and Porter escape, and 

 we let it stay there for three days be- 

 fore we took out the starters and put 

 in new sheets of full foundation. We 

 let it stay there till all the brood was 

 hatched and let the brood go down, 

 and kept water in the upper hive in a 

 shallow pan. We have seen yet no 

 signs of foul brood in the lower hive. 



Dr. Bohrer — I believe that is right 

 if the escape is all right. 



Dr. Phillips — I don't like to con- 

 demn the use of a bee escape, be- 

 cause sometimes it is all right, but 

 I think it is a safe statement to make,, 

 that in nine cases out of ten the bee 

 escape is not the thing to use. Bee 

 keepers all over this country that have- 

 been successful in the treatment of 

 American and European foul brood, 

 have not used the bee escape treat- 

 ment. There have been a few men 

 who have made successful treatment 

 with what is known as the Baiarldgfr 

 treatment. If there is anything in 

 shaking energy into bees, we might as 

 well get that benefit. I do not recom- 

 mend the use of bee escapes. I think 

 we can get better results in nine cases 

 out of ten by shaping the bees on to 

 starters or foundation, and I would not 

 recommend anything else. 



Mr., iSyverud — I have tried the Bald- 

 ridge plan, and: I thought I was; care- 

 ful in every detail, but in every in- 

 stance I found the bees would find a 

 way up through either cracks or- 

 crevices in the hive, or get iback 

 through the escape and rob the dis- 

 eased brood or honey, or both, and I 

 have discarded that unless it is very 

 slightly affected. What I like best 

 is to use starters or full sheets, and 

 use a dry extracting comb. The bees 

 will store their diseased honey in 

 there and you can remove it in 24 

 hours, and to be doubly sure, you can 

 replace another dry comb and remove 

 that in 24 or 48 hours, as you like. 

 I think it will be successful. 



Mr, Morgan — ^This method that has 

 just been described is called the 

 Chantry method and differs from the 

 other in that we place it right on the 

 centre of the hive and remove that 

 the next morning after the shaking is 

 done. To make that good, if this 

 honey has not been all disgorged by 

 the bees, a little feeding can be done, 

 and in that way the bees will disgorge 

 the honey that is contained in their 

 systems into this dry comb and take 

 up new honey and also disgorge that 

 in the morning before they go out in 

 the field to work. Then the second 

 morning take out the dry comb and 

 the work is complete, with full sheets 

 of foundation. I have treated a good 

 many this present season that way 

 with perfect success. As Dr. Bohrer 

 has stated, if we wait till we smell 

 the disease, we have almost lost the 

 colonj'. If we are not able to detect 



