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fitted with two ventilating holes, stop up one; if it has no 

 such holes, make one about four inches in diameter, a little in 

 front of the centre of the floor-board, and cover it on the uppei 

 side with perforated zinc (Fig. 4). Remove the hive from the 

 floor-board ; place the floor-board on bricks or other supports at 

 a sufficient height to permit of the fumigator being placed 

 under it ; then on the floor-board place a spare body-box of the 

 same size as the one in use, and on this replace the hive, fitting 

 the body-box of the diseased hive on the top of the spare body- 

 box and pasting a strip of brown paper over their points of con- 

 tact (Fig. 51). If section crates are in use, leave them on ; if 

 no such crates are on, put on two, containing sections filled 

 with strips of brown paper in lieu of foundation. Eemove 

 all covering except one light quilt, and leave the roof 

 on. Make the hive entrance air-tight by packing. Now 

 put one formalin tablet in the fumigator receptacle. See 

 that there is a good supply of methylated spirit in the lamp 

 receiver, and that the lamp wick is regulated to give a fairly 

 strong" flame. Next, place the fumigator in position under, 

 and closely wedged against the floor-board hole , so that all the 

 fumes shall pass into the hive. Use white lead or putty to 

 make an air-tight connection between the lamp and the floor- 

 board ; then light the lamp and let it burn for five minutes, 

 after which extinguish it. When it is noticed that the formalin 

 fumes are coming out through the roof cones and ventilator, 

 these should all be made air-tight by covering them with white 

 lead or putty. Leave the hive thus for six hours, then open 

 the door and all ventilators, and replace the hive in its normal 

 condition. Next saturate the floor-board with about half a gill 

 of a solution of 1 part of formalin to 7 parts water ; then find 

 the queen, and place her with three new frames of empty drawn 

 comb and as many bees from the hive as will cover them, behind 

 an excluder dummy ; if there are no frames of empty drawn 

 comb, give two frames of foundation. Remove any frames 

 having no brood, and either burn them, comb and all, or if pre- 

 ferred, the honey in them may be used for human food, and 

 the comb may be melted down for wax, but the frames should 

 be burnt or disinfected as hereafter explained. The hive dummy 

 should be placed at the back of all frames, or it may be removed 

 altogether if room is required. After about ten days, re-saturate 

 the floor-cloth with formalin solution, and if room permits, give 

 another frame of foundation to the queen if it is required. Then 

 leave the bees until twenty -one days have expired from the date 

 of disinfecting the hive ; in this period all healthy brood should 

 have hatched out of the front brood frames. When the hatch- 

 ing of the brood has taken place , remove all the frames that are 

 in front of the excluder dummy, shaking the bees off each frame 

 when doing so ; re-saturate the floor-board cloth, take away the 

 excluder dummy , and move forward the frames that were behind 

 the excluder, adding one or two frames of foundation in the 

 centre, if the bees are too crowded on the frames they have ; 

 then work up the stock to get it as strong as possible, always 



