TREATMENT OF AMERICAN FOUL BROOD 213 
laws. It is repeated here simply to show that the essentials 
can be stated in a few words. 
Modification of Method.—If 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. Lhommedien, 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. 
