214 DISEASES AND ENEMIES OF BEES 
One of the best methods of treatment is to remove the queen 
very carefully, disturbing the bees as little as possible. The hive 
should then be tightly closed with the exception of a bee escape, 
which will permit the bees to go out but give none a chance to 
return. Take a frame of healthy brood from some other colony 
and place in a clean hive. Fill the remainder of the hive with 
full sheets of foundation or empty combs and place it where the 
colony has stood. The queen may then be placed on the frame of 
brood and the new hive left with the entrance somewhat smaller 
than usual. Turn the hive containing the diseased colony around 
so that the escape will be near the entrance of the new hive. The 
bees leaving the hive go to the fields with their honey sacs empty 
and returning enter the clean hive. As fast as the brood hatches 
in the old hive the bees will leave only to find no way of return 
and enter the clean hive in which the old queen is at work as 
usual. This method has the advantage of saving the colony 
without loss of brood or checking the laying of the queen. If 
properly done this is perhaps the best method of dealing with 
American foul brood. Some bee-keepers advocate setting the 
diseased colony on top of the clean hive with the bee-escape board 
underneath and the old queen left in the brood chamber. By 
this method the bees will rear a young queen from the brood in 
the frame given them in the clean hive while the old queen con- 
tinues to lay in the diseased chamher above until she is finally 
deserted hy the workers. 
Late-Season Cases.—When a case of foul brood is found 
in fall after the honey flow is over, it is seldom advisable to 
attempt to winter the colony. In general it may be said that 
treatment is not likely to be successful, excepting when there is 
some honev coming from the fields or will be later in the season. 
Tf cases are treated ahead of the honey flow, the lack of a flow 
ean be met by heavy feeding to stimulate the building of combs. 
Tf the bees get well started in this way they will recover nicely 
during the honey flow that follows later on. After the flow is 
over in the fall it would cost more than they are worth to feed 
