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If a honey flow is on so that there is no danger from the spread of 
the infection by robbing, the diseased colony or colonies should be 
at once by shaking. This is done in the folowing manner: 
Prepare a clean hive containing new frames with strips of foundation 
about 14 inch wide. Set this hive on the old stand, having previously 
moved the old hive away a foot or two to one side so that it is within 
easy reach. If the bees are to be shaken directly into the new hive 
from the top, some of the central frames with starters should be taken 
out to make a clear space into which the old frames covered with bees 
can be lowered. Each frame from the old hive is to be taken out 
separately, lowered into the new hive as above stated and given several 
vigorous up and down shakes to dislodge all of the bees. A third 
empty hive body should be near at hand to receive the old frames as 
fast as the bees have been dislodged. Both the old hive from which 
frames with bees are being taken, and the third hive body into which 
they are placed after shaking should be provided with close fitting 
covers and bottoms, and closed entrances so that no robber bees may 
enter to carry away infected material. After all the bees are shaken 
into the new hive, put in the remaining new frames previously removed 
to make space for shaking. Close the hive and put a queen trap at the 
entrance to prevent the colony from swarming out. Bees on being 
shaken into a hive provided only with starters without comb, eggs or 
brood sometimes leave. The excluder is intended to prevent this. 
Alley’s queen and drone trap (Fig. 20) is suitable for this purpose. The 
bees are not to be given any food for 48 hours and not even then if 
honey is coming in from the field. 
There is nearly always a little unsealed honey in the combs, a part of 
which will be shaken out into the hive. This can be left, as it is con- 
cealed from would-be-robbers when the hive is closed at the end of the 
shaking. A slight modification may be suggested here. If the honey 
flow is heavy so that a large amount of honey is shaken out it is better 
to shake the bees at the entrance on a run-way board inclined at a gen- 
tle slope. This may be covered with paper and the soiled paper de- 
stroved later. 
If there is considerable brood in the old infected combs it can be 
saved by placing the frames over a weak diseased colony. This allows 
the young bees which emerge to go below, thus strengthening the 
colony, which later is treated also, as just described. In case it is not 
desirable to save the brood, all of the old infected combs can be car- 
ried to the honey house and rendered into wax as soon as possible. 
This can be done by thoroughly boiling in hot water. To secure all of 
the wax the slumgum or debris remaining after bciling should after- 
wards be run through a wax press. 
It is rarely advisable to try to savé the honey yet if this is desired it 
should first be extracted. Honey thus obtained from old infected 
combs must be diluted with about an equal amount of water, and boiled 
in a closed vessel directly over the flame for one hour. Heating in one 
receptacle set inside of another containing boiling water is not safe as 
the spores will not be killed. It will be readily understood that this 
honey can be used for no other purpose than feeding back to the bees 
