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The McEvoy Treatment. 



It may be mentioned that Mr. McEvoy is Foul Brood Inspector 

 of Ontario, Canada, and has the credit of having had a wider 

 experience in the treatment of "foul brood" than any man living. 

 He says, " In the honey season, when the bees are gathering freely, 

 remove the combs in the evening, and shake the bees into their own. 

 hive. Give them frames with comb-foundation starters on, and let 

 them build combs for four days. The bees will make the starters 

 into comb during the four days and store the diseased honey in 

 them whicii they carried from the old combs. Then in the evening 

 of the fourth day take out the new combs and give them, comb- 

 foundation [Full sheets — I. H.] to work out, ami then the cure 

 will be complete." 



He further adds, " Bv this method of treatment all the diseased; 

 honey is removed from the bees before the full sheets of foundation- 

 are worked out. Where you find a large quantity of nice brood with, 

 only a few cells of ' foul brood' in the most of your colonies, and 

 have shaken the bees off for treatment, fill two hives full with these 

 combs of brood, and then place one hive of brood on the other, and 

 shade this tiered-up brood from the sun until the most of it has 

 hatched ; then, in the evening, shake these bees into a single hive- 

 and give them frames with comb-foundation starters on and let 

 them build comb for four days ; then, in the evening of the fourth 

 day, take out the new comb and give them comb-foundation to 

 work out to complete the cures. After the brood is hatched out of 

 the old combs the latter must be made into wax or burned, together 

 with all the new combs made out of starters during the four days, 

 on account of the diseased honey that would be stored in them. 

 All the curing or treating of diseased colonies should 

 be done in the evening, so as not to have any robbing, or cause any 

 bees from the diseased colonies to mix and go in with the bees of 

 sound colonies." 



It will be noticed that Mr. McEvoy says nothing about confinitig 

 the bees to the hive during the first process as in Jones's plan, nor 

 does he advocate giving a clean hive or disinfecting the old one, 

 which most beekeepers consider a very necessary precaution to 

 take. 



While on my rounds I examined a colony at an apiary in Hawke's 

 Bay, on the 17th February last, which had been badly infected with 

 disease and treated in the previous November, and out of some thirtv- 

 two colonies in the same apiary it was certainly one of the strongest 

 when I saw it. Instead, however, of following the McEvoy plan 

 closely, the bees were shaken off the frames down in front of a clean, 



