8 FOUL BROOD. 



the bees frames with comb foundation starters on. Then also in the 

 evening feed the bees plenty of sugar syrup, and they will drawout the 

 foundation and store the diseased honey which they took with them from 

 the old combs; in the fourth evening remove the new combs made out 

 of the starters and give the bees full sheets of comb foundation and feed 

 plenty of sugar syrup each evening until every colony is in first-class 

 order. Make the syrup out of granulated sugar and put one pound of 

 water to every two pounds of sugar and then bring it to a boil. As 

 previously stated, all the old combs must be burned or made into wax 

 when removed from the hive, and so must all the new combs made dur- 

 ing the four days. No colony is cured of foul brood by the use of any 

 drug. All the old combs must be removed from every diseased colony 

 and the hive got away from the bees before the brood rearing is com- 

 menced in the new clean combs." 



N. E. France, inspector of apiaries of Wisconsin, says, "All the differ- 

 ence from the McEvoy treatment that I practice, I dig a deep pit on 

 level ground near diseased apiary, and after getting a fire in the pit, 

 such diseased combs, frames, etc., as are to be burned, are burned in this 

 pit in the evening and the fresh earth from the pit returned to cover 

 all from sight. If diseased combs with honey in are burned on surface 

 of soil there is great danger the melted honey will run on the soil and in 

 the morning the robber bees will be busy taking home the diseased 

 honey. 



''Also I cage the queen while bees are on the six or eight strips of 

 comb foundation, to prevent any swarming or deserting." 



The equipment necessary for the McEvoy treatment is a large canvas 

 or sheet, a broad pail partly filled with the corrosive sublimate solu- 

 tion, a sponge or rag, a bee brush similar to a Cogshall, a screw driver, 

 or some other tool for prying the frame loose, and a set of frames 

 containing only starters of foundation. The only time of day suited 

 to the treatment is toward evening, when the bees have ceased flying 

 to and from the fields. A bright moonlight night answers the 

 purpose if many colonies are to be treated, though the bees are perhaps 

 more easily handled just at dusk than in the moonlight. At this time 

 we have little to fear from robbers or from infected bees flying to healthy 

 colonies. 



The method of procedure is about as follows: 



Spread the canvas over the old stand, place the hive on the canvas. 

 Gently shake the bees off the old combs into the hive, and brush all the 

 bees of the old combs into the hive body. Eemove the hive from the can- 

 vas, which should be gathered up by the corners in order to allow the 

 bees to be shaken from it into the hive; then add the frames of founda- 

 tion starters. Be sure that every bee is secured and placed in the hive for 

 a single escaping bee might fly to a neighboring hive and infect the 

 colony. 



During the whole operation care must be exercised to prevent rob- 

 bing. Before the work is done, all scattering drops of honey must be 

 removed by washing with the corrosive sublimate and all bits of comb 

 must be picked up. Never let one drop of honey get away to infect 

 other colonies. 



When you have a set of combs partly full of honey, it seems a sin to 

 destroy them but unless you have upwards of ten colonies to treat it 



