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comb in which the queen can lay eggs and 

 in this interval they consume all of the 

 diseased honey which they brought with 

 them and the new brood, when it does ap- 

 pear, is fed with fresh honey recently 

 gathered from the fields. The combs 

 from the diseased colony which we so 

 carefully protected by placing them in a 

 tight box may be disposed of later. If 

 only a few colonies are diseased the best 

 thing to do is to burn the entire combs, 

 frames and all. The hive body may be 

 rendered perfectly safe for use by burn- 

 ing it out vsdth a gasoline blow torch or by 

 scorching the inside with burning gaso- 

 line so as to scorch the wood to a slight 

 extent. 



If many hives are involved in the treat- 

 ment, the diseased brood frames may be 

 placed in hive bodies and tiered up over 

 some weak colony until the brood hatches. 

 |(Not all the brood is diseased of course, 

 some of it is normal and will hatch.) In 

 this way a weak colony may be built up 



