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colony a full comb of healthy hatching brood. If 

 this cannot be done, then burn comb, frames and 

 bees at night, first smothering the bees. 



(3) Have a change of hives, and wash out each week 



(three times will generally suffice) with dilute 

 Izal solution. At the same time saturate the whole 

 of the quilting, by dipping it into a pan of the 

 solution, and place on dripping wet. Continue 

 this once a week until satisfied all is well. 



(4) If required to shake bees off their foul combs, they 



should be sprayed with the solution over-night ; 

 bees, combs, and everything. Next day they may 

 be safely started on foundation in a clean hive. 

 Otherwise the disease may be disposed of by 

 spraying combs, brood, and bees with warm 

 solution two or three times weekly. 



(5) If desired to Feed. — Use medicated syrup. 



(6) The Water Supply. — Use one tea-spoonful of Izal 



to ten pints of water. 



N.B. — It is useless to place combs in a bath of 

 solution ; they must be sprayed with the Izal vaporiser, 

 or the base of the cells will not be reached. Izal solution 

 has been found the only remedy bees do not object to — 

 they are even attracted by it — and this is half the battle 

 in treatment. 



