Disposal of Infected Materials 

 Too great care cannot be exercised in disposing of infected 

 materials in order to keep them away from healthy bees. 

 All of the products of the infected hive, brood, wax and 

 honey, and the hive furniture, bottom boards, covers, hives, 

 frames and supers may be saved provided their value war- 

 rants a little labor. 



Care of the Brood. 

 Healthy brood in infected combs, provided it will be 

 profitable, may be tiered above a queen-excluding zinc, 

 on a weak colony which is diseased. After a week or ten 

 days all the bees which are worth saving will have emerged. 

 This colony, now strengthened, should be treated. 



Care of Infected Honey. 

 With the general occurrence of brood diseases, and since 

 honey is the important medium in the transmission of brood 

 diseases, it is not safe to feed honey, unless boiled, to 

 bees. Honey from infected colonies is, however, con- 

 sidered wholesome for human consumption. To render 

 honey sterile and safe for feeding it should be diluted with 

 equal parts of water and boiled hard for nearly or quite an 

 hour. Candy for queen cages and feeding should be made 

 from sterilized honey. 



Care of Wax from Infected Colonies. 

 Wax from diseased colonies should be rendered over fire ; 

 the solar wax extractor should not be used. Wax when 

 made into foundation is considered safe. 



Care of the Hive Furniture. 

 All parts of hives in which infected colonies have been 

 should be scraped clean, and the refuse particles of pro- 

 polis and wax burned. Frames and section boxes, being 

 inexpensive, are usually also burned. The inside parts of 

 hives, after being thoroughly scraped, should be sterilized 

 by fire. A gasoline torch is commonly used, but any method 



