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then be removed with the impure wax by scraping or cutting away 
the bottom of the cake. These scrapings should be burned. The 
same disposition had better be made of the frames from which the 
combs containing germs were removed. 
In all of this work the utmost care should be exercised to avoid the 
dripping of honey about the apiary or the exposure of implements, 
receptacles, or combs smeared with or containing honey from the 
diseased colonies. It may even be better, in order to save time and 
possible risk, where but few combs and a comparatively small amount 
of honey are involved, to destroy all of these immediately after their 
removal from the hive. The old hive and all utensils used about the 
diseased colony should be disinfected by washing in a solution of cor- 
rosive sublimate— one-eighth ounce in one gallon of water—and should 
afterwards be exposed to the air and sun for some time. If healthy 
colonies are to be manipulated immediately after handling diseased ones 
the hands of the operator must also be disinfected by washing in the 
solution just mentioned. 
Those who care to try and save combs and brood should employ the 
remedial] method developed by the late Professor Cheshire. This is 
explained in full in his work on bee keeping,? and a brief statement of 
it may also be found in ‘‘ The Honey Bee,” Bulletin No.1, new series, 
of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of Agri- 
culture. Notwithstanding these remedies, some will prefer, where 
healthy colonies of bees can be bought at moderate prices, to burn 
diseased bees, combs, and frames rather than spend time to effect a 
cure, and risk, as they fear they may, the further spread of the pest. 
To kili the bees thus is, however, neither profitable, humane, nor neces- 
sary, for if confined as described above and separated at once from the 
other colonies, this work being done at nightfall, when ail of the bees 
are in their hives, the risk of spreading the disease will not thereby 
be increased, nor is the labor much greater than that involved in the 
removal of combs and bees for burning. And if it be found that the 
diseased colonies are weak in numbers and seem, therefore, individually 
hardly worth saving, this need not be taken as an excuse for the death 
sentence, as several colonies may be smoked and shaken together 
into the same box to make a single strong colony, the best queen of the 
lot having been selected and caged in the box in such a way that the 
workers can release her within a few hours by eating through candy. 
BEE PARALYSIS. 
Among other diseases of a bacterial nature paralysis is most notice- 
able, although not to be dreaded as foul brood. It affects the adult 
bees only, producing’ a paralyzed condition of their members and a 
a** Bees and Bee keeping,’ by Frank R. Cheshire, F. L. 8., F. R. M. 8., London, 
1888, Vol. II, pages 554-575. 
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