How To Control American Foulbrood 19 



end time onto full sheets of foundation. This practically in- 

 sures getting rid of the disease if no outside source of infection 

 exists. 



FIG. 8.— DISEASE WAS^ FORCED, OUT 



This apiarist cured 185 colonies of the disease and later had for sale 

 7,382 pounds of comb honey and 4,750 pounds of extracted hbney. 



Drawn Combs Used With Foundation 



Among Wisconsin beekeepers there is a practice which is 

 more or less doubtful as to success. When the bees are run 

 onto full sheets of foundation, one frame at the side of the 

 hive is left put and an old drawn comb is put in tts place. 

 The idea is that the tees store the hortey they have, brought 

 with -them in this comb and that by removirig it the next or 

 following day the infected honey will all be removed. The 

 very fact that the bees store honey in this comb makes the 

 practice dangerous. No matter how careful a beekeeper maj 

 be, he cannot open the hive and remove the comb without in- 

 citing a number of bees to gorge themselyes with honey from 

 this comb. Thus the period for using up the infected honey 

 carried by the bees at the time of shaking has been reduced 24 

 to 48 hours. By that tjme cells will be sufficiently built out on 

 the foundation for immediate storage of the honey carried 

 from the old comb. 



