begin. Move the hive to be treated back several feet and to one side, 

 placing the new hive with startered frames in its place. Lay a sheet of 

 newspaper in front of the entrance, to shake the bees upon. 



Open the hive, and shake the bees off the frames upon the newspaper 

 in front of the new hive. Place each frame as shaken in the empty hive 

 provided, and keep this hive covered. The remaining bees in the old hive 

 are now to be shaken out; when the treatment will be complete. Carry 

 the old combs and hive away, and store them where no bees can get at 

 the honey. When the bees have all gone into the new hive, a piece of 

 perforated-zinc queen-excluder may be tacked over the entrance to keep 

 the colony from absconding, as the queen cannot pass through the per- 

 forations in the zinc, and the bees will not leave the hive without her. 

 The newspaper must now be burned, as it is probably daubed with some 

 of the diseased honey. Great care should be used so that no honey is 

 left around on hives, tools or clothing, where other bees may get the dis- 

 eased honey. Wash everything clean with water, and cover with dirt 

 any drops of honey on the ground. If no honey is being gathered from 

 the flowers, the bees will have to be fed. In the fall the bees may have 

 to be given full combs of honey from healthy colonies in order to winter 

 them. 



If but one or two colonies are found diseased, the old combs should 

 be burned, as it does not pay to save them. If there is considerable, how- 

 ever, the brood may be saved by stacking it in upper Stories over other 

 diseased colonies till the healthy brood has hatched; then store the 

 combs away, secure from all bees, till the combs can be rendered and the 

 wax and honey saved. The honey may be used for feeding back to the 

 bees after boiling it in a closed vessel for thirty minutes. Sufficient 

 water should be added so that the honey will not burn. Honey from 

 diseased colonies must not be sold without a permit from the state ento- 

 mologist. 



CLEANING THE HIVE. 



The hive bodies, covers and bottoms may be rendered safe for use 

 again by burning out with a gasoline blue-flame torch, or by scraping all 

 bits of wax and propolis from the interior, and thoroughly washing al! 

 honey off the inside and outside of the hives. It is not necessary to burn 

 out with straw or coal oil, if the cleaning of the hive is done very thor- 

 oughly. The frames may be rendered safe by boiling, but they warp 

 badly and it does not pay to save them. 



VIGOR OF A SHAKEN COLONY. 



If the diseased colonies are of good strength and are shaken early in 

 the honey flow, the loss will not be great, as the bees work vigorously, like 

 a new swarm. 



SHAKING IN THE FALL. 



Diseased colonies may be shaken in the fall, and after three days 

 given combs of honey upon which to winter. If the diseased colojiies are 

 weak, several may be united. 



KAPIDITT OF INFECTION. 



Bees are such far-ranging insects, always in search for any sweet 

 thing, that a bit of unguarded honey is quickly carried to the hive of the 

 bee discovering the booty. A honey bottle thrown out with a trifle of 

 honey still remaining is sufficient to spread contagion, if the honey came 

 from a diseased colony. 



Colonies weakened by disease are the first to be robbed by the bees 

 in the neighborhood, and a colony dying of foul brood during the winter 

 will be robbed of its honey when the first warm days of spring arrive. 

 The infection may be spread over a large district -in a few weeks from a 

 few weakened, diseased colonies. The germs are carried in the honey. 

 The disease is only given to a healthy colony through honey from a dis- 

 eased one. 



It is urged upon every owner of bees to learn how to do his own 

 inspecting. Do not wait for the inspector. It is impossible for him to 



