PRACTICAL BEEKEEPING 15 
ed will soon dwindle to nothing and so exterminate the pest. 
Another bacterial disease of a more serious nature commonly 
called four brood is the bacillus of the hive. Its common name 
arises from the symptoms which are readily noticeable in the Drood. 
The latter becomes dark and in the case of sealed brood if the 
stinken caps are removed the larvae or pupae in a dead condition are 
putrid, have a strong odor and are of a stringy or ropy consistency. 
The simplest remedy for the disease which is very contagious, is 
te shake the bees from the diseased colony into a box just at night- 
tall, when they are all in. The combs and honey may -hen be des- 
troyed by burning and the hive disinfected by washing with cor- 
rosive sublimate made by adding one eighth of an ounce to each 
gallon of water. This same disinfectant may be used on tools and 
also on the hands after handling the diseased colony. The bees con- 
fined for two day in a dark place may be now fed a half pint to a 
pint of medicated syrup each day for two or three days. This syrup 
is prepared by adding one part of carbolic acid to six hundred parts 
of sugar syrup. Honey may be used if available. At the end of 
the fourth or fifth day the bees may be taken out and shaken into a 
hive provided with starters set up a little apart from the other bees. 
Should there be considerable brood from several colonies it may 
be placed over one affected colony until the young bees have emerg- 
ed and then the combs may be melted up for wax by boiling for 
several hours in hot water. The bits of comb built by the bees dur- 
ing confinement should be treated similarly. The wax on cooling 
should have the settlings containing any possible spores burned. 
Bees thus treated almost always can be cured. As far as we know 
there have been no cases of this malady in the state, and, in fact, it 
is not a very common disease, the writer never having met with an 
actual case in his experience. 
