TREATMENT FOB BEE DISEASES. 63 



Mr. Smith, [f you wait till evening you will never gel through. 



Mr. Mi in. !)<> you use smoke in thai operation? 



M r. Sm 1111. I use no smoke. 



Mr. M i i ii. I low long do you keep t he bees on the strips of Pound a 

 t ion : do you feed t hem right away \ 



Mr. Smith. Yes. 



Mr. Mi in. You don't believe in starving them :ii all? 



Mr. Smith. No, because the bees coming from the fields are loaded 

 w n Ii honey. 



Mr. Mi ru. Do I understand that the bees have these bacteria all 

 over them \ 



Doctor Phillips. Yes; they have the contamination on them. 

 When they are shaken they of course have it all over them, and when 

 they arc shaken off they doubtless take the bacteria with them. 



The McEvoy system is the radical treatment of shaking twice, which 

 the majority of bee keepers do not use. 



Mr. York. If 1 mistake not, Mr. McEvoy recommends the second 

 shaking. 



Doctor Phillips. He recommends the second shaking after the bees 

 begin to drop from starvation. 



Question. What do you do with the unhatched brood in the infected 

 hive? 



Mr. Smith. My recommendation is to destroy the whole thing. 



EFFECT OF REQTJEENING ON DISEASE. 



Mr. Dadant. Has removing the queens any value in treating the 

 two diseases? Alexander. Simmins, and others have recommended 

 removing the queens. Is this of any value in either disease? 



Doctor Phillips. A- has been stated before to-day, I -pent four 

 week- last spring with the inspectors of New York State in the field. 

 Both American foul brood and European foul brood are found in 

 that State, but practically the same method of treatment is advocated 

 by the inspectors for both diseases. Colonies found to be diseased are 

 shaken according to the method which has been described several 

 t imes in this meet ing. 



In order to save any healthy brood which is found in colonies 

 infected with disease, the sealed brood from several colonic-, four 

 to eight, is piled up in hive bodies above a weak colony which i< 

 diseased. In seven to ten day- all the brood which is worth saving 

 will have emerged and the weak colony will have been changed to one 

 strong enough to treat This colony is then treated by the shaking 

 method as were the other-. There is no necessity of waiting more 

 than ten day-, for brood which was unsealed when the brood was first 

 attacked will scarcely be \'^*\ sufficiently to emerge. 



In addition to this treatment, the inspectors recommend the in- 



