13 i FOUL BROOD Oil BEE PEST. [Sept, 1896. 



with carbolic soap, and other articles disinfected by spraying 

 with a solution of one ounce Calvert's No. 5 carbolic acid im 

 12 ounces of water. 



It was formerly thought that honey was the only source of 

 infection, so that, if bees were starved until they had got rid 

 of the honey carried by them from the diseased hive, a cure 

 would be effected. It is now known that the starvation 

 method, good as far as it goes, has always failed from the 

 fact of its not being supplemented by disinfection of hives 

 and appliances. 



When the disease is discovered in a weak colony, the 

 destruction of bees, combs, frames, and quilts, together with a 

 thorough disinfection of the hive, is by far the best course 

 to pursue. The spores are thus annihilated, and the source of 

 infection removed. 



If, on the contrary, the colony be still strong, the bees may 

 be preserved by making an artificial swarm of them. They 

 should then be placed in a straw skep and fed on syrup to 

 which three grains of naphthol beta have been added to every 

 pound of sugar used, the naphthol beta being dissolved in 

 alcohol and added to the syrup while still warm. 



The infected frames, combs, and quilts should then be burned, 

 and the hive disinfected by being either steamed, or scrubbed 

 with boiling water and soap, and then painted over with a 

 solution of carbolic acid (one part of Calvert's No. 5 carbolic 

 acid to two parts of water). When the smell of the disinfectant 

 has disappeared, the hive will be ready for use. The bees must 

 be confined to the skep for 48 hours, by which time all honey 

 they may have taken with them will have been consumed, and 

 such of the bees as are diseased will have died off. Those 

 remaining should then be shaken from the skep into a clean 

 •frame-hive furnished with six frames, fitted with full sheets of. 

 comb-foundatioE; and must be fed with medicated syrup for a 

 few days longer. The skep used as their temporary home 

 should be burnt. In order to avoid chance of robbing, all such 

 work as is here described should be done in the evening, when 

 the bees have ceased flying for the day. 



It may be added that in attempting remedial measures of the 

 nature described, it would be desirable, wherever such help csnh 

 fee procured, to seek the advice of a competent expert, 



