Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-18

dFuuuLutu SullClenlN, snake the peeS
into clean hive or box, over which
place wire-cloth cover, care being
taken that none escape, as one bee
escaping and entering another hive
would, in all probability, spread the
disease, as it is by the depositing of
the disease honey in the cells of clean
colonies that this disease is generally
contracted. To prevent the spreading
of the disease. the operation should bo
performed either early in the morning
or late in the evening, when no bees
are flying; or if the work is done dur
ing the day, it should be beneath a
a wire tent, or in some other place of
confinement, where there is no chance
of any of the bees from the affected
colony escaping These precautions
are required only where a portion of
the yard is diseased; but where the
whole apiary is attacked, the work
may be carried on with impunity
When all the bees have been secured
in the hive or box covered by the wire
cloth, carry il TO a cool, dark place,
and there lay it ON its side; and why 2
First. because when in a dark. cool
place the bees will cluster and remain
more quiet than when subjected to
light and heat; and secondly, when
clustering in the top of the hive, and
were the hive or box to be placed on
its proper bottom they would all clus
ter on the wire cloth, and thus prevent
proper ventilation, which would
cause sutfocation; whereas, byplacing
the hive or box ON its side, the other
side would then become the top, and
on this the bees would cluster, thus
securing a free circulation of air The
temperature of the place where the
starving takes place should be from
80 to 50 never above CO., and a cell
lar would therefore be the best place
in hot weather.
They should then be left alone, per
fectly quiet, from 50 to 100 hours, or
until the bees are noticed crawling
around the bottom of the box or hive
IN starving condition, and few of
4 them are dead then put them in q
clear hive with clean comb or foun-
/ dation; if comb, there should be honey
/ in it, and if there is not, tRe bees
should be fed honey or sugar syrup
as also should they be fed when foun-
/ dation is used and remove them TO a
place one or two miles distant, where
/ let them remain until the whole yard
4 is cleansed when they may be return
ed to their original stands in the old
yard While the bees are starving,
scald the hives and frames from which
the affected colonies have been taken
extract the honey from the combs,
which may be boiled and fed back to
them again; render the combs into
wax; and the wax, manufactured into
! foundation, and place it in the scald-
ed frames, for use in the scalded
hive, into which put TIE bees, after
their allotted time of starving has eX-
PRED.
Great caution should be exercised t.
see that the queen is placed in the hive
or box in which the bees are TO starve,
unless in the case where the colony has
been queenless some days previously,
when they will go almost as well with
out one.
Now, in the second case, where on,
/ desires to save the brood, proceed as
in the former instance, with the smok
ing and drumming and trasferring OF
the bees and queen to the hive or box
for starvation, only sufficient being
left in the diseased hive to nurse the
brood.
With those placed ia the clean hive
or box, the operations will be the same
as heretofore described. The remain
ing brood and beef, if weak, should
then be doubled up and otherwise
strengthened as much as possible; and
when Matched out put through the
same process as the others This meth
cd, if properly carried out, will inva
riably prove successful. 1t was rSy
intention to have referred TO the vari
GUS causes of the disease; but find
that my paper is already sufficiently
lengthy. ] will therefore defer it al
this time. Before closing, may say
that, by referring TO page 1913 of the
American Bee Journal for 1882, in its
issue of Feb. Is, some further expla.
nations may be found regarding this
method of curing foul brood by star
walton.