Gleanings in bee culture . f thebox. I put seven or eightstarters on each side ofthis cover. This cover preparedwith starters on bothsides I place over thebox, and for the pur-pose of protecting thestarters on the ujDper side I put an emj^tj^super over it with a regular hive-cover on the bees have been drawing out thefoundation for three or four days I lift offthe empty super and set it to one side, takeup the cover with the bees, and give a quickshake, dislodging all the bees with one I turn the cover over, thus giving the A NEW METHOD OF SHAKING TO CURE FOULBROOD The McEvo
Gleanings in bee culture . f thebox. I put seven or eightstarters on each side ofthis cover. This cover preparedwith starters on bothsides I place over thebox, and for the pur-pose of protecting thestarters on the ujDper side I put an emj^tj^super over it with a regular hive-cover on the bees have been drawing out thefoundation for three or four days I lift offthe empty super and set it to one side, takeup the cover with the bees, and give a quickshake, dislodging all the bees with one I turn the cover over, thus giving the A NEW METHOD OF SHAKING TO CURE FOULBROOD The McEvoy Plan Simplified; Inducing the Bees to Use up all Diseased Honey by Building Combs on Starters Attached to the Cover BY W. A. BAESTOW In treating foul brood when bees areshaken on to starters of comb foundation inregular frames these frames have to beshaken later on, one at a time, and this givesthe bees on the last few frames a chance toeat some of the infected honey that possiblymay be stored in the new combs built, and. Barstows method of providing starters for thebees to work on when being treated for foul quick jar dislodges all the bees at once. 888 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE bees a new set of starters to work on, andput the empty super back on again, thuscovering up the combs that the bees havemade. By this plan I can shake a doz?ncolonies in the same time that would be re-quired to shake one having starters inframes, and none of the bees have a chanceto eat any of the diseased honey, for it isout of the Avay before they know what hashappened. In the evening or early morning one canmake the rounds again, scrape off the combson the upper side of the covers and disposeof them. At the end of the second period of fourdays the bees can be shaken once more, thistime into their new hive on frames of fullsheets of foundation or combs, with or with-out brood, and all disease is gone. The boxes used to shake the bees into canbe cleaned out and used again, if f o
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