. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. November, 1916. American Hee Journal -^^^ rC >^ ? ' /__- ---' K-^J^ ji^r^_fr^ ^P^ ..^1 ir j/>5^ FIG. 'S TONGUE-Photographed in the woods thumb," makes it imperative in the minds of our authorities that no half way measures should be tolerated in dealing with such a serious disease. If giving but one shake would cure all but a fertf, one could afford to treat those few colonies again, for a second shaking often seems to demoralize colonies, causing many to desert the hives if queens are not caged. Those who have practiced much shaki
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. November, 1916. American Hee Journal -^^^ rC >^ ? ' /__- ---' K-^J^ ji^r^_fr^ ^P^ ..^1 ir j/>5^ FIG. 'S TONGUE-Photographed in the woods thumb," makes it imperative in the minds of our authorities that no half way measures should be tolerated in dealing with such a serious disease. If giving but one shake would cure all but a fertf, one could afford to treat those few colonies again, for a second shaking often seems to demoralize colonies, causing many to desert the hives if queens are not caged. Those who have practiced much shaking of foulbrood know of the amount of trou- ble often attendant with the second shaking when the partly drawn starters are replaced by full sheets of founda- tion. While we have never had much foul- brood in our apiaries—six colonies at one yard five or six years ago being the largest number found in a single season—yet as I practiced the single shake in nearly every case, results as to how they turned out might be inter- esting. During the last eight years I have treated 17 or 18 colonies, nearly all mildly affected, as I always found them in the spring when clipping queens and doing the general manipu- lating incidental to spring work. Of this number five or six showed a few cells of foulbrood later, and had to be shaken again. This is altogether too large a percentage, and if this is a gen- eral condition resulting from giving but one shake, I understand why Mr. McEvoy emphatically insisted on two shakes, and I wonder that so many in- spectors "over the line " advocate giv- ing but one shake. Results are often hard to explain, and I might illustrate this by telling of two incidents coming under my notice. Some years ago when on inspection work I was looking through some very strong colonies belonging to a friend not far from my home, a distance of seven or eight miles. The colonies were given little attention by the owner, but the bees, although in odd- sized h
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