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Date: | Sat, 27 Dec 1997 12:39:40 -0600 |
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At 01:06 PM 12/26/97 +1200, you wrote:
>Hello Jerry,
>I just here a story about a beekeeper who bought a large number of hives
>that where diseased by American Foul Brood. To kill off all of the spoors in
>the wood he built a vat that would hold some of the boxes then boiled them
>in paraffin to sterilize them. He then set them up with bees in an isolated
>apiary for a couple of years as in quarantine. The hives remained free of
>AFB.
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>Regards,
>
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>John Lewis
>Fiji
>
>Jerry Scott wrote:
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>> My question is: Since I don't know the guy who owned these
>> boxes and why he stop keeping bee's (ie: did they all die off), is there
>> anything else I should be concerned about or do with these boxes before
>> using them. I didn't know if any germs or mite treatment to the wood
>> should be done, other than washing them. Which bring up, I was just
>> going to use dish soap in water to wash them, like I would wash my car.
>> Should I use some special Bee soap (if anything like that exists.
>> Any opinions would be helpful and really appreciated
Another way is to scorch them with a tourch.
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