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colonies in the neighborhood. Now I believe that it is perfectly pos- 

 sible and very probable that one colony in an apiary, may get honey 

 from a source that the other colonies have not found, and perhaps half 

 of them are getting from that source and the other colonies not found 

 it. I don't think that they all get their honey from the same source. 



The President. — I think the gentleman is right in that respect, 

 they do not always gather honey from the same source. 



Mr. Ejiause. — 1 don't like to contradict this man, but I think he 

 is talking of a different disease altogether; I think that is paralysis 

 that he is talking about. The crawling disease don't act like that at 

 all. You don't have it all summer, you only have it a short time, and 

 when one colony has got it the whole yard has got it. I do admit that 

 a yard that is shady, you will notice it there more than you will one 

 that is in the sun, but the ones in the sun will have it too. But you 

 will never find a yard that has what we call the crawling disease with 

 just one single colony that has got it. I would say that that was 

 paralysis, and it only lasts for a short time, and it disappears just as 

 quick as it comes. 



Mrs. Allen. — Mr. Chairman, we had a disease that I suppose 

 would be catalogued as the crawling disease, because we had all of 

 the symptoms that have usually gone with it, particularly the' bees 

 crawling up and dropping down and the inability to fly, just this 

 little hopping, and yet we had only two or three of the colonies in the 

 yard that were affected that way. 



A Member. — How long did it last? 



Mrs. Allen. — We had it two or three different years. It lasted 

 only a while in the spring, but we had it again in the summer. It 

 again lasted just a short time. But we never had the whole yard 

 affected, just two or three colonies. 



Mr. Krause. — I might say that all we do in the case, like this 

 gentleman spoke of here, is to change the queen and the disease will 

 disappear. 



Mr. Baldwin. — I think that Miss Fowls deserves a great deal of 

 credit for opening up this question to our minds, that she has made 

 us think. Now I know my mind has been very hazy as to whether 

 the paralysis and the disappearing disease were one and the same. And 

 yet I don't think Miss Fowls has made it clear to some of our minds as 

 to what she thinks about this. Now some have raised the question 

 this afternoon, and I wish we might get an opinion, if nothing more, 

 as to whether the average bee-keeper thinks they are identical. 



VMiss Fowls. — Whether or not they are the same disease I cannot 

 say, because the same thing that Dr. Phillips said about foul brood 

 will easily hold good here. It might be that certain bacteria are present 

 in the different diseases that would give these characteristics that we 

 think are distinguishing characteristics, that might be it, and so until we 

 know that, I can hardly see how I can answer the question. But I 

 have seen an apiary affected with what the owner told me was paralysis, 

 and another man stood right there and said "Yes, it is paralysis," 

 and it was identically the same thing that we had had and we had 

 called it the disappearing disease, and that is the one that I described 

 to you. 



