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A Member. — What do you think? 



Miss Fowls. — Well, it seems it is the same thing, and I don't 

 care what we call it. 



The Member. — What do you think it is? 



Miss Fowls. — I think that there is some bacteria in both that 

 give the same characteristics, and whether there are certain bacteria 

 in one that are not in the others I can't say, I am not at all sure about 

 it. It looks very much as though they are the same, but I don't know. 



The President. — I would like to know what Mr. Kendal thinks 

 about it. 



Mr. Krause. — Mr. President, if you will allow me to speak again, 

 the only way we can tell the difference between the two is by opening 

 the hive and examining the comb. Now in paralysis you will find the 

 bee shaking on the comb the same as you will on the outside. Now we 

 can't find that in the crawling, disease. 



Miss Fowls. — I mean to say that we had seen a few trembling 

 bees, but the great majority were not trembling. 



Mr. Krause. — On the comb inside? 



Miss Fowls. — Yes, and the same with the distended abdomens, 

 a few of them, not many, not any such a large number as I understand 

 they have had in cases of paralysis in the South. There I understand 

 that the majority are in that condition. They were not in all that I 

 saw; it was only a few. 



A Member. — Mr. Chairman, I don't believe there is any law of 

 nature which would prevent a colony of bees from having both diseases 

 at one time, paralysis and crawling disease. 



The President. — As Miss Fowls says, bacteria which do not 

 characterize either one disease particularly may be present in both.i 



A Member. — Several speakers have spoken as though they 

 thought that because of certain symptoms being alike that the two 

 diseases were one, or as though a colony could not have both diseases 

 at the same time. Now if we have symptoms of the crawhng disease 

 in bees on the comb that we do not have in paralysis, or vice versa, 

 then there are two diseases. But if we find all of the symptoms all 

 of the time in all of the hives, then we have only one disease. 



The President. — Mr. Kildow has had a good deal of experience 

 with bee diseases, we would be glad to have him give us his opinion 

 in regard to the disappearing disease or whatever you may call it. 



Mr. Kildow. — I never saw it. 



The President. — I may say in my own yards we have had some- 

 thing similar to that occasionally. Sometimes there will be one or 

 two colonies affected, again quite a number. 



A Member. — What time of the year? 



The President. — It is usually along in the summer time, in 

 warm weather. 



The Member. — Not in the spring? 



The President. — No, not in thoK. spring. Sometimes I have 

 cured it by changing queens, as has bmi suggested here. Last sum- 

 mer I had something slightly different from anything I had ever ob- 

 .served before. The bees were very strong, there was a very strong 

 honey flow, and we observed a great number of bees in front of one 



