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name and address on every pound of 

 your honey. Force upon your cus- 

 tomers the fact that comb honey can- 

 not be manufactured, and that it does 

 not pay to feed sugar, glucose, etc., 

 to bees. 



Next get some little pamphlets, such 

 as "Honey as a Health Food," etc., 

 and distribute them among your cus- 

 tomers. Secure the consent of the ed- 

 itor of your local paper to publish in it 

 a number of recipes in which honey 

 must be used. 



If people get angry and think that 

 your bees are a nuisance, do not fight 

 with them, but give them some honey. 



We have thus far had a fair season. 

 We had a long, cold spring, followed 

 by 3 or 4 weeks of fine bee-weather. It 

 is getting very dry now, but we are 

 looking for rain soon. If we do not 

 get it there will be very little honey. 

 New honey is in great demand. 



Geo. S. Graff.\m. 



Penobscot Co., Maine, July 30. 



Bee-Paralysis— Vitality of Young 

 Brood. 



Every season I have lost one or more 

 colonies with bee-paralysis. It would 

 make its first appearance any time 

 from very early in the spring to the 

 middle of June. Those colonies hav- 

 ing it badly would dwindle away alto- 

 gether in two or three mouths, others 

 would show signs of it for a month or 

 two and get over it. The strong colo- 

 nies seemed to have it worse than the 

 weaker ones. 



So when on June 9 I found a strong 

 colony which occupied two full stories, 

 showing signs of the disease, I deter- 

 mined to try the sulphur remedy. 

 About the middle of the daj' I took out 

 every frame and dusted the bees with 

 finely powdered sulphur, using a yeast- 

 powder tin with holes in the cover. For 

 five or six days they grew much worse, 

 showing that it was a bad case. After 

 that they began to improve, and in 

 about 21 days there was not a sick bee 

 to be seen. I did not take away the 

 unsealed brood and eggs, as recom- 

 mended by O. O. Poppleton, on page 

 S3S (1903), and on looking in three 

 days later I found that although some 

 may have been destroyed, a good pro- 

 portion were uninjured. About 10 days 

 later I found another colony with the 

 disease, and applied the sulphur with 

 the same results. When I have occa- 

 sion to do it again I shall take out any 

 combs that have much unsealed brood 

 or eggs, shake the bees off, and, after 

 dusting the bees, return them at once 

 to the hive. 



I had an experience lately with bees 

 choosing larva; too old for rearing 

 good queens about the middle of June. 

 Having found a fairly strong colony 

 with plenty of sealed brood but no 

 queen or queen-cell, I put in a frame of 

 eggs and young brood from my best 

 queen. When I looked 10 days after- 

 ward, I was surprised to find a queen 

 already out, and two or three more 

 ready to emerge ; after a longer time 

 than usual the one first out — she was 

 scarcely larger than a worker — began 

 to lay ; there was only a small patch 

 of eggs, and at the same time there 

 were three queen-cells with eggs in 

 them. I need hardly say that I killed 

 her at once. 



The great vitality of young brood 

 surprised me lately. I found in June a 



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