Oct. 20, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



717 



unnoticed. "Ye Editor" might have 

 spotted it and corrected it for me be- 

 fore it went into print ! 



I would like to add that it is exceed- 

 ingly unlikely that each bird would 

 confine himself to one hour a day in 

 his bee-eating, which is the supposi- 

 tion on which these figures were based. 

 It is almost certain that the birds 

 would feed at least twice a day, morn- 

 ing and evening, and it is quite likely 

 that their visits would be even more 

 frequent. 



I would also like to state that at the 

 time these observations were taken 

 (Aug. 12 to 14) there were 30 colonies 

 in the apiary, all very strong and all 

 busily at work, so there were continual 

 streams of bees going out and coming 

 in. " A Bee-Keeper in Virginia." 



Augusta Co., Va. 



Results of Inhaling Bee-Poison. 



On page 660, the doctors among your 

 readers are invited to give their opin- 

 ion, and, if possible, a remedy in such 

 cases as that of Mr. W. W. Shafer. I 

 am not a doctor, only a plain farmer, 

 but I will give the experience I had 

 which is similar to that of Mr. Shafer, 

 and I think such cases are not at all 



rare, especially among old people, for 

 I know of another bee-keeper, who is 

 also a doctor, who lives four miles 

 from here — a man 73 years old, not 73 

 years young, as Dr. Miller is — who has 

 had the same experiences. (I saw Dr. 

 Miller at the St. Louis convention, and 

 I think he looks younger and better 

 than his pictures in the bee-papers.) 



It is my opinion that the sickness in 

 such cases is not caused by the stings, 

 but by inhaling the poison thrown out 

 by the bees when we open their hives 

 and smoke them. 



Last year, when working with the 

 bees one day, I took the cover off of a 

 hive, and the colony being very strong 

 the top of the frames were covered 

 with bees. I had not smoked them 

 enough, and they rushed out at me. 

 Four or five of them stung me on the 

 right hand, and one on the side of 

 neck, whereupon I immediately became 

 sick at the stomach, and my eyes be- 

 came affected by a peculiar dizziness 

 for a few seconds. I drank about a 

 pint of water for the purpose of dilut- 

 ing the poison in the stomach, and 

 also took a dose of Apis melifica, a 

 homeopathic remedy made of the 

 bee-stings. In a short time the sick 

 feeling passed off, and was followed by 



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