Jui/Y, 1918 



gijEanings in bee culture 



423 



HEADS OF GRAIN l I?(FROM^a rDIFFERENT FIELDS 



other odors. There were also a worker-bee 

 and a drone in the collection of mounted 

 speciuients, but the bees paid no attention 

 to anything except the mummy queen. — M. 

 T. Pritchard.] 

 Medina, 0. 



Safe and Sane For introducing valua- 



Queen Introduction, ble queens, I have for 

 a number of years 

 used the following plan without loss: About 

 a week prior to introduction I draw about 

 one-half of the brood from a good strong 

 colony and after shaking enough bees to 

 make it reasonably certain that the queen 

 is in the lower hive, I place the brood above 

 the queen-excluder and lower hive. Then 

 before introducing the new queen, I move 

 the upper hive containing brood to a new 

 stand, thus getting rid of the old bees — the 

 ones that do all the mischief. With this 

 plan there is no time wasted in looking for 

 the queen; there are no old bees nor young 

 brood in the hive; and there is a laying 

 queen up to the time of introduction. These 

 I consider ideal conditions. 



Oswego, N. Y. F. H. Cyrenius. 



[While the plan above given is by no 

 means new, the principle of getting rid of 

 the old bees is good and one that has been 

 used a good many times by some of our good 

 beekeepers. — Editor.] 



Disappearing I notice that some of 



Disease Is Not the bee family have 



Paralysis. been troubled by what 



they called the "dis- 

 appearing disease." I see Grace Allen's 

 name among the rest. It seems to me thaJt 

 she and the others have got paralysis and 

 disappearing disease mixed as to terms. She 

 says the disease attacked a hive under a 

 peach tree, and it was the only one affected. 

 There were dead bees around the hive, and 

 others in the hollows of the ground round 

 about. If I were asked for an opinion, I 

 would say unhesitatingly that the trouble 

 was paralysis. I have the same conditions 

 in the apiary I am writing from today. All 

 the complaints say the same — dead bees 

 around the place. Disappearing disease is 

 literally disappearing disease and is a total- 

 ly different matter from paralysis. You can 

 cure paralysis by changing the queen; but 

 you can cure disappearing disease only by 

 changing the location. In disappearing dis- 

 ease there are no dead bees about the hives 

 nor about the ground. The hives have be- 

 come weaker, and the bees have disappeared 

 —absolutely disappeared. 



I have had an apiary of 150 hives, all 

 three-story and strong, attacked by it, and 

 every succeeding visit showed the hives 

 weaker and weaker all the time until they 

 dwindled down to a handful of bees, and the 

 queen with a patch of brood two inches 



Adam A. Clarke of Le Mars, la., an esperienced beekeeper, entertaining a group of professors and students 

 (Western Union College). His guests at the home apiary were shown the whole process of bee and queen 

 rearing by Mr. Clarke, as we.ll as the actual proce^sses of caring for honey from the comb to the bottled prod- 

 uct. It was a day that gave good beekeeping a boost in Iowa. 



