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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REV 12. . 



cerned, but the bees found something which 

 they carried freely for a few days. Later 

 this colony, and this one only, had a bad 

 case of what is known and talked about as 

 bee paralysis. My explanation was that it 

 was poisonous honey. Again, last spring, I 

 had a strong colony that gathered great 

 quantities of honey from the apple bloom. 

 One of my neighbors sprayed the trees while 

 in bloom and the bees worked on the poison- 

 ed flowers, result: a clear case of bee par 

 alysis. In each and every case with me it is 

 caused by the bees gathering honey from 

 flowers that have had some poison put on 

 them, or from flowers like the yellow jesi- 

 mine of the South, and many other plants 

 which are poisonous. Yet I shall expect 

 the learned savants to be hunting for the 

 cause for the next twenty years. 



South Columbia, N. Y. Nov. 10, 18!»7. 



[ Friend Ferris you misunderstood me 

 somewhat in regard to self-spacing frames. 

 I did not intend to convey the idea that I 

 had any objection to them; the only point 

 that I wished to make was that when a firm 

 advocates, advertises and " pushes " some 

 particular kind of goods, the orders for that 

 kind of goods are quite likely to be greater 

 than for some other kind that this same 

 firm thinks and says is not so good, and 

 the report of these two firms shows that 

 this view is a correct one. The first frames 

 that I ever used were self-spacing, and at 

 least one-half of my apiary for more than 

 a dozen years has been on self-spacing 

 frames. Such frames have their advantages 

 and disadvantages, and the same may be 

 said of the loose, hanging frames. 



As I have repeatedly said, I am glad to 

 publish views that do not accord with my 

 own. and that is one reason why I print 

 what friend Ferris has to say about bee 

 paralysis being caused by poisonous honey, 

 or from honey that has been poisoned by 

 the spraying of fruit bloom. It is possible 

 that bees have suffered from the consump- 

 tion of honey made from the nectar of cer- 

 tain plants, although this is doubtful, and 

 there is no (luestion whatever that they have 

 been poisoned by the spraying of fruit trees 

 while they are in bloom, and the symptoms 

 of such poisoning maybe somewhat sim- 

 ilar to those or bee paralysis; but, after ad- 

 mitting all this, the fact still remains that 

 there have been many cases of bee paralysis 

 where the cause could by no possibility be 

 that of poison. — Ed. J 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. NOV. 10. 1897. 



The Progressive has a new " dress " of 

 type, and Bro. Leahy hasn't bragged about 

 it a bit. 



Large Entrances for hives are being ad- 

 vocated, and I think it is a move in the right 

 direction. A large entrance can be con- 

 tracted but a small one cannot be enlarged. 



Gleanings for Nov. l.">th is an unusually 

 fine issue for even that tine journal. I have 

 counted the engravings and there are fifteen, 

 while the reading in bright and sparkling 

 and "up to date." I am proud of Gleanings, 

 even if it isn't my journal. 



Drones, that is, too many of them, are 

 objectionable. Mr. Doolittle said, at the 

 Bufi'alo convention, that if six combs of 

 hatching drone brood be put into a colony 

 at the begining of the flow from basswood, 

 these drones will eat all of the honey that is 

 gathered and none will be stored as surplus. 



" Beedom Boiled Down " is the heading 

 of a most excellent department in the 

 American Bee Journal. Nothing is said as 

 to ii'/io does the "boiling;" but as E. R. 

 Hoot says, the "ear marks are pretty plain." 

 .\ny one who writes very much finally ac- 

 iiuires a certain style that is (juickly recog- 

 nized by those who read a good share of 

 what is written in that particular style. My 

 dear, old-time friend, you might just as 

 well put your name at the head of that col- 

 umn — unless you can shake off that plain 

 familiar style. 



The Bee Moth's Eggs are destroyed by a 

 zero temperature. I know that this is true, 

 because I have many times stored away 

 empty combs in the fall in a honey house 



