1917 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



407 



I''IG. i. — Fourth stage. Remains of larva dead 

 of sacbrood. (Original.) 



Dr. White also gives its resistance 

 to sunlight, in fermentation in sugar, 

 etc. 



The main difference in appearance 

 between sacbrood and European foul- 

 brood is to be found in the earlier 

 death of the larva in the latter dis- 

 ease, for it usually dies while coiled 

 in the cell, before the endwise posi- 

 tion is assumed. The saclike appear- 

 ance is also absent. 



Dr. White also takes notice of the 

 well-known fact that sacbrood is 

 more common in the spring months 

 than at any other time. Colonies 

 rarely die of it, but they often become 

 weakened by it. He does not con- 

 sider the combs of diseased colonies 

 as infectious. 



No remedy has yet been given to 

 cure this disease, which usually runs 

 itself out. The advice given by N. E. 

 France is probably the best course to 

 pursue. Strengthen the colony and 

 give it plenty of honey near the 

 brood. If the queen is old, super- 

 sede her. 



The above named bulletin, which 

 contains 56 pages, is worth perusing, 

 even if some of its scientific terms 

 are "Greek" to the average reader. 

 A valuable amount of information, 

 intelligible to everyone, is stored in 

 it. It deserves a place in every bee- 

 keeper's library. It may be secured 

 from the Department of Agriculture 

 in the usual way. 



A Convenient Package Filler 



MOST of the shippers who deal 

 in combless packages of bees 

 fill them by means of an ordi- 

 nary tin funnel set directly into the 



opening of the package. We are 

 showing herewith two pictures of a 

 package filler (luite ditTerent from 

 those in common use. This filler is 

 used by the Pcnn Company and is 

 supported by two rods which are 

 pressed into the ground to hold it 

 solid. There is a small platform on 

 which the packages to be filled are 

 placed. The big funnel makes rapid 

 work easy since it catches all the 

 bees that are jarred from a frame 

 held over it and there is no danger of 

 a slight jar overturning the package 

 partly filled with bees. 



The Wonderful Story of a 

 Queen Bee 



By Bro. Remain 



TWO years ago, in July, an ex- 

 student of our college asked me 

 for a hive of bees. To please 

 him, I agreed to divide one hive of 

 mine, giving him the queen and three 

 frames of brood. Naturally the "be- 

 reaved" bees started queen-cells and 

 in due time a new queen emerged. 

 Every day, about noon, I used to open 

 the hive to watch the progress of her 

 majesty. The fifth day, at 12 o'clock, 

 the queen was found "missing" — out, 

 I thought, on her mating flight; but 

 at 1 o'clock no queen yet ; at 2, no 



PACKAGE FILLER USED BY THE PENN 

 COMPANY. 



FIG. 5. — Scale, or larval remains in position in cell, cut lengthwise, lateral view. (Original.) 



PENN PACKAGE FILLER SHOWING 

 HOW PACICAGE IS PLACED. 



queen, either ; rather bad — and bees 

 giving signs of unmistakable anxiety. 

 I concluded that the queen had been 

 lost. 



That same day, at 3 o'clock, a friend 

 beekeeper, Mr. G. Rozario, came from 

 his home situated in the center of a 

 populous quarter of Shanghai, about 

 one-third of a mile distant, and told 

 me the strange story that he had just 

 seen a new queen, from somewhere, 

 newly fecundated, gladly received in 

 one of his hives (he had only two). 

 No doubt this was my kidnaped 

 queen. 



Mr. Rozario made no difficulty to 

 return the found queen. I went to his 

 house, put the strayed queen in a 

 matchbox and soon re-installed her 

 in her deserted home. I put her on 

 the top of the frames. Then what 

 followed no words can adequately de- 

 scribe. The queen was met with a 

 rush of bees upwards, giving extra- 

 ordinary demonstrations of joy in 

 touching the queen. They went be- 

 low, the queen with them, as if sim- 

 ply returning from her normal flight. 



Now, can some expert tell, first, 

 why that queen deserted her home; 

 second, how could she be persuaded 

 to enter a foreign hive and be wel- 

 comed there, even by the old queen; 

 third, who was guilty of abduction? 



Anyhow, is not that fact throwing 

 some light on many cases where bee- 

 men are puzzled by the apparition of 

 bees different from those of the hive? 



To end the story of that queen 1 

 must add that last spring, in March, 

 finding the colony too weak, I united 

 it with a stronger one, without any- 

 thing between; but the "under bees" 

 got onto the trick and, roused to 

 fury, massacred everyone of the in- 

 truders during the night. 



Shanghai, China. 



