NOVEMBER 1, 1913 



G. Frank Pease, of Marshall, Mich., with a load of 

 honey, vegetables, etc., to take to the fair. 



It is pretty generally agreed that it is 

 well to make the entrance pretty small when 

 robbing threatens or occurs, thus making it 

 easier for the guards to protect it. 



You have probably desisted from feeding 

 now, for a time, and that is wise. When 

 you begin again, if you have no Miller 

 feeders you might use the crock-and-plate 

 plan given in the book "Forty Years among 

 the Bees " that you have. If there is danger 

 of the weaker colonies being robbed when 

 being fed, you could feed to the strong ones 

 enough to have them fill some extra combs, 

 and then give these combs to the weaker 

 colonies. 



Marengo, 111. 



MOVING AN EXHIBIT 50 MILES TO A FAIR BY 

 AUTOMOBILE 



BY G. PRANK PEASE 



I am sending some pictures showing 

 a load for the Kalamazoo fair. The load 

 consisted of 800 lbs. of honey and bees, 

 grain, vegetables, and fruit — about 1600 lbs. 

 in all. The load was taken fifty miles and 

 back. There was a heavy rain the night 

 before I went, and the road was full of 



chuck holes ; but I made the trip both ways 

 without accident. 



Fig. 3 shows a part of the load as it was 

 in the exhibit, on which I won all firsts. 



My car is a Reo the Fifth. I have run it 

 over 2300 miles, and it never has been out 

 of commission except to change tires from 

 puncture several times, which takes from 

 ten to twenty minutes. 



Marshall, Mich. 



BEE PARALYSIS OR POISONING? 



Heavy Losses in a California Apiary from a Pe- 

 culiar Malady 



BY S. A. NIVER 



A truck load in a touring car. 



Aug. 1, p. 547, under the heading " A 

 Peculiar Malady oi' Disease," Mr. S. Fred 

 Webber, of Colorado Springs, Col., writes 

 a description of a condition in his apiary 

 that makes me sit up and take notice. In 

 a footnote the editor asks for explanations. 

 I rise to remark, " Here too." 



We have had two seasons' experience 

 with something of that character, and it is 

 a serious affair in this locality. From all 

 indications and circumstances we had about 

 concluded to lay it at the door of some 

 local poison, and had pitched upon the 

 buckeye as the disturbing cause. A hot 

 wave blasted the bloom about that time, 

 and bees were found dead, clinging to the 

 blossoms as they sometimes are upon milk- 

 weed. 



That was last season — 1912. It killed 

 over half of our bees, and was particularly 

 fatal to young queens. We lost over 400. 



This season (1913) has been another dry 

 one, and we were on the watch for trouble, 

 which came without any blasted buckeye, 

 or at any rate came before that bloom 

 showed any signs of being hurt by heat or 

 any thing else; so our conclusions of last 

 year seemed to need revising. Besides, a 

 new symptom appeared, or was unnoticed 

 last year. The young bees hatched prema- 

 turely, and without wings. They would dig 

 out of the cells in a natural manner — little 

 white fuzzy things, get one sip of honey, 

 and make for the boneyard. 



The old bees would come out of the hive 

 at any time of day, keel over on their backs, 

 claw- frantically at their tongues, and keep 

 pulling them out in an astonishing wav 

 until one would wonder where they conceal- 

 ed such a long big curved spike before the 

 trouble commenced. That tongue was half 

 as long as the bee; but, once clawed out, the 

 bees were unable to get it back again, and 

 died. Some colonies and some yards were 

 worse than others. 



