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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAJL. 



Remelies for the Nameless Bee-Disease. 



Written for the Amtrican Bee Journal 

 BY C. THEILMANN. 



If that perplexing "nameless bee- 

 disease " can be cured with sulphur, 

 then the Australian bee-keeper spoken 

 of on page 775, will be a great 

 benefactor to the bee-fraternity, as the 

 cure is cheap and simple, and probably 

 just the remedy. 



I have been studying on this disease 

 considerable for the past six or eight 

 years, and tried a great many remedies, 

 but failed in all except one, and that is 

 by taking frames of brood and bees from 

 other colonies and exchanging them 

 with the affected colonies. But in bad 

 cases it would take three or four, and 

 sometimes five, frames before they were 

 cured. I give the frames at intervals of 

 from five to eight days, generally two 

 frames the first time, and one after un- 

 til cured. 



From the nature and actions of the 

 diseased bees, I have always thought it 

 was either a parasite or fungus, upon 

 which I have heretofore expressed my- 

 self in the Bee Jouknal. Knowing that 

 sulphur is a good remedy for such things, 

 yet it never occurred to me to try it. 



To exchange queens, as some have 

 recommended, has always failed with 

 me. Salt and rain water has cured 

 many colonies that were only slightly 

 affected, but in bad cases It would do no 

 good, and the frame remedy was the 

 only thing I have ever tried that would 

 effect a cure every time ; and the frames 

 exchanged have no bad effect on the 

 healthy colonies, but sulphur, in the 

 way described, would be preferable. 



After seeing the remedy in the Bee 

 Journal, I went to the apiary and ap- 

 plied the sulphur on two colonies which 

 were slightly affected (the only ones that 

 were diseased). I sprinkled the frames 

 of one, which quieted the bees imme- 

 diately. I sprinkled the other at the 

 entrance, which made them furious, and 

 many of them killed each other for a 

 minute or two, and then quieted down. 

 I will report results on the disease here- 

 after, as it is too early yet. 



My observation of the origin of the 

 disease leads me to believe that the bees 

 get it from the plants they visit,' the 

 same as other stock (cattle and horses) 

 get the so-called scabs from the plants 

 they come in contact with. Here would 

 be something to study for the experi- 

 ment stations, that would be of much in- 

 terest to our industry. 



My bees are living from hand to 

 mouth. They work on the plan of the 

 little poetry that I saw in the Bee Jouk- 

 NAL lately — they scratch and bite, and 

 gather honey all the day, and eat it up 

 at night. They get just enough for 

 brood-rearing. They are overflowing 

 with bees, but I have not as yet (June 

 23rd) seen one particle of new wax in 

 the hives anywhere, and consequently 

 I have put no supers on any of them. 



Linden will open in a few days. It 

 looks promising. 



Theilmanton, Minn. 



A Home In the Suiiuy Soiitiilaiiil. 



Written for the American Bee. Journal 



BY MRS. S. E. SHERMAN. 



The illustration on the next page gives 

 some idea of my apiary, though consid- 

 erably less than half the hives show in 

 the picture. The house is larger and 

 much better than it appears. It was a 

 box house, and when I got. the place I had 

 the strips torn off and weather-boarded 

 on the outside, and ceiled on the inside, 

 making it a very comfortable house. 

 The kitchen and dining room, which are 

 one, is ceiled overhead, then canvased 

 and papered. All the floors are carpeted 

 except the galleries and honey-room, 

 which are painted. 



This engraving was made from a pho- 

 tograph taken on Dec. 28, 1888. The 

 engraver lengthened out the cut and 

 added those clumsy boxes, or as I sup- 

 pose he thought, hives in the right cor- 

 ner ; also the dining-room is lengthened 

 out. The door is in the center, and 

 not near one end, as he has it. This was 

 perhaps done to make room for my pho- 

 tograph. If you will notice, he has no 

 entrances for the hives — maybe he did 

 this on purpose to shut the bees in to 

 keep from stinging me while on my high 

 perch. I am naturally dizzy-headed, 

 and should the bees sting me while up 

 so high, I might come down with a 

 great fall. 



I have six yards, or breeding pens, as 

 they are generally called, for my fine 

 chickens, all of which are arranged so 

 that I can feed the chickens in each and 

 every pen without going outside the 

 house at all. This is very convenient, 

 especially during bad weather. 



A large tank cistern stands at the 

 corner of the dining-room, and just to 

 the right of it is the bee-tent. South of 

 the tent and dining-room are two double 

 rows of bee-hives, 7 feet apart, facing 



