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course other circumstances, as the 

 weakness of the colony, or the dearth of 

 honey, may remove that danger. — R. L. 

 Taylor. 



That depends entirely upon the 

 strength of the colony, the time of year, 

 and the honey-flow. — Emekson T. Ab- 

 bott. 



Yes ! the young queen may induce 

 swarming ; if they did not intend to 

 swarm, the bees would destroy the cells. 

 — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



They have been known to swarm un- 

 der the above conditions, but not as a 

 rule ; for the second swarm issues about 

 the time the last of the batch of cells 

 are sealed. — S. I. Freeborn. 



Yes, there is a chance for it. Such 

 pointed questions as this are very difli- 

 cult to answer ; not knowing any of the 

 conditions, they have to be guessed at. 

 I would suggest that our querists be a 

 trifle more explicit. — W. M. Barnum. 



Yes, if the bees arc strong and pros- 

 perous, especially as soon as the cells 

 are sealed. If a colony of bees has any 

 kind of a lively queen, and queen-cells 

 sealed or unsealed — if the cells are not 

 destroyed promptly, you may expect a 

 swarm. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



Who can tell ? I confess that I can't 

 even guess. Much will depend upon the 

 season, the condition nf the colony, and 

 other factors in the problem. What is 

 the cause of the "virgin queen, etc.?" 

 That cause being given, the question 

 could be more easily answered. — J. E. 

 Pond. 



If a colony has a virgin queen, or a 

 queen not a virgin, it will not have un- 

 sealed queen-cells, unless it means to 

 swarm. As soon as a queen is hatched, 

 all queen-cells will be destroyed, unless 

 the bees mean to swarm. The larvte 

 will be removed from unsealed cells, and 

 the food in them consumed. — M. Mahin. 



Yes, if the season is propitious, and 

 the swarming fever is on, the chances 

 are in favor of a swarm. Under such 

 circumstances, you can never be sure 

 that no swarm will issue until cell- 

 building is abandoned by the worker- 

 bees, and the virgin queen has undis- 

 puted right of succession. — G. W. Dem- 

 aree. 



Honey as Food and Medicine is 



just the thing to help sell honey, as it shows 

 the various ways in which honey may be 

 used as a food and as a medicine. Try 100 

 copies of it, and see what good '-sales- 

 men " they are. See the second page of this 

 number of the Bee Journal for description 

 and prices. 



Bee-ParalyslsCaiiseOyStaryeJBrooil. 



n>i«en Jor the American Bee Journal 



BY WM. m'EVOY. 



Partially starved brood is the whole 

 cause of the bee-paralysis. 



For several years I warned the bee- 

 keepers in times of sudden checks in the 

 honey-flow, to look well after their bees, 

 and either uncap honey in the brood- 

 chambers in the evenings, or feed so as 

 to keep the colodies well supplied with 

 unsealed stores. 



Brood is always well fed when the 

 colonies have abundance of unsealed 

 stores. But if a check takes place so as 

 to stop a honey-flow suddenly, while 

 colonies have a large quantity of brood 

 on hand, the bees will use up the un- 

 sealed. stores very soon, and then the 

 bees won't uncap the sealed honey fast 

 enough to keep pace with the amount of 

 brood that requires feeding. Soon after 

 that the small larvae will be found look- 

 ing like little dried worms in the bottom 

 of the cells without a particle of food. 

 In some cells ready to cap, will be seen 

 some of this starved brood, with a 

 brownish color, lying on the lower side 

 of the cells and turned up a little. Some 

 of the capped brood dies through not 

 being fed enough to last until hatched. 

 And some of the bees that do hatch out 

 of this scanty-fed brood, will be a day or 

 two longer in hatching, and, when 

 hatched, some of these bees will be dark 

 in color, and scarcely able to fly. And 

 when the owner sees the bees of the 

 same hives in some cases killing off these 

 useless bees, he will be apt to think 

 them old, worn-out bees that are being 

 killed off. 



If the bee-keeper would see that his 

 colonies of bees had plenty of unsealed 

 stores while brood-rearing is going on, 

 he never would be troubled with this 

 state of things in the apiary. 



I have just read the very valuable 

 item on this subject, from Prof. Cook, 

 on page 137. Prof. Cook has given out 



