AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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learned that the packing-houses always 

 put honey up in glass, and they always 

 put in some comb honey. It may be 

 glucose, and for that reason I can't sell 

 glass packages to my customers. They 

 want the honey in tin packages. 



Mrs. Thos. Strawbridge— I find that 

 the Mason jar is the most desirable 

 package for my market. Tin was not a 

 success in marketing my honey. I use 

 the quart Mason jars. 



E. Whitcomb — My home demand is for 

 the one and two pound sizes. We tell 

 them to bring back the jar or crock and 

 we will give them 5 cents for it. The 

 honey is 15 cents and the jar 5 cents, 

 bring the package back and you will get 

 your honey back. 



Mrs. J. M. Null — I use the 60-pound 

 cans — from the 60-pound size to the 14 

 gallon size in tin, and from the y^ pound 

 glass self-sealer to the 14 gallon st'f- 

 sealer, for extracted honey. 



Bee-Paralysis. 



Question No. 2. — "Has any member 

 present had any experience with bee- 

 paralysis, and has he anything new to 

 offer in explanation of the disease, or in 

 the way of practical remedies ?" 



A. I. Root — I made the first mention 

 of that disease. I did not know of any- 

 thing better, so I named it that. I 

 thought once that I had discovered a 

 remedy by destroying the queen and put- 

 ting in a different one, but I have since 

 learned that that does not do it. Prof. 

 Cook says that the disease appeared in 

 Michigan, and he thought it was the 

 queen. 



Dr. Miller — I had that disease myself 

 — or rather my bees did — and I painted 

 my shop red and my bees got well. I 

 don't think that it was the painting of 

 the shop that did it. So far as I can see 

 I don't think you will find it in the 

 North here to any very great extent. I 

 do not know that I have seen any re- 

 ports of it here, but I think if you will 

 let it alone it will take care of itself. In 

 the South it becomes very bad, and the 

 question is whether any of these reports 

 of a cure have anything to do with it at 

 all. I don't think we know anything 

 more about it than we did before. Some 

 one's bees has the disease and he changes 

 the queen, and the bees get over it, and 

 he says changing the queen did it. My 

 bees had the disease, and I painted my 

 shop red and the bees got over it, and I 

 have just as good a right to say the red 

 paint caused the cure as you have to say 

 that the change of the queens did it. I 

 don't think we know any more about it 

 now than we did at first, and I don't 



think we need to trouble ourselves about 

 it. I believe it will take care of itself. 



Mr. Dadant— I would like to ask if 

 anybody can tell the difference between 

 that and bee-constipation. They come 

 at the same time of the year. 



Mr. Holtermann — Some say it is from 

 starved brood. I would like to see a case 

 of it, and see what it is like. 



Mr. Whitcomb — I have never seen but 

 one or two cases of this disease. In one 

 case I thought I would change the queen 

 and introduce a new one. The queen 

 that I took out looked so fine that I 

 really disliked to destroy her, and I 

 started a new colony, and I never had 

 any more trouble with her. Another 

 case I had was where they got at some fly- 

 poison that a neighbor had put out. In 

 nearly every case I have been able to 

 trace it to a neighbor who had care- 

 lessly left sugar or something else out 

 which attracted the bees, and they got 

 so thick that in order to get rid of them 

 he put out fly-poison to kill them. I 

 have told them to take it in or I would 

 prosecute them, and they did it. In one 

 case I got rid of it by changing the 

 queen, and the queen I took away from 

 them built up one of the finest colonies. 



Mr. Richardson — I think they get it 

 by working on some poisonous plant. I 

 have seen them working on a potato 

 plant which I had sprinkled with a mix- 

 ture of Paris-green and flour. We know 

 that they do gather poisonous honey, 

 and might not bee-paralysis be on ac- 

 countof their gathering poisonous honey? 



Mr. Root — This disease appeared in 

 ray apiary, and the bees were thin and 

 looked like walking skeletons. Now in 

 regard to this poisoning. I consulted a 

 lawyer, and he said it was a crime to 

 poison anything at all ; that there was a 

 heavy penalty for poisoning anything. 



E. L. Carrington — I have had consid- 

 erable experience with this " nameless 

 disease," and I will tell you how it 

 works with me. The first colony that I 

 had that had this disease, it came on in 

 the spring. The bees kept getting fewer 

 in numbers. At last they died so rapidly 

 that I became alarmed and salted them 

 with salt brine — put it all over the comb. 

 That checked it for awhile. I always 

 hive on the same stand, and I took the 

 combs out and put in new frames. That 

 stopped it for that season, but the next 

 season it was worse than ever. They 

 had the same queen. I took out that 

 queen and gave them another. This I 

 did when the hive was in that condition, 

 and I have had no more of the trouble 

 ince her bees came out. So far as poison 

 is concerned, I know that could not have 



