■S54 AGRICULTURAL ESSAYS. 



recommends fresh urine, placed on plates near the hives, for the 

 use of the bees. He also recommends white wine, boiled with 

 an equal quantity of loaf sugar, with an addition of cloves and 

 nutmegs, as doing well. Also, the bark of pomegranates, 

 pounded and mixed with honey and sweet wine, as being con- 

 ducive to the health of the bee. 



•Mr. Duchet recommends good old port wine, mixed with 

 honey. 



Mr. Wildman recommends fine salt as a remedy, to be placed 

 on the bee stand, where they may eat it at pleasure. 



Oat meal is also recommended in the dysentary. 



All these remedies are approved of by Mr. Huish, who ob- 

 serves, that great care should be taken to keep the hives as 

 clean as possible during the prevalence of the dysentary a- 

 mongst your bees. 



He further observes, that the antenna of the bee . are some- 

 times diseased, and turn yellow, attended with some swelling ; 

 but considers the disease as slight. The abortive brood, al- 

 though not an epedemical disorder, is still very injurious in its 

 effects upon the bees. Two causes produce this effect : first, 

 when the bees have given the larva improper food ; second, 

 when the worm is placed in the cell with the tail towards its 

 mouth. In this case, the young bees, incapable of extrication, 

 die and putrif}^ 



The bees generally remedy the evils 6f this putrefaction by 

 removmg the gtbortive brood ; but should this accident take 

 place in winter, the infected combs may be cht out when the 

 hives are examined in the spring. The tops of the cells, when 

 Bound, are convex- and yeUowish ; when abortive, concave anil 

 blackish. 



There are various enemies of the bee, besides the worm, or 

 butterfly, mentioned in the essay on btes, disclosed to the au- 

 thor smce.that essay was sent to the press,araong which are Uie 

 mouse, pf all kinds, the rat, the toad, and the ant. It is believ^ 



