1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



539 



Qcr^eral Iterrjs* 



An Old-Time Honey-Year. 



We have had as fine a flow of honey 

 this year a,s could be asked for, from 

 basswood. This is an old-time honey- 

 year. I started with ten colonies, in- 

 creased to 22, and have talfen 500 

 pounds of honey so far, part taken ofl, 

 and the rest all ready to be taken off. 

 There is a fine prospect for a fall flow. 



The Bee Journal is better than ever. 

 Success to it. F. M. Poland. 



Freedom, Maine, Aug. 5. 



Half a Crop Promised. 



I have 100 colonies of bees, located 

 ten miles from the mountains, in a small 

 valley where alfalfa is the staple prod- 

 uct. As few leave their alfalfa to 

 mature seed, the bees get a brief benefit. 

 The hay-makers begin cutting before 

 the bloom is fully out. Greasewood 

 yields a clear fconey of excellent quality. 

 May and June were drouthy months 

 here in southeast Colorado, and bees 

 swarmed but little — not more than one 

 swarm from, ten colonies. The yield of 

 honey promises to be half a normal crop. 

 Bees are healthy. S. W. DeBusk. 



Downing, Colo., Aug. 10. 



Salt for Bee-Paralysis. 



Who knows that salt is not an anti- 

 dote for bee-paralysis? For years I 

 have given my bees salted water, and 

 never have had the disease in my apiary. 

 And now comes a Mr. Williams — quite a 

 prominent bee-keeper — and says that he 

 always cures the bees of that disease by 

 sprinkling them andj^the inside of the 

 hive, combs and all, with quite strong 

 salted water. He makes it so strong with 

 salt that it shows on top of the frames 

 when dry. He has sprayed colonies at 

 nieht, that were very bad with the dis- 

 ease, and in the morning they were all 

 right. When I was a boy, the rule was 

 to wash the inside of the hive with 

 strong brine, in order to make the bees 

 stay in the hive. Of course we rattled 

 tin pans, rang bells, and as a last resort 

 fired off the old musket, to make them 

 cluster. We lose all of that fun uow. 



Santa Ana, Calif. De. E. Gallup. 



Foul Brood. 



I send you sample of foul brood. I do 

 not know what condition it will be in 

 when you receive it, but when I took it 

 out of the hive the day that I sent it to 

 you it was as fine a looking piece of brood 

 as you generally find, but it is foul brood 

 of the worst kind, all the same. Al- 

 though this brood apparently looked 

 perfect when taken out of the hive, not 

 more than one in 20 of our bee-keepers 

 would know or even believe it to be foul 

 brood, but if you will examine the brood- 

 cells carefully you will find half or more 

 of the larviP to be what is called the 

 w.-ong or backward presentation. At 

 tais stage of the disease, although it has 

 been in the hive for three weeks, all 

 with the head or proper presentation 

 will hatch out, but as the disease pro- 

 gresses, in time all or nearly all, of the 

 young larviB become affected by it. I 

 have often found this a sure symptom or 



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