Feb. 23, 1905. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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GRIGGS: BROS, 



531 Monroe Street, 

 TOIjESDO, OHIO. 



could see only one dead bee in one hive, and 

 none in the other. In the closed porch out- 

 side the entrances were 15 dead bees. These 

 bees have not flown since Nov. 19. What does 

 this say for wintering bees in observatory 

 hives? Allbn Latham. 



New London Co,, Conn., Feb. 10. 



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4A23t Please mention the Bee JonrnaU 



Controlling Bee-Paralysis. 



The report ot the 35th annual convention 

 of the National Bee-Keepers' Association held 

 at St. Louis is a good one, and I read the re- 

 port on bee-paralysis with much interest. I 

 thinl; I can throw a little light on keeping 

 the disease under control. 



Late in October, 1902, 1 found a bee-tree. 

 The bees were 2 and 3 banded, and I trans- 

 ferred them into a movable-frame hive, and 

 fed them up well. They came out in spring 

 in good condition, and I increased them to 5 

 colonies. All 4 of the queen's daughters pro- 

 duced paralytic bees, and the old queen's 

 progeny showed symptoms ot the disease. 

 Although the malady was hardly noticeable in 

 spite of the immense number of bees dying at 

 each hive-entrance, they went into winter 

 quarters in good condition, and all came out 

 fair colonies in the spring. One of them 

 dwindled to nothing a month after being put 

 out. The grass would be full of dying bees, 

 and they would crawl out of the hives, some 

 of them to die, and others would lay around 

 the entrance on their backs for hours, with 

 their legs quivering. 



Just as soon as I could get queens I re- 

 queened the other 3 colonies, having for 

 queens daughters of the old paralytic queen, 

 before they got to rearing drones. 



I allowed the colony containing the old 

 paralytic queen to swarm once, hiving the 

 new swarm and queen on the old stand. I 

 put the parent colony on a new stand, and 

 cut out all qucen-cells and drone-brood, giv- 

 ing them a ;UBen-cell from a healthy colony. 

 The old Queea being a very prolific one, I did 

 not like to kill her, although she perished the 



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