1903 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



21S 



PUBLISHED MONTHLTBT 



THE W. T. FALCONER MANFG. Co 

 H. E. HILL, - EDITOR. 



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BEE PARALYSIS. 



Ill Gleanings for August 15, 1902, 

 :\Ir. Doolittle conducted an exhaustive 

 ( ?) "conversation" with a quirist in re- 

 s;ard to bee paralysis, in which the 

 matter of a cure for the disease is re- 

 garded as an "unanswered problem." 

 Editor Root eagerly supplemented the 

 "conversation" in part thus: "So far 

 as I can see, friend Doolittle is ortho- 

 dox in his teachings, as he usually is, 

 regarding paralysis. Scientifically we 

 know little or nothing about it; and 

 as to a cure, we know no more." In 

 his issue for September 1, same year, 

 Mr. Root again remarks, "So far I be- 

 lieve there is no cure that has ever 

 been named for it." In the American 

 Bee Journal, June 4. 1903, in response 

 to a question. Dr. Miller advises his 

 quirist that, "LTnfortunately, no reli- 

 able remedy for paralysis can be of- 

 fered." In the same journal, for June 

 11, another of Dr. Miller's questioners- 

 relates an experience in treating a 

 number of colonies with sulphur, In 

 which, "in about three weeks they quit 

 dying,' and he asks whether the sul- 

 phur did any good, and the doctor re- 

 plies, "I don't know; I doubt it'." 



As it appears to us^ this "nameless 

 disease" was so long without a cure 

 that oven tJie veterans cannot get over 

 the idea which prevailed so long that 

 no cure is known; while it has for 

 years been an established fact that it 

 can very easily be cured in every 

 case, and that by a very simple meth- 

 od, as we have frequently demonstrat- 

 ed, to our entire satisfaction, by what 

 is known as the sulphur method, 

 brought to public notice and explained 

 in detail by Mr. O. O. Poppleton, in 

 the Bee-Keeper for August. 



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While the ravages of foul brood have 

 been undermining the bee industry in 

 Ireland the department of agriculture 

 there, according to the Irish Bee Jour- 

 nal, has been sitting for two and a 

 half years before their dusty pigeon- 

 holes crammed with urgent documents 

 bearing upon the necessity for imme- 

 diate and effective action, and the au- 

 gust body has not yet succeeded in 

 assuring itself that the matter is of 

 sufficient importance to warrant doing 

 anything farther than to merely con- 

 tinue to "sit and consider." As a re- 

 sult, Editor Dlgges. through his Jour- 

 nal, is after the wise counsellors with 



