THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



May, 



a call, and remarked that the situation 

 was becoming very discouraging. He 

 is now searching for localities where 

 starvation of the bees may be warded 

 ofif by some natural supply of nectar. 



(H). 



Mr. D. H. Coggshall, of Groton, N. 

 Y., in company with Mrs. Coggshall, 

 recently spent a day or two with the 

 editor. Mr. C. has a sort of combrna- 

 tion bee-veil and working shiH, which 

 he donned to demonstrate its practica- 

 bility, and w'hile it can hardly be said 

 to be "a thing of beauty," it appear^ 

 to be quite a satisfactory bee dress for 

 those who find it preferable to use 

 such protection from stings. The de- 

 vice will be described by Mr. Coggs- 

 hall in an early number of The Bee- 

 Keeper, with illustrations. (H). 



MISREPRESENTATION. 



The following is from the Far-Wies- 

 tern Bee-Keeper, for April: 



"The American Bee-Keeper of De- 

 cember, '06, states that Germany pro- 

 duces annually forty million pounds 

 of honey from nearly twenty-one mil- 

 lion of colonies of bees — ^which means 

 just about two pounds to the colony. 

 The 'American' has another guess 

 coming." 



The American Bee-Keeper regrets 

 to note that the new bee journal is 

 starting in to make a record for itself 

 for unreliable statements. It's start- 

 ing early. 



''The 'American Bee-Keeper' for 

 December, '06," nor any other time, 

 ever made the statement attributed to 

 it. (H.) 



A NEiW PARALYSIS CURE. 



The following, from the Galveston, 

 Texas, News, by F. J. R. Davenport, 

 •possesses, at least, the merit of sim- 

 plicity. As to its efficiency, we know 

 not, but we certainly have no faith in 

 the "cure," and would hesitate to 



recommend it to the inexperienced: — 

 (H). 



"I will now write on paralysis and 

 starvation pertaining to bees, and how 

 to eradicate them. The abdomens of 

 bees that are afifected with paralysis 

 are swollen up. They crawl out on the 

 entrance to the hive and wiggle around 

 and fall ofif, and that is the last of 

 them. 



"Now to efifect a cure for them: 

 Take equal parts of honey and granu- 

 lated sugar; melt a pint together to 

 each hive that is afifected. At sundown, 

 remove the top and pull the cloth ofif 

 and pour this warm liquid over the 

 'brood frames and contract the en- 

 trance. The bees will eat this liquid. 

 The next morning if it is warm they 

 will come out and take a cleansing 

 flight and come back to their hives all 

 right." 



BEES HAVE SCOUTS. 



Paris, Jan. 19. — ^M. Bonnier has read 

 a paper before the Academy of Sciences 

 announcing his discovery that each 

 hive of bees possesses an intelligence 

 department which sends out scouts to 

 discover where honey and other good 

 things are to be gathered. 



M. Bonnier noticed that some bees 

 remained hovering about flowers for 

 a long time, as if prospecting. He 

 marked some of them, and found that,' 

 when they discovered "a good thing," 

 they flew direct to the hive with a 

 sample, returning almost immediately 

 with many companions. 



Sometimes he found that the scouts 

 appeared to give directions in the hive 

 to their companions, for the bees be- 

 gan to stream out and fly to the indi- 

 cated flowers unaccompanied by any 

 of the "scouts." — Exchange. 



Charity and good nature give a 

 sanction to the most common actions, 

 and pride and ill nature make our 

 best virtues despicable. — ^Wycherly. 



