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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



hound to succeed under any re- 

 verse, and we can say that the old 

 Bay State apiary never liad a more 

 prosperous and successful year. 



To return to the text. Now if 

 bees are dying before cold weatlier 

 sets in, what may the beekeeper 

 expect before spring? The writer 

 is not an alarmist, but every indi- 

 cation points to the fact that bee- 

 keepers are about to experience 

 another hard winter. I really hope 

 that time will prove that I am a no 

 better prophet than our good friend 

 Clark, and several others of those 

 Canadian prophets who have made 

 such wild and terrible predictions 

 within a few years. 



There is no known remedy that 

 can be applied to bees thus dis- 

 eased. The symptoms are these : 

 go to the hive in the morning and 

 from one to twenty shiny black bees 

 with outstretched wings will be 

 found on the alighting-board or 

 un der the frames. The bees look 

 as though they had been soaked in 

 honey. The best thing to do is to 

 destroy the bees ; then the combs 

 would be left in good condition. 



The following quotation taken 

 from the American Bee Joiirnal is a 

 good description of the disease 

 spoken of above. As to the treat- 

 ment recommended for its cure : 

 those who can test it should do so. 

 It is rather late in the season to at- 

 tempt it here.] 



Diseased Bees —There is a bee-disease in 

 GeniKiiiy called "Maikranklieit," because it 

 is usiiallV sei-n in May. The bees have dis- 

 teiuleil abdomens, because they have not been 

 able to void their tieces, alter partakinfr of 

 pollen collectcil in the early spring alter it had 

 been touched by frost. A good remedy is to 

 put a little salicylic acid in syrup and feed it 

 to ihem— keeping the hive dry, and prevent- 

 ing the accumulation of moisture inside. 



Lyle, Minn. 



Mr. IIknry ALI.K.Y: 



Herewith And remittance for renewal of my 

 6uliscrii)tion to Am. Am. 



I am well pleased with yonr Journal. The 

 thorough and practical methods given during 

 last year are what is needed and valued by all 

 who flesire to learn the modern ways of bee- 

 keeping. 



K. 11. VOLSTAD. 



GLEANINGS FROM CORRE- 

 SPONDENCE. 



East Charleston, Vt. 

 Mr. Alley : 



Not seeing anythhig from nortliern 

 Vermont in your Api 1 tlion':lit I 

 would write a few linos, altliono:h 

 I never wrote for pulilicalion belore. It 

 has been a poor jear for bees in this 

 locality. I pnt ten colonies in tlie cel- 

 lar last fall and all came out in splen- 

 did condition and increased to tliirty 

 colonies and made a lari>e amount of 

 sui'plus honey, wlnle a number of bee- 

 keepers around here jiot no surplus. 



One swarm came ofl" the eightli day 

 of June and in sixteen days tilled a 

 Simplicity hive and thirty one-pound 

 sections of as nice lioney as I ever 

 saw, and by the fourth day of July 

 liad filled twenty more and sent out a 

 fine swarm, which I think was doing 

 quite well for this section considering 

 the bee pasturage. Nothing is sown 

 for bees around here. I received the 

 drone-and-queen trap all right; it was 

 rather late in the season for swarms, 

 but it cleared the drones out in short 

 order. 



I like the Api very much; subscribed 

 for it in July, so missed the June num- 

 ber; wish very much you would mail 

 me a copy of that issue. 



Mks. a. L. Hopkins. 



Sp7'ing, III. 

 Friknd Allky : 



The "Api" is at hand, for Avhich 

 please accept thanks. You have very 

 much improved its columns, and 'de- 

 serve many encomiums of praise. I 

 trust you may reap a financial benefit 

 in keeping with so worthy an eflbrt, 

 and that your magazine may rank sec- 

 ond to none in the land. 

 Yoiu's truly, 



Jos. M. Hambaugh. 



Lee, Mass. 

 Mr. Allky : 



I have delayed acknowledging tlie receipt 

 of the queen for various reasons. 



The queen was in fine condition when re- 

 ceived. A queenless colony was ready to re- 

 ceive her. At night I stupefied the bees with 

 pufl"-ball smoke and then introduced the queen 

 direct to the bees. Two days after I found 

 her "balled." I cauuht the queen and gave 

 the bees a second dose of pufl-ball smoke, 

 but the result was the same. A similar cir- 

 cumstance I never knew to happen before. 



