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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[Oct, 



and day in the hive, and there is a part of the 



bees that repose themselves even in the day time. 



Virgil on the contrary, following Aristotle, says 



Omnibus una quiei operum labor omnibus unus. 



All work together, all together rest. 



WlLLMAN. 



[Translated from Die Honi^biene. 



Is there such a thing- as mutiny among bees? 

 I gave my neighbor a young swarm. The young 

 queen showed herself to be unusually fruitful, 

 and the stock increased in numbers so rapidly 

 that it was expected shortly to cast off a swarm. 



One day there was great excitement in the 

 hive. The bees were running over the glass 

 door, acting as though they had lost their queen, 

 yet at the entrance all was quiet, the bees flying 

 in and out as usual. Such was tho message 

 brought me about noon. Tn the evening I 

 opened the hive and found over half the bees 

 dead, or nearly dead. What had happened here ? 

 Did one part of the bees want to swarm, and 

 were they by violence prevented by those un- 

 willing? 



Mrs. 



[Translated from Die HonigV.ene.] 



Rheumatism and Bee-sting . 



-, had for several years been a 



suffer from Rheumatism. She could find no 

 remedy, until luckily one day she found a notice 

 in a newspaper that the sting of a bee was an 

 excellent remedy for her complaint. She im- 

 mediately asked her husband to bring her some 

 bees, that she might try it. This was in winter 

 during a season of more than ordinary cold. 



He went to the garden and rapped upon the 

 side of one of his hives until the bees appeared, 

 when he seized a number and brought them to 

 his wife. The sting helped for a time, but at 

 the expiration of eight days the pain returned 

 again, and again stings were applied with 

 temporary relief/ This remedy was applied 

 repeatedly during the winter, sometimes two, 

 sometimes three bees being applied at the same 

 time. When spring came both rheumatism and 

 bees were gone, the latter doubtless owing to 

 their being so often disturbed during the winter. 



Dysentery. 

 From Leidfaden zur Bien ngueht. 

 Wm. A. Semlitsch. 

 Dysentery in spring, readily attacks weak 

 swarms, that have had new combs, to winter 

 upon, which are much colder than old ones, and 

 which few bees cannot properly warm. Watery 

 or otherwise bad honey is also a fruitful cause 

 of disease. Weak swarms should never be 

 wintered with new combs ; the well filled combs 

 are preserved in a dry place, and no honey is 

 purchased unless from a trustworthy beekeeper 

 Bees sick with dysentery should be fed with 

 pure honey, the soiled combs are cut out, the 

 space of the hive narrowed, and the bees kept 

 warm. 



Bees are doing well here. I have over one 

 hundred swarms, and have taken over one hun- 

 dred pounds apiece from some of them. I like 

 the Journal very much, especially Novice letters. 



Yours truly, 0. W. Stokes. 



Atchinson, Kan., Aug 24, 1872. 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



I want to ask Novice some questions about his 

 hive. 



1st. In opening the entrance would there not 

 be an opening behind if the bottom was the same 

 size as the hive ? 



2d. Is there not too much space between the 

 frames and the bottom ? 'I wo inches, I think, 

 is too much, for the bees would join the frames 

 with it. 



I would like to try your hive, for you have hit 

 on the very plan I was trying to get at, but could 

 not succeed. C. E WiDENER. 



Cumberland, Md., Sept. 7th, 1872. 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



Central Illinois. 



Mr. Editor : — I stimulated my bees by feed- 

 ing early anel continuously (as they were weak 

 early in spring) until they grew strong anel coulel 

 find flowers to procure honey from ; they in- 

 creased rapielly in numbers, but the result in 

 honey has been poor. Took less than one barrel 

 of extracteel honey, anel have hut little in box 

 that is capped. The white clover anel linden 

 season did not afford the usual amount. I might 

 say they failed in every point up to the present 

 writing. I have plenty of bees, if they had the 

 pasturage to m ke honey from. The first part 

 of the season was fair, but of late we have hael 

 more rain than is useful ; nay, I may say so much 

 rain, that all the sweetness so far, is washed out 

 of the flowers. L. 



1'eoria, 111, Aug. 16, 1872. 



Last fall I had one hundred and ten swarms, 

 mostly in L. L. Langstroth's hives. At the com- 

 mencement of the present honey season, had but 

 thirty-five ; they increased (mostly by artificial 

 swarming) to forty-seven I think I am safe in 

 saying that they have not made four hundred 

 pounds surplus honey. We have plenty of rain. 

 William Troyer. 



Anaman, Henry Co. III., Aug. 23, 1872. 



The season of 1872 has been the worst one for 

 bees in this section of country that I have wit- 

 nessed since I commenced bee-keeping. Last 

 winter a great number of bees perished ; I lost 

 twelve stocks. The honey was gathered in the 

 fall and was rather thin. I suppose that this, in 

 connectiem with their being confined for a long 

 time in their hives, caused the dysentery ; but I 

 am not discouraged, and hope, with the aid of 

 the American Bee Journal, to soon make up my 



loss. JEREMIAH PlCKERlKG. 



Brampton, Ont., Canada. 



