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VOL XXXIII. CHICAGO, ILL, JUNE 21, 1894. 



NO. 25. 



Condense*! Reports from the mem- 

 bers of the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will be found on page 793 of this 

 number of the Bee Journal. They show 

 the honey prospects, number of colonies, 

 etc. 



Bees nncl Horticiiltiire is a sub- 

 ject that has received much consideration 

 of late in various parts of the country, par- 

 ticularly in California. Bro. C. P. Dadant, 

 on page 790 of this issue of the Bee Jour- 

 nal, gives something very interesting and 

 conclusive on this subject. It will pay you 

 to read it, and also remember what he says. 



Honey in a PetriMed Tree. — In 



Science Siftinga is an account of an interest- 

 ing find reported to have been made in 

 Texas. While workmen were digging a 

 well on a farm near Bandora, they un- 

 earthed a petrified tree at a depth of 46 

 feet. The tree was hollow, and the cavity 

 was filled with honey. The comb was in a 

 perfect state of preservation, and the cells 

 were filled with honey that tasted sweet, 

 fresh and pure. How old this honey is 

 cannot be known, but it must have taken 

 centures to have buried the tree to that 

 depth, and caused its petrification by nat- 

 ural causes. 



Snlplinr for Bee-Paralysis. — In 



the AuatraUan Bee-Ballet'iK. for April, which 

 we received June 11th, we find the follow- 

 ing from a correspondent on the use of 

 powdered sulphur for curing bee-paralysis: 



Some few days ago I wrote you that I 

 was trying the sulphur cure for bee-paraly- 

 sis, and in your reply you asked me to let 

 you know the results. Well, I can say con- 

 scientiously that it is the best cure I have 

 tried yet. I have 20 colonies, and all were 

 suffering more or less, with the exception 

 of hives with the full width of end open. I 

 gave the frames and bees a good powder- 

 ing, using about four, pounds of sulphur on 

 the 30 hives; I only gave them the one 

 dose, and the disease is thoroughly cured. 



The use of sulphur in the treatment of 

 bee-paralysis may have been suggested be- 

 fore, but if so we have failed to see it. It 

 certainly is a simple remedy, and we should 

 be glad to hear from those who have tried 

 it in this country. If it has not been used, 

 perhaps some bee-keeper whose bees are 

 suffering from the disease will at once ap- 

 ply the sulphur remedy, aud then report 

 results to the Bee Journal. 



J^o Cause for It!— A little Buffalo 

 girl visiting in the country was stung by a 

 bee. She didn't seem to mind the pain so 

 very much, but, as her disposition was 

 sensitive, she ran sobbing to her mother 

 with the statement: "I don't see what he 

 did it for, 'cause I hadn't done a thing to 

 him!" 



Xlie Amateur Bee-Keeper. —This 

 is the name of a book written by Prof. J. 

 W. Rouse, of Missouri. Here is what the 

 Bee- Keepers^ Meview says of it : 



A book for beginners is something often 

 called for. Mr. J. W. Rouse has written a 



