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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



itecT in it, must be stirred, a little more Epsom 

 salt added, before the warmed food is poured 

 on, and the whole well stirred again. Care 

 must be taken while feeding, not to attract the 

 bees of other colonies, so as to induce attempts 

 at robbing, as the bees under treatment are not 

 in condition to resist an attack successfully. 

 By their more energetic and active flight, and 

 by the speedy renewal of their combs, the bees 

 will soon manifest the efficacy of this treatment; 

 and the healthy development of brood will 

 show that the cure is tnorough, though the bees 

 continue in the hive in which the disease origi- 

 nated. 



I submit this prescription, which I have al- 

 ways found effectual, that other beekeepers in 

 whose apiaries foulbrood prevails, may also test 

 it — though I feel entire confidence that none 

 will make the experiment without satisfactory 

 results. I may add that I do not presume to 

 say tliat all the ingredients mentioned are indis- 

 pensably required, but hitherto I have not omit- 

 ted any, when preparing the mixture — the whole 

 used together, as directed, having always ac- 

 complished a thorough cure." 



Mr. Schieberle does not believe that the in- 

 fection is communicated by the use of honey 

 derived from stocks in which the disease exists. 

 One of his colonies having accidentally ob- 

 tained access to such honey, carried the whole 

 of it into their hive without becoming diseased. 

 He also states that he has used such honey in 

 feeding healthy stocks without injurious results. 

 His opinion is that the diffusion of the malady 

 is efiected by diseased bees, which emigrate 

 from infected stocks to such as are still healthy, 

 and abide there. Respecting the original source 

 or cause of the disease, he hazards no conjec- 

 ture. 



" His communication was received with great 

 applause by the convention. 



(lC^"Since the foregoing article was put in 

 type, we have learned that at Pforzheim, in Ba- 

 den, a colony of bees sufl"ering from foulbrood 

 has been treated in the manner directed by Mr. 

 Schieberle, and that no symptoms of this disease 

 were perceptible weeks afterward, though the 

 newly built combs contained an abundance of 

 sealed brood. 



The Egyptian Bee. 



Through the agency of the "Society of Ac- 

 climatization," at Berlin, in Prussia, the vari- 

 ety of the honey bee prevalent in Egypt, has 

 been imparted and introduced in Germany. 

 Mr. Vogel, of Custrin, in whose charge the im- 

 ported colony was placed by the society, has 

 been successful in multiplying stock, and pre- 



serving its purity; and several young queens 

 have already been sent to England. 



We understand that arrangements have been 

 made to bring this variety to this country at an 

 early day. It differs from both the common 

 and the Italian bee, in size and marking, and 

 is stated to be quite as gentle in temperament 

 as the latter, while the breed is more easily kept 

 pure. 



We have full accounts of this bee — the api» 

 fasciata — in Prof. Gerstaker's essay on the geo- 

 graphical distribution of the honey, and on Mr. 

 Vogel' s descriptive treatise — from which we 

 shall furnish our readers with such details, in 

 the next and succeeding numbers of this jour- 

 nal, as cannot fail to prove interesting. 



We learn that an extension of the Rev. \j. L. 

 Langstroth's patent for his movable comb hive, 

 has been granted by the Commissioner of Pat- 

 ents. By the terms of the patent laws the ex- 

 tension is for seven years from the 5th day of 

 October, 1866, inclusive. See hts advertisement 

 on the cove}'. 



C^We propose preparing, and publishing in 

 successive numbers of the Bee Journal, a list 

 of all the existing patents relating to beehives, 

 with illustrative drawings, and giving the 

 claims in each case in detail. This will enable 

 our readers to inform themselves of the peculiar 

 features of each invention, and to understand 

 precisely what the patent is intended to cover. 



The study of the natural history of the bee 

 furnishes useful instruction to the human mind. 

 The singularity of the means which the Author 

 of nature has chosen for preserving the species 

 of bees, is particularly observable. The moth- 

 ers, which in almost all other instances, are ihe 

 watchful and tender nurses of their young, we 

 find in this instance only give them birth ""'The 

 duty of rearing them is committed to substitutes, 

 the workers, and these, as nursing mothers, man- 

 ifest precisely the same afiection towards the 

 young of their species, as we observe in the 

 real mothers of other animals. 



It is the working bees that form the great 

 class on which the welfare of a hive principally 

 depends. Without their incessant aiil, the 

 males, the queen, and even the brood itself, 

 would quickly perish. And while the presence 

 of a queen is essential to their safety, thej^ are 

 no less requisite for her preservation. 



It is contrary to the nature of bees to suffer 

 any uncleanly substance to remain in their 

 hives. Some of them act the part of scaven- 

 gers by freeing the hive of all nuisances. 



