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SI-OO a Yeai — Sample Copy Free. 



37th Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., AUGUST 5, 1897. 



No. 31. 



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Bee- Paralysis Carried by the Queens. 



By DR. E. GALLUP. 



In Dr. C. C. Miller's department on page 361, is a ques- 

 tioL which suggests the heading, "Perhaps Bee-Paralysis." 

 In getting queens from many different breeders I have run 

 across one case of bee-paralysis. The queen came from Ohio. 

 I liked the appearance of the queen and her workers, and 

 altho I saw many dead bees in front of the hive I did not pay 

 any particular attention to the cause until after rearing some 

 five queens from her, and losing them all within a short time 

 after they commenced producing eggs; and one of those 

 queens was hatcht in my observation hive, so I had a grand 

 chance to observe her actions until she swelled up and died 

 with bee-paralysis. I was looking at her when she gave her 

 last kick. I got rid of the disease entirely by Introducing 

 healthy queens from healthy colonies. 



Now for my reasons : You will understand that I have 

 dabbled in fancy poultry and pigeons; have been all through 

 the mill, with cauker, swelled heid, etc., and for the past five 

 years I have had no more of it. I have taught the cure to 

 others, and they do not have it now. It used to be a terrible 

 pest here, and is yet with some breeders. We had any quan- 

 tity of "sure cures," and still the mortality was two-thirds of 

 all the chicks hatcht in many yards. I paid So. 00 for a sit- 

 ting of eggs from a fancier that had swept the premiums at 

 nearly all the fairs in the State. I had a good hatch, but one 

 egg had a full-grown chick in the shell, and I helpt it out with 

 as beautiful and perfect a swelled head as I ever saw. The 

 others all died with swelled head, except two, and from those 

 two I always reared swelled heads to my heart's content. 



I obtained a pair of white fantails from Indiana, also a 

 pair of nuns from Santa Barbara. From neither of those 

 pairs did I ever rear a pigeon, altho I experimented with them 

 for two years. I would hatch their eggs under good, healthy, 

 common pigeons, yet all died with canker from a few days to 

 three weeks old. 



Mr. F. M. Gilbert — the great white fantail pigeon breeder 

 In the United States — had the same experience with canker in 

 his pigeon loft. The conclusion is with poultry, pigeons, etc., 

 that the disease is transmitted In the egg. The cure is, never 



