1904 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



379 



of that cellar between 43 to 50 degrrees above 

 zero, if it is possible to do so. Then do not 

 let the dead bees accumulate on the floor 

 and mold there, thus makings the air untit 

 for an\' animil life. And if you have any 

 outdoors, and the mercury rises to 45 to 50 

 degrees in the shade, with the sun shining- 

 brightl_v, and the atmosphere still, let them 

 have a cleansing flight, no matter if the 

 ground is covered with snow. Bees can get 

 off the snow just as well as from any other 

 place if the tiir and temperature are right. 

 See that the colonies have sufficient stores 

 for winter in early fall, so there is no dan- 

 ger from their starving; and if to be vvin- 

 ered out, pack them and fix for winter while 

 the weather is still mild. Put on your sec- 

 tions and take them ofi at the right time, 

 and always crate your honey before you 

 sell it, as this will give it a much nicer ap- 

 pearance. Oh! there is so much to do that, 

 were I to tell you all at once, you would be 

 discouraged and forget half I tell you." 

 "Well, but how am I to learn?" 

 "When you get your bees, take your 

 Quinby bcok and go right out with the bees 

 and put it in practice, and also whatever 

 you read 'n the bee- pa per ycu take, if it 

 seems good to you; that is what you want 

 to prove by the bees. In short, 'live with 

 them' till you get these things learned (what 

 you read) or proven, and that will give 30U 

 the education you need. But I must leave 

 now, as I have an appointment to meet." 



THE WOULD-BE INVENTORS OF BREDOM. 



In the American Bee Journal for Feb. 11 

 appears an editorial with the above head- 

 ing. As the experience of the editor of that 

 jjurnal is almost exactly the same as ours, 

 I reproduce here the first paragraph: 



A leading writer of ?acred wiil once sa d. "Of the 

 making of books there is no end." Almost the s-ame 

 thing can be said of the making of new hivts It is 

 getting to be almost a fid in Ihe-e < ays for certain 

 b e-keepers to have a hive of their own. Of course, 

 each new hive gotten up (by themi is far supeiior to 

 anj other, no matter whether it is half so grod as 

 some that hive been thoroughly tried by the majority 

 ol bte keepers! The strange part of itall is that the 

 would be invtrntois of ihtse new fads in hives are so 

 queer as to think that heepipers ought to devote half 

 of their space to pushing the s=ile of thtse n-w ci< a- 

 tions. Yes, certain of them have gone so far as to or- 

 der their bee papeis discontinued because the editois 

 did not see ii tht ir duty to insist upon the bee-kf eping 

 public using their new hivts. No doubt the discon- 

 tinuers thought they would kill the bee papers if they 

 stopped subscribing for them. Rut they might be sur- 

 piised if thty knew the papers //^r^' discontinued were 

 iiaving more readers all the time 



A short time ago one of our customers as 

 much as told us that a certain hive was 

 very much better than any thing else on 



the market, and that it would eventually 

 run every thing else out of the countr3'. He 

 went on to say that the leaders, indicating 

 the editors and suppl\ -manufacturers, did 

 not want to recognize its merits. For these 

 and other reasons he withdrew his patron- 

 age from our journal, supposing that that 

 act of his would bring us to our senses. 

 Queer world, this! or, rather, there are 

 some queer people in it. 



BEE-PARALYSIS HEREDITARY; SULPHUR CURE 

 A SUCChSS. 



Mr. O. O. Poppleton, of Stuart, Fla., 

 who gave to the bee keeping world the first 

 successful method of curing bee-paralysis 

 by means of powdered sulpnur, has proba- 

 bly had as good an opportunity for study- 

 ing this peculiar disease, which had hith- 

 erto baffled all fftorts at cure, as any other 

 man in the United States. In the March 

 issue of the American Bee-keeper he con- 

 firms an opinion that has been expressed 

 manjf a time, that bee paralysis is heredi- 

 tary, or, rather, he goes on to state that the 

 "disease seems to be much more prevalent 

 in certain str tins or fimilies of bees. At 

 least four times in the last ten \ears I have 

 had to destroy utterly certain queens and 

 all their daughters, nearly all cases in my 

 apiary being confined to these particular 

 bees. Certain queens seem to transmit the 

 germs of the distase through queen daugh- 

 ters to their progeny." 



He observes, further, that "colonies which 

 have had the disease one season, but recov- 

 ered without treatment of any kind, are 

 much more liable to hnve the disease next 

 season." And, again, " It is the old bees, 

 the field workers, that die." 



It may be interesting to mention at this 

 time that others have followed Mr. Popple- 

 ton's method of treatment with entire suc- 

 cess, which is nothing more nor less than 

 sprinkling the infected combs with pow- 

 dered sulphur, then repeating the treat- 

 ment a week or so later, and again if nec- 

 essary. 



A DAMAGE BEE- SUIT IN WHICH THE N. B. K. 

 A. COMES OUT VICTORIOUS. 



In our issue for Nov 1, 1^03, page 916, we 

 gave the details of a peculiar ( not to say ri- 

 diculous) suit in which a member of the Na- 

 tional Ais-^^ ciaticn, Mr. J. W. Pierson, also 

 Secretary of the New York State A&scciation 

 of Bt e-keepers' Societies, was made the de- 

 fendant in a case in which it was alleged 

 that a horse belonging to the plaintiff was 

 stung by the defendant's bees. It is said 

 that the plaintiff would have never begun 

 the action but for a ctrtain attorney, and 

 there are plenty of tliem ready to appeal to 

 prejudice. Some ver} queer statements 

 were made in the petition. The plaintiff 

 (or, rather, his attorney) averred that his 

 horse was in the clover- field pasturing; 

 that the bees were working heavily on the 

 clover ; that subsequently the horse was 

 found fast in a barbed-wire fence, its nose 



