colonies should be afflicted with the same 

 trouble. Without looking into the hives we 

 are not able to offer you any satisfactory 

 explanation. — Ed.] 



Hive Indicator. 



The illustration represents the cover of my 

 eight-frame hive divided into three two- 

 frame nuclei for queen-rearing. You will 

 notice that all records for dates can be kept 

 by using two small nails — one for the month 

 and the other for the day. The pointer in- 

 dicates conditions; O, queenless; C, cell; V, 

 virgin; S, saw, but not laying; L, laying. 

 I use a small brick as soon as laying begins, 

 so I can see at a glance where my laying 

 queens are, clear across the yard. The 

 brirks I use are 2x4x%, made of cement; 

 and I use them exclusively on full colonies 

 when requeening. 



MONTH 

 6 7 8 9 



10 



2 

 IZ. 

 2*2 







DATE 

 4-6 8 



14 

 2*4 



16 ^ r 



2*6 * Z.*8 



e y s 



30 

 ■31 



'^»- 



/^ A ^" 

 iV 



oe 's'p \ sz ' f'z ' zz 

 ot ' e'l 9*( ti ' zi 



0*1 ' 9 * 9 * +■ ' ^ * 

 01 6 9 2 9 S 



0?_ 91 ° 91 * -^1 Z\ 



o"i e . 9 ^t' I s 



6\ 6 9 I 9 S 



Correction: Instead of E for eggs it would 

 be better to have C for cell. 



Forest, Ont. I. Langstroth. 



Requeening for Paralysis. 



I want to give my plan of getting rid of 

 bee paralysis. This disease got in my bees 

 from queens that I bought. I hated to kill 

 these fine queens, but soon two-thirds of my 

 colonies were affected. At this time about 

 half of them were black. I tried several 

 plans, but it kept coming back. I finally 

 found a plan that eradicated the trouble, and 

 I am willing for others to try it. 



Kill the queen, and eight days afterward 

 cut out all the queen-cells that have been 

 started, and provide eggs from a queen that 

 has never had paralysis. Let the bees raise 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



their own queen in the hive right with the 

 sick bees. They will not swarm out, even if 

 they have a dozen cells. This plan gets rid 

 of the trouble, and it will not return. 



I have some colonies that have never 

 shown the least sign of paralysis, altho bees 

 from colonies all around were dying. It is 

 these colonies that I get the eggs irom for 

 breeding. 



No doubt some queen-breeders do not pay 

 enough attention to this matter. They are 

 careful to breed from stock that does not 

 become diseased. Colonies headed by such 

 queens will live right in the midst of these 

 and not show the least sign of it. 



Mathews, Ala. M. S. Nordan. 



The Liability of Express Companies in the 

 Shipment of Bees. 



If I sell to John Doe, Canada, swarms of 

 live bees with queens, f. o. b. Fitzpatrick, 

 Ala., and I deliver them to express company, 

 get their receipt for the same and mail it to 

 John Doe in Canada, and there is unwarranted 

 delay, is the express company liable if bees 

 are dead? In 1915 and 1914 like shipments 

 were delivered in three days and four hours 

 to same party after leaving here. This year 

 the bees were on the road from 8 to 16 days, 

 and were dead, or nearly so, when delivered. 

 The question is, Should John Doe pay me for 

 bees I sent him, and he, John Doe, look to 

 express company for value of bees not deliv- 

 ered alive? Or should I not look to John 

 Doe for price of bees, and express company 

 pay me? I refer you to my ad. in Gleanings. 



Fitzpatrick, Ala. W. D. Achord. 



[An express company comes under the laws 

 and is a common carrier. While it may 

 receive goods, issuing a receipt which does 

 not agree to land the article received at 

 destination at any specific time, yet there is 

 reason in all things, and the express com- 

 panies, thru the operation and contracts with 

 the railroads over which they operate, main- 

 tain published schedules. 



Shipments are based a great many times 

 on these schedules, expecting (aside from the 

 acts of God), goods to reach destination at 

 least within a reasonable number of hours of 

 their schedule time. 



From points, for instance, within the ter- 

 ritory in which we are located, termed the 

 central states, there is no point within the 

 United States and a greater j^art of Canada 

 that schedules do not show that shipments 

 may be reached not to exceed seven days; 

 schedules for the Pacific Coast in about five 

 days, these figures allowing a little time for 

 unavoidable misconnections. From points 

 within the state of Alabama to any point in 

 the territory of Ontario, Canada, allowing 

 for above delays, excepting acts of God, ship- 

 ments should be delivered in not to exceed 

 five days. 



Shipments from such points, especially in 

 the case of perishable live stock or live bees, 

 S to 16 days would be considered a basis for 

 claim in the eyes of the law, excepting 



