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later many of them were nearly full, 

 proving a success in moving without loss. 



There were, last season, 22,000 acres 

 planted to beans, and the crop amounted 

 to nearly 1,000 carloads. These figures 

 I have gotten from the bean men. 



This season was late for bloom. I 

 noticed the first bloom the last of June, 

 but not much honey is 'gathered from the 

 first two weeks' blooiu^one of my api- 

 aries has been gathering honey for only 

 two weeks back ; noiv all colonies are 

 crowding their queens with honey of 

 light color and good flavor. 



I should mention that the main va- 

 rieties of beans planted are Limas and 

 small whites, but there are many other 

 varieties planted. 



Later in the season I shall try to get 

 the exact number of acres planted to 

 beans, also the amount of beans raised, 

 and general results. The crop will be 

 immense. 



Ventura, Calif., Aug. 7, 1893. 



Bee-Paralysis aud Starvation 

 ^vitli Plenty of Honey. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY H. F. COLEMAN. 



The fall season of the year Is now 

 coming, and with it we may expect the 

 usual amount of bee-paralysis, and we 

 should remember that stimulating by 

 proper feeding is almost, if not quite, a 

 specific for the disease. 



In this connection, it is well enough to 

 say that it is not every case of bees 

 dying in large numbers from a hive, that 

 is a case of bee-paralysis. It is some- 

 times hard to distinguish between this 

 disease and starvation. At this season 

 of the year bees frequently starve with 

 plenty of honey in their hives, and we 

 are apt to class such cases as bee-paral- 

 ysis. 



I think I hear some one say — Mrs. 

 Atchley, for instance — Coleman, are you 

 certain that bees sometimes starve with 

 honey in their hive ? That is just ex- 

 actly what I mean, but let it be under- 

 stood that I do not mean that whole col- 

 onies starve with honey in their hives. 



Not long since I was passing through 

 my apiary, and saw the bees carrying 

 out young, downy bees from one of my 

 best colonies, headed by a golden queen. 

 I knew the colony had plenty of honey, 

 but I thought I would make an investi- 

 gation, anyway ; and upon investigating 

 I found that the honey in the hive was 



confined to the outside combs, and that 

 the combs from which the bees were 

 hatching contained no honey at all, and 

 that the bees just hatched" were weak 

 and actually dying of starvation with 

 plenty of honey only two or three combs 

 from them. I shifted a comb containing 

 honey, so as to give the hatching bees 

 access to it, and the remedy was com- 

 plete. The young bees quit dying in a 

 few minutes, and have not died any 

 since. This is only one of many in- 

 stances of the same kind that have come 

 under my observation, but it will suffice 

 to establish the fact in question. 



The idea that hatched bees feed each 

 other, only as they do incidentally when 

 honey is coming in, is not in accord with 

 my experience, and is, in my opinion, at 

 variance with the truth. When honey 

 is coming in, the field bees deliver it to 

 the younger bees, and the younger bees 

 store or consume it, as may be de- 

 manded ; but when no honey is coming 

 in, every adult bee helps herself, and if, 

 in such cases, she should happen to be 

 so situated that she cannot find the 

 honey, starvation is the result, though 

 honey may be in the hive. 



Sneedville, Tenn., Aug. 15, 1893, 



The IVew York State Honey Ex- 

 hibit at the IVoricl's Fair. 



Written for the American BeeJmimal 



BY DR. A. B. MASON. 



I have read, on page 309, Mr. O. L. 

 Hershiser's comments on what I said on 

 pages 200 and 201 of the American 

 Bee Journal, in regard to the New 

 York honey exhibit, to which I wish to 

 make a reply. 



Please let me preface what I may say, 

 with the statement that Mr. Hershiser 

 and myself are the best of friends, and' 

 would be glad to do, and do do, each 

 other favors whenever opportunity of- 

 fers, and I believe he has no feeling 

 against me, and I knoio I have none 

 against him. 



I wish also to say that in commenting 

 on the editorial on page 137, which 

 seems, by Mr. Hershier's article, to have 

 been furnished by Mr. H. himself, I did 

 not call attention to all the misstate- 

 ments that seemed to me to be quite 

 large. For instance, the editor says in 

 speaking of the space it occupies,. " It 

 occupies a floor space approximately 

 30x50 feet," which equals 1,500 feet 

 of floor, when, in fact, taking the edi- 

 tor's, or rather Mr. H.'s figures, it oc- 



