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and saved the bee-keepers from burning 

 up a lot of wood in heating water, and 

 wasting their time in boiling hives. 



Mr. C. W. Post, of Murray, Ont., has 

 more colonies of bees than any other man 

 in Canada, and is one of the best bee-keep- 

 ers in the world. He is also a good 

 judge of foul brood. 1 got Mr. Post to 

 come with me to see his neighbor, Mr. 

 Ezra Bonter, who had an apiary of 40 

 colonies that had foul brood so horridly 

 bad when I first examined it that the 

 stench from it was almost unbearable. 

 I got every colony cured in the same old 

 hives without any scalding. Mr. Post 

 and I examined every comb in every 

 colony, and found them completely 

 cured, and all the colonies in grand con- 

 dition. 



When I get a little time I will give the 

 cause of a lot of dead brood that is 

 found in colonies in June, and how to 

 manage all colonies so as to never have 

 any dead brood in any colony at any 

 time. I will also send some letters that 

 I got, to the American Bee Journal, 

 and through it answer the questions in 

 them. None of the writers of these 

 letters need be afraid that I will ever 

 " give away " their names. 



Woodburn, Ont., Canada. 



Why Du Some Suffer from Bee- 

 Stings and Others Xot 'i 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY H. F. COLEMAN. 



The above question, as asked by Emm 

 Dee in the American Bee Journal of 

 June 1, 1893, has not yet, in my opin- 

 ion, been fully answered. The solution 

 of this question, however, is of but little 

 consequence to bee-keepers, but we all 

 desire to know the truth, even if the 

 truth is of little consequence to us. So 

 we will go to the solution. 



The degree of suffering as the result 

 of a bee-sting is governed by the state 

 of the nervous system of the person re- 

 ceiving the sting. If the nerves are at 

 a high tension, the suffering is acute, 

 the pain severe and continued. If the 

 nerves are low, the suffering is less 

 acute, the pain is not so severe, and not 

 of as long duration. 



To prove this, let a bee sting the 

 afllicted part of a person suffering with 

 paralysis. If the affliction is severe, the 

 pain from the sting will not be per- 

 ceived. I have had some experience 

 along this line, that I will give. 



Some years ago I overworked myself 



mentally in my profession, and brought 

 on nervous prostration. By the use of 

 nervines, and the closest attention to 

 hygienic rules, I have recovered so as to 

 be able to labor again, but have at times 

 a very low state of nerves. At other 

 times, by the use of nux vomica, or other 

 nervines, my nerves are normal, and I 

 now want no better guide to the state of 

 my nerves than the pain from bee-stings. 

 If the pain is scarcely perceptible, which 

 it is at times, I know that I need a few 

 doses of some nervine, and after taking 

 them, if I receive a sting, I can see a 

 marked difference — the pain is more 

 severe. 



Any one can verify the truth of this 

 position, by running his nerves down by 

 the use of tobacco, and letting bees sting 

 him while his nerves are so run down ; 

 and then toning them up by using nux 

 vomica, and letting bees sting him while 

 they are thus toned up. 



Sneedville, Tenn. 



[Although Mr. Coleman tells how to 

 go about the experiment to prove his 

 statement, we wouldn't advise any one 

 to thus begin the use of tobacco. It is 

 better never to know the truth than to 

 have to resort to such means to find it 

 out. Mr. C. simply has told how the ex- 

 periment could be made, but of course he 

 wouldn't wish a non-user of the weed to 

 thus experiment. Don't do it, lest it 

 might cause you to become a victim to 

 what is, to us, the useless, filthy and dis- 

 gusting habits of the tobacco slave. — 



Ed.] 



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Bees Rearing Young, and Not 

 Sealing Up the Cells. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY B. C. FOWKE. 



I notice on page 268, that Mr. Otto 

 Banker asks what caused his bees to 

 rear young, and not cap all they reared. 

 My belief is that his bees became queen- 

 less and remained so for some time, or 

 had an inferior queen which caused 

 them not to have any, or not a sufficient 

 amount of newly-hatched bees to do the 

 capping, which, in my opinion, generally 

 do this part of the work. 



As to the uncapped brood dying, I 

 would say that it was caused by being 

 exposed, as there was not enough bees 

 in the hiVe to protect them from any 

 change of the weather, or from moths. 



