AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Bees Atfected witli tlie Diarrhea 

 While in the Cellar. 



Query 893.— What should you do when you 

 find a colony affected with the diarrhea in the 

 cellar, and it was too early or too cold to give 

 them a cleansing flight by removing them 

 temporarily from the cellar ?— Nebr. 



We wait. — Dadant & Son. 



Nothing. — J. H. Larrabee. 



Nothing. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Let them alone.— P. H. Elwood. 



I would try moving it to a warm room 

 some evening. — Eugene Secor. 



Give plenty of air to the hive, and let 

 them alone. — G. M. Doolittle. 



Try to be more cautious so that the 

 experience would not be repeated. — A. 

 J. Cook. 



I do not know. I would not put them 

 in the cellar, to begin with. — Emerson 

 T. Abbott. 



Let it alone, and look to the condition 

 of the cellar, and change what might be 

 wrong with it. — A. B. Mason. 



I should let them severely alone, until 

 a day arrived when they could safely be 

 given a cleansing flight. — W.M.Barnum. 



I should let them severely alone; or, 

 if I did anything, I should put them out 

 and let them " gang their ain gait." — J. 

 E. Pond. 



Nothing, except to have the hive wide 

 open at the bottom, and to keep the 

 temperature well up — to 45°, or higher. 

 — R. L. Taylor. 



Warm up the cellar with a fire. Some 

 one has suggested peppermint dropped 

 on blotting paper and put in the bottom 

 of the hive. — 0. C. Miller. 



If I found the bees affected with diar- 

 rhea, I should try to give them a dryer 

 place to live in. I think the trouble is 

 too low a temperature, and too damp. — 

 E. France. 



Place them in a box that you can 

 make dark ; put in two or three hot 

 bricks, and put the hive on top of the 

 bricks. Remove the top, so the hot air 

 will go up, and use judgment with what 

 you are doing. — H. D. Cutting. 



Raise the covers by inserting an 8- 

 penny nail under each corner. Also re- 

 move the blanket, if they have one, and 

 open the entrance wide. Keep the tem- 

 perature at about 45°, and the cellar 

 dark and quiet. — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



I do not winter bees in a cellar. If I 

 did, and should find a colony in the con- 

 dition indicated, I should let them 

 severely alone until such time as they 

 could have a good flight. Any tinker- 

 ing, or doctoring, would only hasten the 

 end. — M. Mahin. 



If they were badly affected, I should 

 give them a flight the very first warm, 

 sunny day that came along. I should 

 very much prefer not to be caught with 

 bees in that condition in winter. Better 

 see in time that they have something 

 besides honey-dew to live on. — C. H. 



DiBBERN.. 



I am, by your question, like the mule 

 was that could not swim. The river was 

 up ; a bale of hay on one side, and the 

 mule on the other. How was the mule 

 to get the hay, as there was no bridge. 

 Weil, he had to give it up. So if it is 

 too bad for every thing, I would give it 

 up. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



If they have been kept on natural 

 stores, try feeding them on granulated 

 sugar syrup, and raise the temperature 

 of the cellar, if you can manage to do 

 so. If only one out of many was af- 

 fected, and the rest quiet, it might pay 

 better to sacrifice one than risk chang- 

 ing the surroundings of the whole lot. — 

 S. I. Freeborn. 



I do not think it would pay to try to 

 do anything with them, though some 

 have reported success by placing the 

 hive in a gauze or wire-cloth cage in a 

 warm room for a time, then lowering 

 the temperature gradually until the bees 

 return to the hive. You might experi- 

 ment by varying the temperature of the 

 cellar, giving more ventilation, etc. — 

 James A. Green. 



If the bees are worth the trouble and 

 expense, such a colony can be cured by 

 stripping the hive of all covering, close 

 in the bees with wire-cloth, and set the 

 hive in a heated room for at least 12 

 hours. My experiments on this line 

 made and published in the old American 

 Bee Journal some years ago, proved 



