AMERICAN BEK JOURNAL. 



761 



^P~ Do not write anything for nublication 

 on the same sheet of paper witn business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Bee-Paralysis or Nameless Disease. 



As I have learned a great many useful 

 things from the American Bee Journal, 

 from time to time, and from every direc- 

 tion, I think it every one's duty to answer 

 any question or questions that may be 

 asked by the '' novice "' or the editor; so I 

 will try to tell Mr. Novice (page 630), how 

 he can cure his bees of paralysis, or the 

 nameless bee-disease. 



Usually the bees pull through without 

 any fussing, but sometimes we have a col- 

 ony that wastes very fast, and in order to 

 save them, something must be done, and 

 that quickly. My bees have been troubled 

 every summer with this disease. It seems 

 to affect the old bees first, so far as can be 

 seen ; but if you lift out a comb of hatch- 

 ing brood, and notice closely, you will ob- 

 serve the same shivering motion with the 

 young bees. 



I had a colony the past summer that was 

 reduced to merely nothing before I noticed 

 it, so I thought I would experiment with 

 them. I killed the queen, and gave them a 

 comb of hatching brood, also a young 

 queen, and that was the last of the disease. 

 Lf Mr. Novice will re-queen the colony that 

 first is affected with it, he may never be 

 troubled again. The disease has never 

 spread with me. Try this simple remedy 

 and see. Orville Jones. 



Stockbridge, Mich. 



Another Honey-Seller Like Melbee. 



I suppose that the editor was greatly 

 moved toward feeling good these hard 

 times, when he published, on page 617, Mr. 

 Melbee's method of selling honey. You see 

 now, Mr. York, there are some bee-keepers 

 who will not be discouraged, like I am, on 

 account of the poor season in Mr. Melbee's 

 locality. 



Mr. Melbee is a live man, like the man 

 with whom I have been acquainted for 

 about ten years. He goes around from 

 house to house with a tin pail in his hand, 

 containing a sample of the honey he offers 

 to sell to his customers. I know him well 

 in this town. He sells honey in tin pails 

 holding five pounds each, and gets a big 

 price. He comes regularly every three or 

 four weeks, and stays here several days at 



a time, and attends to his business on the 

 run. The children and mothers, when they 

 see him, call him " The honey -man." 



The amount of honey he sells annually he 

 does not produce himself in his apiary — he 

 purchases it from some other bee-keepers 

 who have more honey than they are able 

 to find a market for at home, giving them 

 a good price, I suppose, for good honey, 

 and when he sells it again, he manages to 

 make about as much as if he did produce 

 the honey himself. F. Blecka. 



Elgin, Ills. 



Foley County, Tex. , and Dr. Miller. 



If Mr. C. Klock, of Frio county, Tex., 

 who has a letter on page 665 of the Bee 

 Journal, will examine a good map of 

 Texas of recent date, he will find Foley 

 county, Tex., located on the Rio Grande 

 river, and a short distance southeast of 

 Pecos county. I presume Foley county 

 was once a part of Presidio county. Horse 

 Head Hills, a range of mountains, are 

 located in Foley county. 



The latest population given for Foley 

 county, that I have seen, is only 16. which 

 would indicate to me that the neighbors 

 would not annoy each other very much by 

 being in too close proximity. What a grand 

 chance this would be for friend C. C. Miller 

 to plant an apiary where he could have an 

 unlimited range for his bees, and all to 

 himself ! M. M. Baldridge. 



St. Charles, 111. 



Best Season (1893) in 5 Years, Etc. 



The past season has been the best for 

 honey that we have had for the past five 

 years. AVhite clover is our main depend- 

 ence in this locality, and it bloomed pro- 

 fusely, and the weather was favorable dur- 

 ing its bloom. We had, spring count, 45 

 colonies — lost 5 during the winter, and 3 

 were so reduced that they just pulled 

 through, but have not produced any sur- 

 plus. We took from them 1,500 pounds of 

 comb and 500 pounds of extracted honey by 

 July 10th, since which time they have only 

 just about made their living. We now 

 (Oct. 24th) have 60 colonies, all told. 



We winter the bees on the summer stands, 

 using the Langstroth 10-frame hive with 

 loose bottoms. For most of our hives we 

 use are an outside case, and pack between 

 with dry leaves, but somehow we are los- 

 ing faith somewhat In these outside cases 

 cfor this locality (southern New York), for 

 the reason that for a few years past we 

 have left a number of our hives unpacked, 

 with single walls, and the percentage of 

 loss was not as great with these hives as 

 with the double-cased. We frequently 

 place two hives, one on top of the other, 

 with four or five frames in each (honey 

 mostly in the top hive), and then put in a 

 division-board on the sides of the frame, 

 and fill in between this and the sides of the 

 hive with leaves. Colonies in hives thus 

 packed generally succeed well. CZI2 



As for non-s warmers, we do not care for 



