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Nameless Bee-Disease.— Mr. 



Jacob Moore, of Ionia, Mich., wrote us 

 as follows on July 6, 1892, about the 

 peculiar actions of his bees : 



My bees have something the matter 

 with them, and I cannot tell what it is. 

 In the morning they will come out and 

 seem powerless to fly, but scamper away 

 from their hives and die. They do not 

 seem to be bloated, and they cannot be 

 old. All the colonies seem to be alike — 

 27 in number. What is the trouble, 

 and what is the remedy ? Bees have 

 gathered but little honey up to the pres- 

 ent time, but they are gathering now. 

 Jacob Mooke. 



Upon receipt of the foregoing, we re- 

 ferred the matter to Prof. Cook, who 

 gives his opinion thus : 



If there were any flowers now out that 

 were likely to be sprayed with the 

 arsenites, I should think that Mr. 

 Moore's bees had been poisoned. It does 

 not seem a typical case of the " nameless 

 bee-disease." It may be the malady in 

 a modified form. I suggest that he give 

 salt water liberally, and if no improve- 

 ment is observed, to replace the queen 

 with a new one. I believe that Dr. 

 Miller has no faith in this cure ; but so 

 many have reported to me success by its 

 adoption, that I am disposed to think it 

 effective. I have never had occasion to 

 try it personally.— A. J. Cook. 



Bees in a Candy Store. — In a 



recent issue of the Utica, N. Y., Globe, 

 was an account of some bees, that, being 

 attracted by sweets, invaded a confec- 

 tionery store in New Brunswick, N. J., 

 last month, The lively experience had 

 with the bees will not soon be forgotten 

 by those who occupied the store. Bees 

 generally seem to "want the earth," 

 and almost as frequently they get it, 

 too, without much opposition on the part 

 of some people. The following is the 

 item referred to : 



A few bees, apparently attracted by 

 the odor of sweets, entered the confec- 

 tionery store of Frank T. Theburg last 

 Friday. Mr. Theburg and his clerk 

 were behind the counter, and in a rear 

 room four men were at work making 

 fresh candy. The bees were " shooed " 

 out without difficulty, but it would ap- 

 pear that they were only a prospecting 



party. About 10:15 o'clock a very large 

 swarm entered the rear room through a 

 window. The men then fled into the 

 store. Mr. Theburg hurried around the 

 counter to close the window in the rear 

 room, but when he reached the doorway 

 he could hardly see the window. The 

 room was black with bees. His employes 

 in the store were lashing towels furi- 

 ously to right and left, but the bees only 

 buzzed the louder, and stung the harder, 

 and soon all the men rushed into the 

 street. 



On Saturday some one told him that 

 if he caught the queen-bee and took her 

 out, or killed her, the rest would leave 

 the place. 



" George," he said to his clerk, " go 

 and catch the queen-bee." 



George did not do so. On Saturday, 

 ordinarily the busiest day in the week, 

 no business was done. Yesterday Mr. 

 Theburg began to burn sulphur. He 

 bought a pile of it, built a fire in a big 

 can, and put the sulphur on it, made a 

 wild rush into the rear room, with his 

 face and hands protected, set the can on 

 the floor, and flew out again. This 

 morning he filled a small box with the 

 dead bees he found on the floor. There 

 are still several hundred crawling about 

 in the show-windows, but the floor is 

 strewn with dead bees, and those that 

 still crawl will die within a few days. 



Two of the Cannon, which, it 

 is believed, were at one time mounted 

 on board Christopher Columbua' flagship, 

 were received at Chicago recently. The 

 cannon are of the ancient and clumsy 

 pattern of such guns turned out in the 

 fifteenth century. Nothing but the 

 body of the guns remains, the woodwork, 

 of course, having rotted away centuries 

 ago. The guns themselves are almost 

 worn to pieces, and are not much more 

 than huge chunks of rust. Indeed, the 

 cannon are put on the "scrap iron " list 

 in the Custom House papers. These 

 historic old pieces have been secured for 

 exhibition at the World's Fair. One of 

 the naval officers who was detailed for 

 work in connection with the Columbian 

 Exposition, found the relics at one of 

 the West Indian islands. Tradition 

 and substantial proof showed that the 

 cannon had been used in a fort erected 

 by Columbus' son, and that they were 

 brought from Spain with Columbus' 

 fleet. The ruins of the fort are still to 

 be seen. 



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