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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Oct. 5, 1899. 



FASTENING FOUNDATION IN SECTIONS. 



" Best method of fastening- foundation in sections." 

 Pres. Jones spoke on the subject. He told about a fast- 

 ener he made himself, which was better than the Daisy, as 

 the latter did not do neat work ; while the heating plate of 

 his machine slants to the front, causing the melted wax to 

 run into the .section, that of the Daisy causes the wax to 

 run to the back, over the lamp and everything. He has 

 objections to those already on the market. 



Mr. Scholl was requested to show the workings of his 

 foundation fastener, which was generally endorst. 



GETTING SECTIONS WELL FILLED. 



"How can we get section honey well filled all around ?" 



Mr. SchoII- Use the Hyde-Scholl separators, and see. 



H. H. Hyde, E. J. Atcliley and others advised using the 

 Hyde-Scholl separators and full sheets of foundation. 



O. P. Hyde — There are four things necessary : 1st, an 

 overflowing colony of bees; 2nd, a good honey-flow; 3rd, 

 full sheets of foundation ; 4th, Hj'de-SchoU separator. 



BEE-PARALYSIS. 



"Bee-paralysis; can it be cured ? If so, how?" 



Messrs. Davenport, Atchley, the Hydes and others said 

 they didn't know. 



Mr. Brown's experience was given. He described the 

 bees with the disease. They lookt sleek and shiny, and 

 swelled up ; trembled all over, and were generally carried 

 out by their comrades ; used salt and water in barrels where 

 bees got to it — about one tablespoonful of salt to a bucket 

 of water. The first year he did not see any difference, but 

 the second year it disappeared. He did not know exactly 

 whether this cured it, or whether it was something else. 



Mr. Davidson had but little experience with it. Diseased 

 bees are sleek and shiny. Don't mistake robber-bees for 

 them, as the diseased bees are swelled up, and tremble ; 

 otherwise they look shiny, like robbers. 



Mr. Davenport gave his father's experience. Remedy : 

 One-half honey and one-half sugar, boil and strain. Feed 

 to the bees after night. The disease disappeared. 



Pres. Jones had several cases, and tried the following 

 solution, applied with an atomizer ; thorolj' saturated all 

 parts of the hive and combs, and the third day the bees 

 started to work again and gathered a good crop : 



Sulpho calcine '.< ounce, salt 2 ounces, dissolved in one 

 pint of water; add one pound of extracted honey. Mix 

 thoroly and apply. Remove the diseased colony a few feet, 

 put a new clean hive in its place, and put the coinbs back 

 into it. 



The next year he weakened the solution, and on the 

 fifth day there were still signs of paralysis. After a week 

 it was gone, and the bees commenced work. 



Mr. Brovi-n tried some experiments to see how conta- 

 gious it was. He hived swarms with colonies having the 

 disease after the bees all hatcht, and there was no more 

 paralysis after that. 



Mr. Atchley said that he, long ago, with Dr. Howard, 

 made several microscopic observations, and found that cer- 

 tain food taken by the bees, without having cleansing 

 flights, caused them to get a fever, which they then called 

 "bee- fever." 



[Concluded uext week.] 



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DK. C. C AirZ,Z,BR. A/oreng-o, 111. 



(The Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal office, or to Dr. Miller 



direct, when he will answer them here. Please do not ask the 



Doctor to send answers by mail.— Editor.] 



What Causes the Brood to Die? 



In examining the bees in this county, I find in some 

 places about one-half the sealed brood is dead. No one 

 here seems to know the cause or any remedy for it. Unless 

 it can in some way be checkt, it will ruin the bee-industry, 

 I think. It is entirely unlike foul brood. The unhatcht 

 dead bees are fully-developt in size and all their parts, but 

 die before hatching, turn a dark color, and dry up in the 

 cell. In view of Ihe fact that most of the bees here have 

 been in-bred for j'ears, and no new blood from any source 

 introduced, I have been inclined to believe it might be 

 caused by in-breeding. Colorado. 



Answer. — Continued in-breeding for years might re- 

 sult in a weakening of constitution, making the bees suc- 

 cumb more readily to any disease, but such a wholesale and 

 sudden weakening as to make half the brood die in the 

 cell would not be likeh' to occur. It might be a good plan 

 to send a sample of the brood to Dr. Howard or Mr. 

 McEvoy. 



Very Likely Caused by Worms. 



What is the matter with my bees ? For a long time 

 they have been bringing out dead brood from the hive, in 

 the nymph stage, and also full-grown bees. Indeed, fre- 

 quently the bees brought out are alive, but when alive they 

 always have a thin membrane attacht to them on various 

 parts of their bodies. I have examined the frames, but see 

 no signs of worms. The colonies are greatly weakened in 

 consequence of the brood dying. Illinois. 



Answer. — In spite of your seeing no signs of worms, it 

 is possible that they are the culprits. If you take out a 

 comb and examine it, yoti may see no silken gallery such 

 as are" commonly made by wax-worms, indeed no sign 

 whatever of the presence of'worms, tmless it be that here 

 and there some fully mature young bees seem to be strug- 

 gling to get out of the cells, apparently fast there. Pull 

 out these wriggling bees and you will find at the bottom of 

 the cell a lively, slender worm about half an inch long. I 

 think it is ditTerent from the usual wax-worm. 



Comfis of Pollen— Wood-Bound Zincs. 



On examining a 10-frame colony I find in the brood- 

 chamber no eggs or larva;; in most of the combs a majority 

 of the cells are filled from one-third to two-thirds full of 

 pollen, except a strip at the top, or a patch in one corner, 

 which contains old capt honey. I find no evidence of 

 young bees, either. On top of this hive is a ftill-depth ex- 

 tracting-super containing 10 frames of honey. During the 

 basswood flow the bees filled with honey the upper portion 

 of these super-combs, which they drew out from full sheets 

 of foundation ; the balance of the combs with brood. Some 

 four weeks since examination disclosed this brood where I 

 supposed there was honey. My hives having no honey- 

 boards on, I then procured some Tinker zincs, wood-bound, 

 and placed them over the brood-chambers, shaking and 

 brushing all bees below that were in the supers. In the 

 meantime all this brood has hatcht and bees are filling the 

 cells thus vacated with honey, but storing none in the 

 brood-chamber. 



What is true regarding brood in the super of this col- 

 on}- is true of nearly all my colonies. But since I placed 

 the zincs over them many colonies seem greatly hampered 

 about getting into the supers. The wood-bound zincs are 

 not made right. On one side the frame is elevated above 



