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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Tlie Doolittle queen cups are 

 finding advocates and admirers every 

 day. The following is from the last 

 issue of Oleanings, and gives a utilitarian 

 reason for adopting that plan of queen- 

 rearing : 



Hip, hip, hurrah ! We are having 

 success with the Doolittle queen-cell cups. 

 Nine-tenths of the artificial cups are now 

 accepted by the bees, and built out into 

 large handsone cells. Without this plan 

 we should be short, at this time of year, 

 of cells for queen-rearing. 



If everybody has as good success as we 

 are now having, it is going to be a great 

 boon to bee-keepers, from the fact that 

 we can breed all, or almo'st all, queens 

 from a choice mother, the best queen in 

 the whole apiary, instead of a dozen or 

 two, as we were obliged to do by the old 

 methods. 



Doolittle's book is one of the most 

 readable books of this age, and every 

 bee-keeper should have it. It can be 

 obtained as a premium by sending us two 

 new subscribers. That is worth taking 

 a little trouble to accomplish. 



A New Hive has come to our 

 Museum, from Thos. O. Hines, Anamosa, 

 Iowa, for the examination of visitors. 

 It is a new departure ; the body has six 

 sides, and the frames are odd shaped 

 enough to suit the most fantastical. 



Tlie Honey Crop of Wisconsin, 

 seems to boom pretty well. Last week 

 we stated, on page 236, that Mr. E. 

 France had a crop of 30,000 pounds. 

 Now, Dr. J. W. Vance, remarks thus in 

 the Wisconsin Farmer, about the bass- 

 wood crop of honey : 



Mr. D. D. Daniher reported that he 

 had extracted from 2(3 colonies, belong- 

 ing to Mr. Atwood, of Middleton, 1,600 

 pounds, almost all of basswood. From 

 what we have learned we incline to think 

 we have had a bountiful crop this year. 

 ' Rev. T. E. Turner, of Sussex, Wis., 

 informed me that he would have about 

 4,000 pounds of comb and about 1,000 

 pounds of extracted-honey. 



Mr. Turner's bees are chiefly Carni- 

 olans. He is well pleased with them. 

 Their merits are gentleness, and activity; 

 the queens are very prolific ; they are 



hardy and winter well. If they get any 

 other blood and become hybridized, look 

 out for them. They will be as cross as 

 any other hybrids. 



Bee Paralysis is the name here- 

 after to be used instead of "Palsy," 

 "shaking disease," "trembling disease," 

 " nameless disease," and' the like. We 

 fully agree with friend Root, in the fol- 

 lowing paragraph from Gleanings: 



Dr. Miller proposes, or, rather, advises, 

 the expediency of another name for the 

 "nameless bee disease." It is a shame 

 that this misnomer has gained all but 

 universal acceptance on this side of the 

 Atlantic, for designating a peculiar mal- 

 ady that affects bees. Perhaps we are 

 responsible in a great measure for it. 

 At any rate, with the concurrence 

 and agreement of the editors of other 

 bee-periodicals, we propose to accept, 

 as a better name, "bee paralysis" (Ba- 

 cillus depilis). This is the name that 

 is in use in England, we believe. By 

 Cheshire it is called Bacillus Oaytoni. 

 The termination depilis is descriptive, 

 while Oaytoni is derived from a name — 

 a Miss Gayton who called Cheshire's 

 attention to it. We like dejyilis better, 

 because it means ivithout hair or fuzz, 

 and this exactly describes bees afflicted 

 with Bacillus depilis 



It is quite appropriate that as friend 

 Root was resppnsible for the " nameless" 

 cognomen, he should atone for it by 

 giving it a name that is reasonable and 

 proper. 



Tlie Honey Season in Canada 

 is thus described in the Montreal Wit7iess, 

 of August 19, 1891: 



Our brief honey season may be said to 

 have departed. The white clover and 

 basswood yields have come and gone; the 

 Canada thistle is still in bloom, viper's 

 bugloss is holding out wonderfully, and 

 the golden-rod is just coming into flower. 

 These give the bees partial employment, 

 and help to quiet them down after tho 

 rush of their harvest time. ' 



In t"his locality, we have not had even 

 an average honey season. The dry, hot 

 weather in Spring and early Summer 

 made the flowers few and small. White 

 clover. was well nigh a failure, and the 

 scarce heads of bloom seemed to contain 

 very little nectar. But few stores were 

 gathered from the basswood — it seemed 



