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cheapest and most nutritious of food and 

 best of medicine. 



SOME dont's. 



Pon^t buy honey that has stood in the open 

 air, especially in a damp climate. The cap- 

 pings of comb honey are very porous and 

 affected by all strong smelling and damp 

 surroundings ; consequently do not use 

 honey that is kept near tobacco, salt or 

 smoked tlsh or meats, caudles etc. 



Don't buy honey in which any comb is 

 immersed, for jjuve extracted honey does 

 not need comb in it to deceive the eye for it 

 appeals to the palate as well as the eye. 



DonH use strained honey as it is squeezed 

 from the comb in which dead bees, larv:e, 

 pupa, the bee-moth's larva' etc. and even 

 worse are present. 



7^o»i7 think that honey is expensive as one 

 quart of honey is equal to five or six pounds 

 of butter in lasting and food results. 



Dou't forget that cheap syrups, ( and some 

 expensive ones ) bring you two unwelcome 

 visitors, first the doctor, next the undertaker. 



Don't buy honey without the label of 

 some apiarist, producer or reliable tirm. 



Don't stay without honey when you can 

 get a pure, ripened and wholesome article at 

 a fair price. 



Don't leave your extracted or comb honey 

 open, cover it. 



POBTLAND, Oregon. May 13, 189G. 



Is Bee Paralysis Transmitted through the 

 Q,aeen 1 



F, L. THOMPSON. 



(S'OME years ago 

 k9 Rauchfuss Bro. 

 of this State im- 

 ported 20 queens 

 from Italy. The 

 next year three or 

 four colonies had 

 the bee-paralysis. 

 Since then it has 

 increased every 

 year lasting from 

 fruit bloom until 

 about June 10th. 

 Almost no fruit bloom is within reach of 

 the bees, and no spraying is done, it nearly 

 stops, but breaks out again when the 

 weather clears. 



All ages are affected alike, including bees 

 just hatched, which have never been out of 

 the hive. Bees bringing in honey and pol- 

 len, fall down an die before the hive. The 

 sandy expanses, where there is no vegeta- 

 tion, in the neighborhood of one of their 

 apiaries, are seen to be strewn with dead 

 bees while the disease is in progress. They 

 are seen to dropoff' the frames at intervals, 

 when a frame is taken out and held up. 

 Foul brood would be preferable. 



The symptoms correspond with those des- 

 cribed by Mr. T. S. Ford. Salt, salicylic 

 acid, and carbolic acid have been tried with 

 no effect. 



They iiave two apiaries about five miles 

 apart. A three-mile radius with either 

 apiary as a center would include the apiary 

 of Mr. S. M. Carlzen, at Montclair. The 

 latter has not shown a trace of the disease. 



The soil and surroundings of the two 

 apiaries are somewhat different, one being 

 on ordinary prairie upland, the other in a 

 sandy creek bottom with considerable 

 swampy ground in the neighborhood. The 

 latter locality has (luitea variety of, though 

 not an abundance, of wild flowers. The 

 nineteen varieties of plaats which yield 

 honey or pollen in both localities while the 

 bees have the disease were sent to the Agri- 

 cultural College and named. None of them 

 are poisonous. 



Both apiaries are equally affected. Bees 

 and queens have been frequently interchang- 

 ed. Several sales of bees and queens have 

 been made, the parties buying having full 

 knowledge of the circumstances. In no 

 case did the disease break out among those 

 bees, or from those queens, in their new 

 localities. In one instance, queens were 

 taken from diseased colonies, before the hon- 

 ey flow had begun, and put in healthy colon- 

 ies in their new location without any contagi- 

 on resulting. Six colonies, which were affect- 

 ed as badly as any of them, were delivered 

 after the disease was over, but it did not 

 breakout iii them again. They were no 

 better protected in their new location than 

 they had been before. I myself bought over 

 ir> of their queens in the fall of isyp,, but my 

 bees have continued healthy. Altogether 

 there were four cases of queens sold in some 

 quantity in which they kept informed of 

 their condition, but the disease has not been 

 transmitted through the queen, either in 

 strange localities or in their own apiaries. 



