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visited some injurious plant or tree that may be in bloom 
when there is not much else they can work upon. I have 
always advised the immediate and rapid feeding of several 
pounds of thin warm syrup, and this simple remedy has 
proved most beneficial, as the poisonous honey collected 
is diluted, and the bees have less inclination to work on 
the laurel, which is usually the offending plant. 
Dysentery 
will sometimes result in partial or temporary paralysis, 
and the trouble may result from the winter food being 
unsuitable ; or because the bees have a damp and shady 
position, with prolonged confinement. 
Spring Dwindling, 
as usually understood, is not a result of Isle of Wight 
disease ; indeed, it is not in any sense a disease, but is 
always-an accidental circumstance, generally resulting from 
mismanagement. 
Nevertheless, this or any other trouble can be aggravated 
by infectious paralysis ; but it would be a wrong conclusion 
to set down spring dwindling or common dysentery as a 
result of this malady. 
Where did Infectious Paralysis come from ? 
In the July, 1896, issue of Gleanings in Bee Culture 
(America), the editor expressed a fear that bee-paraiysis 
was spreading over the whole of the United States ; but 
fortunately such has not been the case, although the trouble 
has been reported by bee-owners in a dozen different States 
over a period of some 30 years or more, but especially in 
Florida, Texas and California. : 
Infectious paralysis has been known in Australian 
apiaries since 1894, at different periods, and there can be 
no doubt that less serious cases occur occasionally in other 
