consequently failing to be profitable, at least during the 

 season of attack. In fighting Paralysis, therefore, the 

 bee-keeper will be fighting one of the serious causes of 

 Spring Dwindling. 



Paralysis is not such a serious trouble as Acarine 

 Disease, for instance, but it is bad enough for any 

 commercial bee-keeper, or for that matter for anyone 

 who expects profit from his bees. As already pointed 

 out, this disease demonstrates itself early in spring and 

 consequently may be responsible for Spring Dwindling 

 with its serious after-effects, which would be specially 

 felt in fruit and clover districts. 



Furthermore, it is not generally appreciated that a 

 combination of two or even three diseases may be met 

 with in one stock, thus leading to its collapse. It would 

 be most foolish, therefore, to neglect the treatment of a 

 disease on account of its mildness, forgetting its predis- 

 posing influence to the attack of a more serious disease. 



TREATMENT. 



For a long time the treatment of Peiralysis has been 

 anything but satisfactory. Our present knowledge of 

 the cause of the disease now helps us to adopt more 

 rational treatment. 



Preventive Treatment.— Do not allow bees to have, 

 for wintering, combs that contain an abundance of 

 pollen, especially side combs which will be deserted 

 by the cluster for a long time. Spraying of pollen. 



