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ther says, that " last spring was the first time I ever 

 knew them to become diseased before swarming had} 

 thinned the population. The weather was remarkably 

 pleasant through April. The bees obtained great 

 quantities of pollen and honey, and. by this means 

 extended their brood further than usual at this season. ' 

 Subsequent chilly weather in May, caused the bees tor 

 desert a portion of brood, which were destroyed by?, 

 the chill." :. 



Now this is reasoning from cause to effect very 

 consistently. 



ANSWERS NOT SATISFACTORY. 



Had I no experience further than this, I should, 

 perhaps, rest satisfied as to the cause, and should en-r 

 deavor to apply the remedy. Several other writers^ 

 have appeared in different papers, on this subject,, 

 and nearly all who assign a cause have, given this one- 

 as the most probable. Now I have known the chryr- 

 salis in a fe,w stocks to be chilled and destroyed by a 

 sudden turn of cold weather, yet these were removed; 

 by the bees soon after, and the stocks remained heal-j 

 thy. To me the cause assigned appears inadqual^ to 

 produce all the results with the larvae.. After close, 

 patient observation of fifteen years, I have never yet 

 been wholly satisfied that any one instance among my 

 bees, was thus produced. 



A CAUSE SUGGESTED. 



We are all familiar to some extent with the conta- 

 gious diseases of the human family, such as smaU-pox, 



