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Mr. R Harding, of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, also reported 

 favourably of Muth's remedy, and it seems quite possible that 

 it may be the most suitable one for districts like that around 

 Adelaide, where more or less honey is gathered throughout the 

 greater part of the year. 



I believe it to be a good plan to give all spare hives, frames, 

 and bottom-boards a brush over with a solution of carbolic 

 acid at the end of the season, before putting them away for 

 winter ; it can do no harm, but may do a great deal of good. 



BACILLUS 6AYT0NI. 



In the further pursuance of his investigations, Mr. Cheshire 

 has discovered that there are other species of bacilli which 

 affect bees with diseases different altogether in their symptoms 

 from those of foul brood. Through the close observation of 

 Miss Grayton, a well-known successful bee-keeper, who for- 

 warded to him for examination some bees of the glossy black 

 and hairless appearance which has heretofore been very gene- 

 rally supposed to indicate " old robbers," he found them filled 

 with a bacillus altogether different from the bacillus alvei, and 

 to which he has given the name of bacillus Gaytoni. He says 

 " it is a very mild offender beside the bacillus alvei, but it will 

 be very interesting to note whether it succumbs to the same 

 treatment." 



OTHER DISEASES OF BEES. 



It is probable, as I previously intimated, that we may be 

 still further indebted to Mr. Cheshire for a knowledge of other 

 diseases which have heretofore puzzled the bee-keeper. There 

 is one sort of symptom which has attracted attention of late in 

 America and here, generally alluded to as that of " trembling 

 bees," about which we are still in the dark. Mr. Cheshire 

 says, in a paper which appeared in the British Bee Journal of 

 September, 1884 : 



" During the last two months I have been able to make out no less 

 than five, or possibly six, distinct disorders arising from that number 

 of specifically different germs, all of which will require prolonged 

 attention, if anything very definite is to be arrived at respecting them. 

 In addition I suspect strongly that true dysentery will also turn out to 

 be an infectious disorder ; but since specimens fail me, the question 

 must remain, as far as I am concerned at least, till another season." 

 Then, after describing the bacillus Gaytoni, he adds: "With regard 



