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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 GAYTONI. 
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 Gayton, 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 Iam concerned at least, till another season.” 
Then, after describing the bacillus G@aytoni, he adds: ‘* With regard 
