Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1521 
The Henyard 
Bees Stinging Poultry 
There has been some discussion about 
bees and poultry, some readers claiming 
that there are cases where birds have 
been severely injured. A curious thing 
about it seems to be that the bees will 
attack dark-colored hens or animals in 
preference to light-colored. The follow¬ 
ing is taken from the American Bee Jour¬ 
nal: 
A friend of mine (who, because of ill 
health, was obliged to seek relief in a 
sanitarium) asked me if I would take 
care of his bees while he was away. This 
responsibility I readily assumed and im¬ 
mediately took possession of four hives of 
bees, removing three of them to a yard 
some four miles out of town. The fourth 
hive I placed in the rear of of my busi¬ 
ness office in town. 
This was in the late Fall, and the hive 
remained there, unmolested, until early 
Spring. One Sunday morning it occurred 
to me that I had better examine that hive 
to see how its occupants had stood the 
Winter. I gave them a little smoke, and 
after a few minutes I removed the cover. 
Then the fun began ! They proved to be 
the most vicious colony of bees I ever 
handled. In a moment the air was full 
of angry bees, and I was forced to seek 
had a cold and in drinking should pass 
germs into the water fountain, would the 
presence of permanganate disinfect that 
water so the germs would not be passed 
on to other birds? M. p. X. 
St. Michaels, Md. 
1. The trouble with your floor is very 
likely due to the use of fine sand and too 
little cement; salt is sometimes used in 
small proportion to prevent freezing 
when concrete is mixed during cold wea¬ 
ther and, if too much is not used, there 
is no injury, save to the surface appear¬ 
ance of the finished structure. Fine sand, 
however, is not suited to concrete work, 
requiring, if used, much more cement, 
up, perhaps, to double the amount that 
would be needed if the sand was made up 
of large particles. Good concrete sand is 
coarse and sharp, not fine and with 
smoothly rounded particles. I do not 
know of any satisfactory application for 
preventing the disintegration of improp¬ 
erly made concrete. 
2. If potassium permanganate can ex¬ 
ert any good influence in preventing the 
spread of disease among fowls, I should 
expect it to be in the way that you sug¬ 
gest. Potassium permanganate is not 
a powerful germicide and rapidly loses its 
value in that respect when brought into 
contact with organic matter. While in 
sufficiently fresh and strong solution, it 
would act as an antiseptic, discouraging 
the growth and transmission of disease 
Here is a good-sized farm family with no indication of race suicide. This one lives 
ir. New Jersey and its members will do anything that an honest dog may be 
expected to do. 
shelter for my own protection. While I 
was busy getting rid of bees that had fol¬ 
lowed me into my office, I heard a great 
commotion in the poultry yard outside. 
The air was now full of bees and poultry ! 
There were about 20 hens in the yard— 
an equal number of White Leghorns and 
It. -I. Reds. I rushed to the window and 
saw that the bees had literally covered the 
Reds and were stinging them unmerciful¬ 
ly ! Out of sympathy for the poor hens, 
I rushed out and drove them, into the 
poultry-house and shut the door; but 
the poor creatures were so crazed with 
pain they flew in a body against the door 
and burst it open, flying out again where 
the air was still thick wfith bees. 
Four of the Reds flew over the fence 
into a neighbor’s yard and into a small 
unoccupied building, where they were 
found dead the next morning. Two hens 
and a beautiful cockerel crawled under a 
large building, where it was impossible 
to get at them, and I concluded that they 
had died also; but, much to my surprise, 
four days afterwards they appeared in 
the poultry yard; but, such woe-begone 
birds you never saw! However, careful 
nursing brought them back to health 
again, and in the meantime the colony of 
bees had been moved out of town. 
Not one of the White Leghorns was 
touched by a bee! This proves to me that 
bees are not “color-blind,” but, like the 
bull, are enraged by the flaunting of a red 
rag ! MILLARD F. FREEBORN. 
Massachusetts. 
Poor Cement Floor; Per¬ 
manganate of Potash 
1. What is wrong with a new cement 
floor laid the past Summer? It was made 
rather weak in cement, the mixture being 
cement and seaside sand. A white, fuzzy 
substance "keeps forming on some parts 
of the floor, and on sweeping it away, 
more or less sand goes with it. I may 
say that the sand is very fine in texture 
or size of particles. Is it likely that 
there was a certain amount of salt in the 
sand and that this is setting up some 
sort of chemical action. Is there any¬ 
thing that can be done to correct the 
condition, or is there any substance which 
can be painted over the floor to stop the 
constant loss of sand in sweeping? Theo¬ 
retically, at least, the materials in the 
concrete were all alike yet not all the 
floor shows this condition. 2. M. B. I). 
does not consider potasium permanganate 
of much value in drinking water for 
hens. Would it have value by preventing 
the passing of roupy colds from one bird 
to others? That is, suppose a given bird 
germs. It was formerly widely used in 
the drinking water of fowls, for its sup¬ 
posed protective effect, the amounts ad¬ 
vised being very indefinite and of uncer¬ 
tain efficacy. “An amount sufficient to 
color the water a wine red” was the 
usual prescription; that might be, any 
amount, from a teaspoonful to a peck, 
according to the user's idea of wine red. 
M. B. D. 
Abnormal Hens 
I have a backyard flock of 26 Barred 
Rock hens and pullets. The hens are 
one and two years old, except some pet 
birds that are older. They are fed hard 
grains in Summer, oyster shells by them 
at all times. I killed a hen for the table. 
When opened her egg bag filled all the 
cavity and was filled with hard lumps as 
large as a man’s hand of what appeared 
to be hard-boiled egg yolk. Another died, 
and was found in the same conditiou, 
while a third was killed in which the 
lumps were small, like marbles, but there 
were hundreds of them. They usually lay 
very well at this time of year; now I only 
get six and eight eggs a day, so think 
several others must have the same ail¬ 
ment. Can you tell me what causes it? 
They are fat, combs red, and look thrifty ; 
have large fields and woods to roam over. 
Newtown, Pa. b. m. p. 
Some obstruction to the passage of the 
egg through the oviduct, such as might be 
occasioned by the presence of a tumor or 
other abnormal condition of the egg-pro¬ 
ducing organs, not infrequently causes 
the escape of yolks into the abdominal 
cavity, where they form masses of vary¬ 
ing size that are found upon dressing the 
fowl. The condition is not apt to be dis¬ 
covered during the life of the bird and, 
unless the cause of the trouble could be 
removed, treatment would not be of avail. 
Thesp yolk masses may be wholly or 
partly absorbed, or may coalese into one 
large body, or may become infected and 
break down, resutling in the death of the 
fowl from septic poisoning. m. b. n. 
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