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An Experiment
Time Of Greatest Irritability
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Burying Bees
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Bees Do Not Increase If Full After The First Year In Same Hive
One Like Common Hive Preferred
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An Experiment 2
An Experiment
Time Of Greatest Irritability
Expense Of Renewing Combs
Burying Bees
Remedial Experiments
Bee Pasturage
Bees Do Not Increase If Full After The First Year In Same Hive
One Like Common Hive Preferred
Not Properly Understood

Accumulation Of Faeces Described By Some Writers As A Disease

Category: WINTERING BEES.

This accumulation of faeces is considered by many writers as a
disease--a kind of dysentery. It is described as affecting them towards
spring, and several remedies are given. Now if what I have been
describing is not the dysentery, why I must think I never had a case of
it; but I shall still persist in guessing it to be the same, and
suppose that inattention with many must be the reason that it is not
discovered in cold weather, at the time that it takes place. Some
stocks may be badly affected, yet not lost entirely, when moderate
weather will stop its progress. When a remedy is applied in the spring,
long after the cause ceases to operate, it would be singular if it was
not effectual. I have no doubt but some have taken the natural
discharge of faeces, that always takes place in spring when the bees
leave the hive, for a disease. Others, when looking for a cause for
diseased brood, and found the combs and hive somewhat besmeared, have
assigned this as sufficient; but according to my view, have reversed
it, giving the effect before the cause.





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