In some cases destroying the queen of the infected colony, and introducing another from a healthy stock, effects a eure. This would seem to indicate that paralysis is constitutional, coming from the queen; but in the South, where the disease is much more prevalent and destructive, destroying the queen seems to have but little effect. Spraying the combs with a solution of salt and water, or of carbonic acid and water, has been recommended; but these do little or no good. One writer recommends removing the diseased stock from its stand, and putting in its place a strong healthy one. The affected colony is then removed to the stand formerly occupied by the healthy bees. He reports that he tried this in many cases, and found that an absolute cure followed in every instance. The _rationale_ of the treatment seems to be that the bees of the ordinary colony having beeparalysis are too much discouraged to remove the sick : as a consequence, the source of infection--that is, the swollen shiny bees --are allowed to crawl through the hive at will. But when the colonies are transposed, the healthy vigorous bees of the sound stock carry the diseased bees entirely away from the hive. The sick and the dying being removed, the colony recovers. Mr. O. O. Poppleton, of Stuart, Fla., has had a large experience. One plan that he uses is as follows: He sprinkles sulphur over the affected bees and combs, but not until all the brood in the diseased colony has been removed and put into a strong healthy one: for Mr. Poppleton says the sulphur kills all the unsaeled brood and eggs ; that no harm results in putting the brood among healthy bees, as he finds the source of the malady is not in the brood or combs; for he has put combs from paralytic colonies repeatedly into healthy ones, and never (but once) did the disease develop in any such colony, and that was a year afterward. At first, says Mr. Poppleton, the disease seems to get worse instead of better. The colony will dwindle, but in two weeks there will be a decided improvement, and finally the colony will be cured and will stay cured. In many cases, he thinks, it may be necessary to repeat the application of the sulphur about ten days after the first time. This makes sure that every bee has received a curative quantity of the sulphur, even if it were not in the hive at the first dose. While the foregoing has worked well, yet because it is attended with a rapid reduction of the strength of the colony so treated, and because the disease has a tendency to run in certain strains that are very susceptible to it, Mr. Poppleton thinks that, in the long run, it may be better to use the following plan: He forms as many nuclei from strong healthy stocks as there are sick colonies to be treated. As soon as the nuclei have young laying queens, he gives to each, as fast as they can take care of them, one or two frames of the oldest capped brood from each of the paralytie colonies, and thereafter till all the brood of such colonies is used up. The diseased bees and queen he next destroys with sulphur fumes, fumigating the hives at the same time. Repeated tests have shown that paralysis is never transmitted by the brood or combs, but that it is carried by the dead or sick bees. It is, therefore, important that, in giving the combs to the nuclei, there be no dead bees in the cells. If not convenient then to use the nucleus plan, replace the old queen and use the sulphur. _FOUL BROOD* -- AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN._ Probably many a bee-keeper is annoyed rather than otherwise that so much room is taken up in bee-journals on the subject of fool brood, all which matter he faithfully skips, feeling that it has no interest for him. But a day comes when something awakens his suspicion. Then he wants to know the symptoms. _SYMPTONS OF THE AMERICAN, OR ROPY, FOUL BROOD._ The specimen shown next page is typical of an advanced stage of the disease, because it shows sunken and perforated capped cells, and those unenapped with the dead larvae lying on one side. While we usually expect the larvae to die in the case of old fashioned or \(\Lambda\)merican fool brood after sealing, yet