The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-11-29

They are compelled to get accustomed to change
4 climate by degrees not by an alteration OF Inc
structure of their organs, for that can never occur l-
dor apy circumstances but by some change that takes
ce in the circulation of the fluids Of the body, by
Which the system is accommodated to higher or low
or temperature But leave this part OF the ques-
fon 10 the naturaliss learned in the science.
If we are correct in this our opinion, the sugges-
inn If DIR Anderson would not be available IN our
climate r. according to his proposal, bees were TO
he kent all winter in ice house, more causes than
one would operate to the injury of their health, and
consequently to the decrease of their number Inc
omnerature of an ice-house unless are to suppose
the hive TO be buried in the ice itself, is much higher
Than that which is without the house. lie tolpor,
therefore, would not be so complete, as to put stop
"a tbc DIGESTIVE process The bees would be compel
pd to eat and as their food is constantly IN contact
with the impure, stagnant air OF the lce-house, u
would soon become vitiated and engender diseases.
We know of but two diseases to which the bees are
subject in this country, and they have to our knoWl-
edGe never occurred at any other season, than the
c,rv mart of the spring-dysentery and dyspepsa.--
The latter arises from the indoent. inactive life that
thev are compelled to lead in our variable winters
The rule holds good with the most dlmlnutlve, as
well as the greatest, in animal life, that II we eat
and wish to preserve health, we must work.
During the last winter (l828.) the bees suffered
more and lost more of their numbers, than has often
been known before. There was scarcely day, that
they did not sally out to search for employment and
food but not being properly stimulated, they seldom
returned to the hive We frequently saw them crawl
ng on the ground weak and spritless and those that
did return soon persisted. On examining tie hives
we observed that nearly all the honey was consumed ;
and many of the brood, that in ordinary seasons, are
net Matched until the first part OF April, assumed inc
hy form at an earlier period and died.
The cure for this disorder the bees take INTO their
own hands, As soon as the flowers appear, they go
to work and then is that they resort to apenents
and toncs, which they abstract from the floors OF the
piggeres.
The other disease proceeds from long confinement
in bad air and from unwholesome food and Is lnYar-
ably fatal nor can the bees avert II by any instinct
of their own. We know of no cure for the dysente-
y when the bee is seized with it, Those that have IT
badly must die We can restore those that are least
affected by frequently Washing the hives, as Tar as we
can REACH with weak lie, and by ventatlng them and
removing the dead bees.
Much has been said of the danger to be apprehend-
ed from placing an apary too near our own dwelling
There is indeed no positive advantage IN having 1t We
ry near; but as the person usually engaged IN mvlng
the bees is occupied with farming affairs, and Is not
always present when the bees swarm 1t Is proper hat
the apiary should be within sight Of the family.
bee certainly has frequently attacked horse, and we
have once or twice heard of one being stung to DEATH
CONSIDERING the great number of hives of bees, 1T Is
really wonderful that more accidents of this kind have
not occurred But they are exceedingly rare; and
when we know how many hundred horses annually die
from the disease called the bolts, which proceeds from
the taoOrots laid Inv the HOgSc-bPe tic