Mortality Among the Bees.
By Wm. Cottrell
THE nearer we approach the end, the more visible the effects of the curse appear. All things that we look upon seem to be affected. A great mortality among the bees has occurred here such as was never known in our country before. They commenced dying early last season, and have continued until most men have lost all that they had—one farmer losing to the amount of 30 or 40 stands. They have quite an amount of honey, and it is said that it is not fit for use. A nephew of mine told me that the honey that was left in his stands could not be eaten at all; that it did not taste like honey. Some men who were in the bee culture say that a honeydew fell last summer, and that killed the bees in his neighborhood. Some call it bee cholera.