=Bees and Grapes.=—The Klassen and Krock difficulty about the bees
of the former committing depredations on the grapes of the latter, is
to be submitted to arbitration. It seems that the real trouble was a
“personal feud that does not concern bee-keepers at all”—the grape
matter was an outgrowth. This matter was referred to in Prof. Cook’s
article on page 74 of the BEE JOURNAL, and should now be entirely
divorced from the Bee and Grape controversy.
=Bees Dead in box hives.=—Mr. G. Castello, Saginaw, Mich., says that
on Feb. 22 he went to a neighbor’s, 5 miles distant, who had a box-hive
apiary consisting of 103 colonies of bees. After looking them over,
they found only 10 colonies alive; all the rest had died of dysentery.
=Honey for sore Eyes.=—Mr. S. C. Perry, Portland, Mich., says:
“A neighbor of mine had inflammation in his eyes. He tried
many things of many physicians; ‘was nothing better, but
rather grew worse,’until he was almost entirely blind. His
family was sick, and I presented him with a pail of honey.
What they did not eat he put in his eyes, a drop or two in
each eye, 2 or 3 times a day. In 3 months’ time he was able
to read coarse print, and now, after 4 months’ use, his eyes
are almost as good as ever. I have also found honey good for
common cold-sore eyes.”