70 c The Agricultural Law 



ture a statement giving the ingredients of which it is made ; if 



honey is one of such ingredients it shall be so 

 Labeling of. stated in the same size type as are the other 

 ingredients, but it shall not be sold, exposed for 

 sale, or offered for sale as honey; nor shall such compound or 

 mixtuie be branded or labeled with the word "honey" in any 

 form other than as herein provided ; nor shall any product in sem- 

 blance of honey, whether a mixture or not, be sold, exposed or 

 offered for sale as honey, or branded or labeled with the word 

 " honey," unless such article is pure honey. 



§ 303. Duties of the commissioner.— The commissioner of agri- 

 culture shall immediately upon receiving notice of the existence 



of foul brood or black brood among the bees in 

 Foul brood; any locality, send some competent person or 

 suppression of. persons to examine the apiary or apiaries re- 

 ported to him as being affected, and all the 

 other apiaries in the immediate locality of the apiary or apiaries 

 so reported ; if foul brood or black brood is ;found to exist in them, 

 the person or persons so sent by the commissioner of agriculture 

 shall give the owners or caretakers of the diseased apiary or 

 apiaries full instructions how to treat said cases. The commis- 

 sioner of agriculture shall cause said apiary or apiaries to be 



visited from time to time as he may deem best 

 Bees; and if, after proper treatment, the said bees 



destruction of. shall not be cured of the diseases known as foul 

 brood or black brood then he may cause the 

 same to be destroyed in such manner as may be necessary to pre- 

 vent the spread of the said diseases. For the purpose of enforcing 

 this article, the commissioner of agriculture, his agents, employees, 



appointees or counsel, shall have access, ingress 

 Enforcement. and egress to all places where bees or honey 

 or appliances used in apiaries may be, which 

 it is believed are in any way affected with the said disease of 

 foul brood or black brood or where it is believed any commodity 

 is offered or exposed for sale in violation of the provisions of 

 this article. No owner or caretaker of a diseased apiary, honey 

 or appliances shall sell, barter or give away any bees, honey or 

 appliances from said diseased apiary, which shall expose other 

 bees to the danger of said diseases, nor refuse to allow the said 

 commissioner of agriculture, or the person or persons ap- 

 pointed by him to inspect said apiary, honey or appliances, and 



