422 Ninth Annual Retort of the 



the commissioner of agriculture may expend such sum or sums 

 as he may deem necessary, not exceeding the sum of five thou- 

 sand dollars, in promoting by instruction, or otherwise, and en- 

 couraging the proper and economic cultivation of sugar beets. 

 There shall be paid to the manufacturers of beet sugar, in the 

 state of New York, of the moneys hereby appropriated, such 

 sum as may be necessary to pay one-half cent a pound on beet v 

 sugar manufactured during the season of nineteen hundred and 

 two, which sum shall be distributed in accordance with the pro- 

 visions of article five of the agricultural law as inserted by 

 chapter five hundred of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 seven and as hereby amended. (Appropriation made by chapter 

 240 of the Laics of 1902.) 



* ARTICLE VI. 



Miscellaneous Provisions. 



Section 80. The prevention of diseases among bees. 



81. Proceedings of the agent of the commissioners. 



82. The prevention of disease in fruit trees. 



83. Appointment and duties of the agent of the commissioner of 



agriculture. 



84. Proceedings in case of owner's failure to destroy. 



85. The New York agricultural experiment station. 



86. The state weather bureau. 



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S7. The agricultural experiment station at Cornell university. 



88. Receipts and apportionment of state moneys appropriated for 



the promotion of agriculture. 



89. When agricultural societies entitled to additional sums from 



the state. 



90. Annual report of the commissioner of agriculture and state 



society. 



91. Maple sugar and maple syrup. 



92. Maple sugar and maple syrup. 



§ 80. The prevention of diseases among bees. — No person shall 

 keep in his apiary any colony of bees affected with a contagious 

 malady known as foul brood or black brood; and every bee- 

 keeper when lie becomes aware of the existence of either of such 



•This, original article V, was made article VI by chapter 500 of the Laws of 1897. 



