PROVISIONS OF THE AGRICULTURAL LAW RELATING TO 



DISEASE AMONG BEES 



§ 300. The prevention of disease 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 beekeeper when he becomes aware of the 

 existence of either of such diseases among his bees, shall immediately notify 

 the commissioner of agriculture of the existence of such disease. 



§ 301. Defining honey. — The terms "honey," "liquid or extracted honey," 

 " strained honey," or '" pure honey," as used in tliis article shall mean the 

 nectar of flowers that has been transformed by, and is the natural product of 

 the honey-bee, taken from the honeycomb and marketed in a liquid, candied or 

 granulated condition. 



§ 302. Relative to selling a commodity in imitation or semblance of honey. 

 — Xo person or persons shall sell, keep for sale, expose or offer for sale, any 

 article or product in imitation or semblance of honey branded as " honey," 

 " liquid or extracted honey," " strained honey " or " pure honey " which is 

 not pure honey. No person or persons, firm, association, company or corpora- 

 tion, shall manufacture, sell, expose or offer for sale any compound or mix- 

 ture branded or labeled as and for honey which shall be made up of honey 

 mixed with any other substance or ingredient. There may be printed on the 

 package containing such compound or mixture a statement giving the ingredi- 

 ents of which it is made: if honey is one of such ingredients it shall be so 

 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 com- 

 pound or mixture be branded or labeled with the word "honey" in any form 

 other than as herein provided; nor shall any product in semblance 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 agriculture shall 

 immediately upon receiving notice of the existence of foul brood or black 

 brood among the bees in any locality, send some competent person or per- 

 sons to examine the apiary or apiaries reported 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 commissioner of agriculture shall cause said apiary or 

 apiaries to be visited from time to time as he may deem best and if, after 

 proper treatment, the said bees shall not be cured of the diseases known as 

 foul brood or black brood then lie may cause the same to be destroyed in 

 such manner as may be necessary to prevent 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 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 tlie said disease of 

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



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