9. Before proceeding against any person before a Justice of the Peace, the Inspector 

 shall read over to such person the provisions of this Act or shall cause a copy thereof 

 to be delivered to him. 



10. Every owner or possessor of bees and any other person who is aware of the 

 existence of foul brood either in his own apiary or elsewhere shall immediately notify 

 the Minister of the existence of such disease and in default of so doing shall incur a 

 penalty of $5. 



11. Each Inspector shall report to the Minister as to the inspection of any apiary 

 in such form and manner as the Minister may direct, and all reports shall be filed in the 

 Department of Agriculture, and shall be made public as the Minister may direct or 

 upon order of the Assembly. 



12. The Ontario Summary Convictions Act shall apply to all prosecutions for offences 

 against this Act. 



13. The Act passed in the 6th year of the reign of His late Majesty King Edward 

 the Seventh, and section 27 of the Act passed in the 10th year of the said reign, 

 chaptered 26, are repealed. 



Inspectors'' Duties. 



It will be seen by Sec. 3 that it is an inspector's duty to work under the direc- 

 tion of the Minister of Agriculture or the one he may appoint to administer the 

 Act. Where foul brood is found he is to destroy by fire the worst cases, especially 

 where the beekeeper is not making a successful effort to cure. It is only in cases 

 where " the inspector has reason to believe that it may be entirely cured " that he 

 " may, in his discretion, omit to destroy." 



Teansfeering Bees. 



Persons having bees in the kind of hives described in Sec. 4, will make it easier 

 for the inspectors and themselves as well by making, preparations for trans- 

 ferring as soon as possible. The following is one method of performing this opera- 

 tion: 



The best time to transfer bees out of box hives into frame hives is at the 

 beginning of the swarming season. Choose a time when as many bees as possible 

 are in the field and nicely out of the way. About 10 a.m. will probably be the best 

 time if it is a warm, still day. The following appliance will be needed: a good 

 smoker, a bee veil, a hive tool of some sort such as a screwdriver or a wall scraper 

 used by paperhangers, and the new hive, preferably ten-frame Langstroth with 

 wired frames filled with sheets of foundation. 



Blow a little smoke in at the entrance to the hive, tip the old hive over side- 

 ways and blow in more smoke to drive the bees down among the combs ; let it stand 

 upside down to one side and place the new hive where it formerly stood, with the 

 entrance exactly in the place of the old one. Put down a newspaper in front of 

 the new hive with one edge under the entrance. The bees returning with pollen 

 and honey now alight and go into the empty hive. Place a small box over the 

 inverted hive large enough to receive the whole cluster of bees. Now drum on the 

 sides of the hive with a couple of sticks until the bees run into the box above, 

 ■which should be removed as soon as a majority of them have gone up into it and 

 placed to one side until the bees cluster like a swarm; then dump the bees down 

 on the newspaper in front of the new hive and let them run in in the same manner 

 that a new swarm is hived. It will be best to watch for the queen, because if the 



