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eluded in this report. Proper equipment and up-to-date methods 

 are of great assistance in the prevention and treatment of disease. 

 The bane of successful bee keeping is the box hive bee keeper 

 whose igijorance is his only excuse. Disease is harbored by such 

 apiaries for many years and is thus a constant menace to every 

 progressive bee keeper for miles around. It is to be hoped that 

 this matter will soon become so well understood that a man will 

 be as much ashamed to keep bees in such a slovenly manner as 

 he would to drop his corn by hand and cultivate with an old 

 fashioned "A" harrow and single shovel jumping cultivator. Once 

 the matter is called forcibly to their attention most men will 

 either take sufficient interest to get proper equipment or quit the 

 bees entirely. 



It is in such apiaries that there is greatest need for inspection 

 and where the inspector finds his greatest difficulty because of 

 lack of understanding of the need of inspection, and the difficulty 

 of reaching the brood nest and thus getting at the seat of the 

 disease. 



IOWA LAWS RELATING TO BEE DISEASES. 



Acts of the Thirty-third General Assembly, Chapter 169. Pre- 

 vention of disease among bees and inspection thereof. 



Section 1. Inspector of Bees — Tcrvi — Deputies. The governor is hereby 

 authorized to appoint a competent man as inspector of bees, who shall 

 hold his office for a term of two years, or until his successor is appointed 

 and qualified; and said inspector shall have the power to appoint deputies. 



Sec. 2. Poicers and Duties of Inspector. It shall be the duty of such 

 inspector, when notified in writing, by at least three beekeepers of any 

 locality, of the existence, or supposed existence, of the disease known 

 as "foul brcod" among the apiaries of such locality, to at once thor- 

 oughly examine such apiaries as are reported to be diseased and all other 

 apiaries in the same locality, and thus ascertain whether such disease ex- 

 ists. If the bees in any apiary are in such place or condition as to prevent 

 a thorough examination by the inspector, he may order the same to be 

 put into proper place or condition for such examination. If such order 

 is not complied with, and the inspector has reason to believe such bees 

 to be diseased, he may cause them to be destroyed. If upon examination 

 the inspector is satisfied of such disease, he shall give the owner or per- 

 son in charge of such apiary full instructions as to the manner of treat- 

 ing the same. Within reasonable time after such examination the in- 

 spector shall, without other notice, make further examination of such 

 apiaries, and If the condition of any of them is such as renders It neces- 

 sary, he may burn, or cause to be burned, all the infected colonies of 

 bees in any apiary, together with all the combs and hives, in order to 

 pr«Teat the further spread of the disease. 



