August, '21] PHILLIPS: BEE DISEASE CONTROL 321 



there is any probability of beekeeping being a large industry. It would 

 be a serious thing to have quarantines established or legalized further 

 than they are now for the quarantine powers have already been abused, 

 as is the keeping out of competing honey from certain markets under the 

 guise of disease control. In no case that has come to the attention of 

 the author has a quarantine been of any real value to the beekeeping 

 industry. 



Not only has police power not been extensively used, but the very 

 existence of the power has been recognized as a handicap to the work. 

 This is illustrated by the fact that Iowa has seen fit to call the official 

 who corresponds to the apiary inspector by the name "State Apiarist". 

 Pennsylvania has an "Apiary Adviser" and other states have in the same 

 manner tried to hide the power granted to these men. That police power 

 is a handicap is further shown by the fact that it has long been widely 

 recognized that the county system of inspection is a failure. The 

 trouble is that a beekeeper can not go to a neighbor beekeeper and get 

 him to clean up the disease that may be present without engendering 

 the thought that the work is done so that the region may be made better 

 for the inspector or that the bees of the region may actually be killed off 

 for his benefit. Were it not for the existence of the police powers of the 

 inspector, a local man might efficiently serve, for there would not be 

 the same feeling against an avowed educator. 



The exercise of general police powers is dangerous to the beekeeping 

 industry, yet there may be cases where a show of power may be helpful. 

 In order that such hypothetical cases may be covered, the new Iowa law 

 provides that in case the state apiarist shall find neglected disease he 

 may report the case to the local officials charged with the enforcement 

 of the other laws of the state and county and these local officials shall 

 then take charge of the case. In New York, where inspection has been 

 carried on since 1899, there have been few occasions where an exercise 

 of police powers seemed wise. If the beekeepers still wish the power 

 to be retained the law may be modified as in Iowa. In states where 

 there is a departinent of the state government which has charge of the 

 regulatory laws of agriculture, this power should be put in the hands of 

 that department. 



It seems that the beekeeping industry has been able to obtain the 

 services of a competent lot of teachers of beekeeping throughout the 

 country under the guise of having inspection for the prevention of the 

 spread of the diseases of bees. That the work has been of the greatest 

 good to the beekeeping industry is beyond question to any one familiar 



