January, 1908. 



American 'Ree Journal 



As foul brood has again manifested it- 

 self in many parts of the State, the ur- 

 gent need of legislation to assist in its 

 control and final eradication was agam 

 brought home to the bee-keepers. 



The secretary recommended that here- 

 after a fixed salary be paid to the secre- 

 tary-treasurer for his services. 



The membership has shown an en- 

 couraging growth, and the outlook of 

 the Association is very promising. 



The treasurer's report was next pre- 

 sented, on motion was approved, and a 

 vote of thanks given him for the able 

 manner in which he had financeered the 

 Association. . 



Prof, burface, as chairman ot the 

 committee on legislation, reported on the 

 work that the committee had done. A 

 bill drawn up and presented by Mr. Car- 

 son, was referred to a committee, which, 

 when they met, conferred with the legis- 

 lation committee that had been appoint- 

 ed, and the bill was reported out of the 

 hands of the committee at once. During 

 the rush of the last days of the Legisla- 

 ture the bill was not called up, and with 

 more than a hundred other bills, was 

 laid asleep. Prof. Surface recommended 

 that we agree on a bill to be presented 

 to the next Legislature. He then read 

 the following that had been presented, 

 and called for criticisms on the same : 



An Act 

 For the suppression of contagious diseases 

 among bees in Pennsylvania by creating the 

 office of Inspector of Apiaries, to defane the 

 duties thereof, and to appropriate money 



Sbction I. — Be it enacted by the Senate and 

 House of Representatives of the Common- 

 wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly 

 met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority 

 of the same, That upon the recommendation 

 and nomination of a majority vote of the Penn- 

 sylvania State Bee-Keepers' Association, or by 

 the Economic Zoologist and the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, the Governor shall appoint for a 

 term of two years a State Inspector of Apiaries 

 who shall, if required, produce a certificate 

 from the Governor that He has been so ap- 

 pointed. He shall be subject to summary re- 

 moval for neglect or malfeasance in office, 

 on complaint of the Pennsylvania State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, or of twenty persons who 

 are actual bee-keepers, his successor to serve 

 for the balance of his unexpired term. 



Section 2. — The inspector shall inspect bees 

 kept in the State of Pennsylvania, and when 

 notified in writing by the owner of an apiary, 

 or by any three disinterested taxpayers, ex- 

 amine all reported apiaries and all others in 

 the same locality not reported, and ascertain 

 whether or not the disease known as foul brood 

 or any other disease which is infectious or 

 contagious in its nature and injurious to honey- 

 bees in their egg, larval or adult stage, exists 

 in such apiaries, and if satisfied of the exis- 

 tence of any such disease he shall give the 

 owners or care-takers of the diseased apiaries 

 full instructions how to treat such cases as in 

 the inspector's judgment seem best. 



Section 3. — The inspector shall visit all 

 diseased apiaries a second time, and if need 

 be burn all colonies of bees that he may find 

 not cured of such disease and all honey and 

 appliances which would spread disease, without 

 recompense to the owner, lessee or agent 

 thereof. 



Section 4. — If the owner of any apiary, 

 honey or appliances wherein disease exists shall 

 sell, barter or give away, or move without the 

 consent of the inspector, any diseased bees 

 (be they workers or queens) honey or ap- 

 pliances or expose other bees to the danger 

 of such disease, or fail to notify the inspector 

 of the existence of such disease, said owner 

 shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of 

 not more than one hundred dollars, nor more 

 than two months' imprisonment. 



Section 5. — By the enforcement of the pro- 

 visions of this act the State Inspector of 

 Apiaries shall have access, ingress and egress 

 to and from all apiaries or places where bees 

 are kept, and any person or persons who shall 

 resist, impede or hinder in any way the in- 

 spector of apiaries in the discharge of his du- 

 ties under the provisions of this act, shall. 



on conviction, be liable to a fine of not more 

 than one hundred dollars, or not more than 

 two months' imprisonment in the county jail. 

 All fines are to be turned into the State Treas- 

 ury. 



Section 6. — After inspecting infected hives 

 or fixtures, or handling diseased bees, the in- 

 spector shall, before leaving the premises or 

 proceeding to any other apiary, thoroughly dis- 

 infect his person and clothing and tools and 

 implements used by him. 



Section 7. — It shall be the duty of any per- 

 son in the State of Pennsylvania engaged in 

 rearing of queen-bees for sale to use. in mail- 

 ing cages which have been boiled for at least 

 thirty minutes. Any such persons engaged in 

 the rearing of queen-bees shall have his queen- 

 rearing apiary or apiaries inspected at least 

 twice during each summer season, and on the 

 existence of any disease which is infectious 

 or contageous in its nature and injurious to 

 bees in their egg, larval or adult stages, said 

 person shall at once cease to ship queen-bees 

 from such diseased apiary until the inspector 

 of apiaries shall declare the said apiary free 

 from all disease. Any person violating the 

 provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty 

 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 

 subject to a fine of not more than two hundred 

 dollars. 



Section 8. — The inspector of apiaries shall 

 make monthly reports to the Economic Zoolo- 

 gist, giving the number of apiaries visited, 

 the number of diseased apiaries found, the 

 number of colonies treated, also the number 

 of colonies destroyed by fire, and the expense 

 incurred in the performance of his duty. He 

 shall also keep a careful record of the locali- 

 ties where the diseases exist, but this record 

 shall not be published, but can be consulted 

 by any citizen interested. 



Section g.- — There is hereby appropriated out 

 of any moneys in the State Treasury a sum not 

 exceeding three thousand dollars per year for 

 the suppression of contagious diseases among 

 bees in Pennsylvania. 



The inspector of apiaries shall receive four 

 dollars per day and traveling expenses for 

 actual time served, which sum shall not ex- 

 ceed the moneys hereby appropriated to be paid 

 by the State Treasurer upon warrants drawn 

 by the Auditor General, and sliall be authorized 

 to employ such temporary aid as he may need 

 at a salary of not more than three dollars per 

 day and expenses. 



Section 10. — .^.11 acts and parts of acts in- 

 consistent herewith are hereby repealed. 



Section ii. — This act shall take effect imme- 

 diately. 



On motion the report of the commit- 

 tee was accepted with thanks, and the 

 committee continued. 



Prof. Surface then spoke of the im- 

 portance of the bee-keepers to urge upon 

 the legislators the necessity of such a 

 law when the next Legislature convened. 



Pres. Klinger then gave the annual ad- 

 dress. He told of the strides that bee- 

 keeping had been making. The loss 

 caused by foul brood is as destructive 

 to the bee-keepers as the San Jose scale 

 is to the fruit industry. Another suc- 

 cess was the securing of the meeting 

 of the National this year. Another thing 

 we stand for is good fellowship. The 

 people need to be educated to the value 

 of honey and the beneficial results of 

 bees as pollenizers. 



The election was then held with the 

 following result : Prof. H. C. Klinger, 

 of Liverpool, re-elected president ; C. N. 

 Green, L E. Miller and George Rea were 

 elected vice-presidents ; and A. F. Sat- 

 terthwait, of Harrisburg, was elected 

 secretary-treasurer. 



Evening Session. 



The meeting was called to order by 

 Pres. Klinger. The committee on dues 

 reported that they deemed it advisable 

 that 25 cents of the dues of the local 

 association be allowed to remain with 

 them, and the remaining 75 cents be 

 turned over to the State and National 

 associations. On motion the report was 

 adopted. 



On motion it was decided that the sum 



of $20 be paid to the secretary-treas- 

 urer as a compensation for his work. 



It was voted to hold the next meet- 

 ing in York, Pa., in October, 1907. 



Bee-Sting Cure for Rheumatism. 



Prof. Surface gave a very interesting 

 talk on the bee-sting cure for rheuma- 

 tism, giving a method where by the use 

 of a hypodermic syringe the formic acid 

 could be injected under the skin, causing 

 no pain, and the rheumatism or lum- 

 bago would disappear in 48 hours. This 

 does not cure in every case but is a 

 cure in the greater majority of cases. 



Pond's extract of witch hazel will re- 

 lieve the swelling and pain of a bee- 

 sting. 



Mr. Reneker, who has had consider- 

 able experience with rheumatism and 

 bee-stings as a cure, stated that he had 

 received a severe stinging with the bees 

 and had been completely cured of rheu- 

 matism ever since. He has also been 

 immune to the sting of the bee as a 

 result of the stinging fracas. 



Mr. France cautioned people who were 

 affected with scrofula to beware of bee- 

 stings, for it is liable to prove fatal to 

 them in a few minutes. Prof. Surface 

 gave it as his personal opinion that a su- 

 perabundance of bee-stings caused a 

 bloodless condition; that is, a lack or 

 insufficiency of red corpuscles with an 

 excess of white corpuscles. Mr. Holter- 

 mann found it advisable to keep some 

 strong stimulant at hand to be used in 

 case of severe stinging, when the heart 

 is affected. Spirits of ammonia was 

 suggested to be used in such cases. Pres. 

 Klinger cited an instant where his aged 

 father had been rheumatic and was 

 stung a number of times on the knee 

 while hiving a swarm, and had had 

 no rheumatism since. This was three 

 years ago. 



A motion decided that the executive 

 committee of this association be empow- 

 ered to send a man to aid or assist in 

 the organization of local associations, as 

 they deemed best. 



Second Day. 



A meeting was called to finish up some 

 things that had been left over from the 

 preceding day. 



Pres. Klinger called it to order. The 

 committee on resolutions offered the fol- 

 lowing report, which was adopted : 



We, the members of the Pennsylvania State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association in convention assem- 

 bled at Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 29, 1907, offer 

 the following resolutions: 



Resolved. That we express the thanks of the 

 Pennsylvania State Bee-Keepers' Association to 

 Dr. N. C. Schaffer, Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, for granting us free use of the 

 audience of his department for our meeting, 

 and also the use of the adjoining room for our 

 exhibitions. 



Resolved, That we thank the Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. for granting 

 leave of absence to Dr. E. F. Phillips, Burton 

 N. Gates, and Franklin G. Fox, to attend our 

 convention. 



Resolved, That we thank our retiring Secre- 

 tary, Franklin G. Fox, for his untiring efforts 

 in behalf of the interest of our association. 



Resolved, That we thank N. E. France, Geo. 

 W. York and K. F. Holtcrmann, for their pres- 

 ence and interest taken in our State meeting. 



Resolved, That we recommend individual ac- 

 tion by our members to increase the useful- 

 ness and membership of our State Associa- 

 tion, and united action in supporting nominee, 

 Prof. H. A. Surface, for election as a mem- 

 ber of the board of directors of our National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association. 



Geo. H. Rea, 

 E. S. Hacker. 

 J. D. Hull, 



Commitee. 



The subject of gathering crop reports 



