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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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provision has been to drive out of the busi- 

 ness automatically the great majority of the 

 ignorant and careless, leaving only the 

 frame-hive men to deal with. 



Presumably, the man who adopts up-to- 

 date bee-appliances is the one who will do 

 his best to keep his bees clean. That is how 

 we find it; and since doing away with the 

 box-hive man we have been able to clean 

 whole districts that were previously rotten 

 with disease. I would ask, how is it possible 

 for inspectors to do efficient work where 

 there are fixed combs in boxes? Some must 

 be cut out to be examined, and in this act 

 they are compelled to do the very thing 

 which will spread disease, to say nothing 

 about the enormous amount of time requir- 

 ed to examine thoroughly a box-hive apiary, 

 as comi:)ared with one of movable-frame 

 hives. 



Our impression here is, that, with all your 

 acts and inspectors in the different States, 

 you are not making much headway, if any, 

 against disease; and this impression is made 

 through the reports that appear from time 

 to time in your own bee literature. Do away 

 with all but movable-frame hives, then you 

 will do away with the root cause of most of 

 the trouble in controlling disease. 



I hope, Mr. Editor, you will take my crit- 

 icism in good part, for believe me I mean 

 well, and recognize the assistance I have re- 

 ceived, in my own progress, from American 

 bee literature. 



Here is a copy of a digest of our Apiaries 

 Act. 



Auckland, Next Zealand. 



THE APIARIES ACT. 



The foUowing is a digest of the Apiaries Act which 

 came into force September 14, 1907: 



INTERPRETATION. 



_ 2. In this Act. if not inconsistent with the context, 

 "Apiary " means any place where bees are Icept. 



"Bee-keeper " means any person who keeps bees 

 or allows the same to be kept upon any land occu- 

 pied by him. 



" Disease ■' means foul brood [Bacillus alvei and 

 Bacillus larvcp), bee-moths (Oalleria mellonella and 

 Achroea grizeUa), and any other diseases or pests 

 from time to time declared by the Governor in 

 Council to be diseases within the meaning of this 

 Act. 



" Frame hive " means a hive containing movable 

 frames in which the combs are built, and which 

 may be readily removed from the hive for exami- 

 nation. 



" Inspector " means any person appointed by the 

 Governor as an Inspector under this Act. 



BEE-KEEPER TO GIVE NOTICE OF DISEASE. 



3. Every bee-keeper in whose apiary any disease 

 appears shall, within seven days after first becom- 

 ing aware of its presence, send written notice there- 

 of to the Secretary for Agriculture, at Wellington, 

 or to any Inspector of Stock. 



POWERS OF INSPECTORS. 



5. Any Inspector may enter upon any premises 

 or buildings for the purpose of examining any bees, 

 hives, or bee appliances; and if the same are found 

 to be infected with disease he shall direct the bee- 

 keeper to take forthwith such measures as may be 

 necessary to cure the disease; or if, in the opinion 

 of the Inspector, the disease is too fully developed 

 to be cured, he may direct the bee-keeper within 

 a specified time to destroy by fire the bees, hives, 

 and appliances so infected, or such portions there- 

 of as the Inspector deems necessary. 



REMOVAL OF BEES TO NEW HIVES. 



6. In any case in which it Is found by an Inspector 

 that the bee-combs in any hive can not, without 



cutting, be separately and readily removed from 

 the hive for examination, he may direct the bee- 

 keeper to transfer the bees to a new frame hive 

 within a specified time. 



INSPECTOR'S DIRECTIONS TO BE OBEYED. 



7. (1) Every direction by an Inspector shall be in 

 writing under his hand, and shall be either deliver- 

 ed to the bee-keeper personally or sent to him by 

 registered letter addressed to him at his last-known 

 place of abode. 



(2) Every such direction shall be faithfully com- 

 plied with by the bee-keeper to whom it is address- 

 ed, and, in default of compliance within the time 

 specified, the Inspector may, within one month, 

 destroy or cause to be destroyed by fire, at the ex- 

 pense of the bee-keeper, any bees, hives, and appli- 

 ances found to be infected with disease. 



INFECTED BEES, ETC., NOT TO BE KEPT OR SOLD. 



8. No bee-keeper shall — 



(a) Keep or allow to be kept upon any land occu- 

 pied by him any bees, bee-combs, hives, or appli- 

 ances known by him to be infected by disease with- 

 out immediately taking the properj steps to cure 

 the disease; or 



(6) Sell, barter, or give away any bees or appli- 

 ances from an apiary known by him to be infected 

 by disease. 



FRAME HIVES TO BE USED. 



9. No bee-keeper shall, after the expiry of six 

 months from the passing of this Act, keep, or know- 

 ingly allow to be kept on any land occupied by him, 

 any bees except in a properly constructed frame 

 hive. 



OFFENSES. 



10. Every person is liable to a fine not exceeding 

 five pounds who — 



(a) Obstructs an Inspector in the exercise of his 

 duties under this Act, or refuses to destroy or to 

 permit the destruction of infected bees or appli- 

 ances: 



(b) Fails to comply with any direction given un- 

 der the provisions of this Act by any Inspector: 



(c) Commits any other breach of this Act. 



THE VALUE OF BEE AND HONEY EXHIBI- 

 TIONS TO THE BEE-KEEPING FRA- 

 TERNITY. 



BY ADOLPH LOEHR. 



We have annually at Madison Square 

 Garden (the colosseum of New York) a series 

 of trade exhibitions and shows where men 

 of various callings gather, either to sell or 

 advertise their wares or to gain a knowledge 

 of the newest productions and general prog- 

 ress of their particular line of business, and 

 in some instances to place orders. The gen- 

 eral public is always well represented, be- 

 cause, to the casual observer, these exhibi- 

 tions are very educating. The annual 

 house-furnishing show is one of these exhi- 

 bitions. When the writer learned from a 

 daily paper that bees were going to play a 

 part in the coming show he wondered of 

 what interest they might be in furnishing a 

 home, and attended the show to find out. 



After passing by the various booths of the 

 house-furnishers, where many new and in- 

 teresting specialties were shown, we were 

 attracted by a great crowd gathered about a 

 large cage listening to a "demonstrator" 

 inside the cage. At first we could not hear 

 what this gentleman was saying, because a 

 band of young musicians were evidently 

 trying to prove their capability of filling ev- 

 ery cubic inch in the great hall with the 

 blasts from their lungs. By an occasional 

 peek through the depths of the millinery on 



