1901 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



297 



suppression of foul brood, and I suspect that 

 oue man in one of the California counties, 

 at lea^ Ventura, would have all he could do. 

 The full text of the law reads : 



AN ACT 



To Promote the .\p'ciiltviral Interests of the State of 

 California by pioviding County Inspectors of Api- 

 aries, and defining their duties, and providing lor 

 their compensation, and rept aling the hct entitled 

 " An Act lo authoiize the Board of Supervisors of 

 the several counties of this State to appoint In>pect- 

 ors of Apiarie>, and provide for their compensa- 

 tion, and defining tlieir duties, and for the fiirlher 

 protection of Bee Culture." Approved March 13, 

 1883. 

 Thb P£0PLK of the State of California, repre- 

 sented in Senate and Asj-embly, d i enact as follows: 

 Section 1. Whenever a petition is present'rd to the 

 Board of Supervisors of any county, signed by ten or 

 m ^re persons, each of whom is a property-holder res- 

 ident i^f the county, and pos-e.--sor of an apiaiy. or 

 place wheie bees are kept, .-tatiiig that certain or all 

 apiaries within the county are infected with the dis- 

 ease known as "foul bro d," or any other disease 

 which i.-i infeciious or contagious in its nature, and in- 

 juiioustothe bees, their eggs, or Uirvte, and praying 

 that an inspector be appointed by them, whose duty it 

 shall lie to supervii-e the treatment of said bees and 

 apiaiies as herein provided, the Board of Supeivisors 

 shall, wiihin tv\enty days therealter, appoint a suita- 

 ble person, who shall be a skilled beekeeper, Inspect- 

 or of Apiarits. Vpon petition c f ten persons, each 

 of whom is a resident proper ty-holder, and possessor 

 of an apiary, the Board of .Supervisors may remove 

 said Inspector for cause, after a healing of the peti- 

 tion. 



Section 2 It shall be the duty of the Inspector in 

 each county to cause an inspection to be made, when 

 he deems it nece'-sar\', of any or every apiary, or other 

 place within his jurisuictiun in which bets are kept ; 

 and if found infected with lonl brood, or any other in- 

 fectious or contagious distase injurious to the bees, or 

 their eggs or larvte, he shall notify the owner or own- 

 ers, person or persons, in charge, or in possession of 

 said apiaries, or places where bees arc kept, that the 

 same are infected with foul fiiood, or any other disease 

 infeciiou.s or contagions in its nature, and injurious to 

 bees, their eggs, or larvie, and he shall require such 

 person or persons to eradicate and remove such disease 

 or cause of contagion within a ceitain time to be speci- 

 fied. Said noi ice may be served upon the person or 

 per>ons, or either of them, owning or having charge, 

 or having possession of such infected apiaries, or 

 places where bees are kept, by any Inspector, or by 

 any person deputized by the said Inspector for that 

 purpose, or they may be seived in the same manner 

 as a summons in a civil action. Any and ail such api- 

 aries, or places where bees are kept, found infected 

 with foul brood, or any other infectious or contagious 

 dise;-.se, are hereby adjudged and declared to be a 

 public nuisance ; and whenever any such nuisance 

 shall exi.-t at any place within his jurisdiction, or 

 on the property of any noii - resident, or on any 

 property the owner or owners of which can not 

 be found by the Inspector, after diligent search, with- 

 in the county, or upon the property of any owner or 

 owners upon whom notice aforesaid has been served, 

 and who shall refuse or neglect to abate the same 

 within the time specified, it shall be the duty of the 

 Inspector to abate the same, either by treating the 

 disease, or by destroying the infected hives, together 

 with their combs and Dees therein. 



The expense thereof shall be a county charge, and 

 the Board of Supervisors shall allow and pay the .same 

 out of the general fund of the county. 



Section 3. It shall be the duty of the County In- 

 spector of Apiaries to keep a rtcoid of his official acts 

 and doings, and make a monthly report thereof to the 

 Board of Supervisors ; and the Board of Supervi.sors 

 may withhold warrants for salary of said Inspector 

 until such time as said report is made. 



Section 4. The salary of the County Inspector of 

 Apiaries shall be three dollars per day when actually 

 engaged in the performance of his duties. 



Sections. An Act entitled " An Act to authorize 

 the Board of Supervisers of the several counties of 

 this State to appoint Inspectors of Apiaries, and rro- 

 vide for their conioensation, and defining their duties, 

 and for the fmther protection of Bee Culture," ap- 

 proved March 18. 1883, is hereby rei^ealed. 



Section 6. This act shall take effect and be in force 

 from and alter its passage. 



PROF, cook's REVIEW OF THE ABC BOOK. 



In the columns of The ADieitcan Bee Jour- 

 nal Prof. Cook has given a review of " Da- 

 dant's Langstroth " and "Cowan's Honey- 

 bee," and now follows with a review of the 

 "ABC of Bee Culture." In his usual kindly 

 manner he says at the outset, " Without doubt 

 this book has exerted a wider influence upon 

 the bee-keeping world than any others ever 

 written. Even its rivals can only be joyous 

 in its extensive sale, as they know that, where- 

 ever it goes, it goes to help and bless. ' ' Com- 

 ing as those words do from one who is him- 

 self the author and publisher of a leading ri- 

 val work, the publishers of the ABC would 

 be hardly human if they did not feel a warm- 

 ing of the heart at their utterance. 



He then proceeds to point out passages in 

 which he thinks he has reason to believe there 

 is error, although admitting the possibility 

 thai in some cases he may be wrong. Some 

 of these may properly deserve consideration 

 and correction : in others there may be occa- 

 sion to take exception to Prof. Cook's excep- 

 tions. 



First, it is proper to call attention to the fact 

 that the criticisms are not based on the edition 

 issued last January, as one would suppose, but 

 on the old edition — the one put out nearly two 

 years ago. As it is, much that Prof. Cook 

 criticises is not in the new book at all, such 

 matter having been either re-written or strick- 

 en out altogether. 



As to the first error pointed out, there is no 

 error in the book, but the error consists in 

 very careless reading on the part of the re- 

 viewer — a carelessness that is hardly excusa- 

 ble, for one expects extreme carefulness on 

 the part of one who points out the errors of 

 others. The ABC, page 2, in discussing 

 what is to be done with second swarms that 

 issue, says in effect that they must be watch- 

 ed, climbed after, and hived. This sentence 

 is immediately followed by another which 

 says, "If one thinks this too much trouble, 

 he should prevent having after-swarms as I 

 advise under that head." He ignores the fact 

 that the watching and climbing refers only to 

 swarms that have issued, to say nothing of the 

 fact that it would be an impossibility to pre- 

 vent the issuing of a swarm after the swarm 

 has actually issued. He goes on to give the 

 Heddon as the best method of preventing 

 second swarms. In the edition just out of the 

 press the very next sentence refers to the place 

 where, among other methods of preventing 

 after swarms, the Heddon plan is given more 

 fully and correctly than it is given by the re- 

 viewer. If careless reading is inexcusable on 

 the part of a critic, still less is careless quota- 

 tion vvhen the exact words are pretended to 

 be given inside quotation-marks. In answer 

 to the question as to what shall be done with 

 a second swarm that has issued, the ABC 

 says, "Candidly, I don't know of any better 

 way than," etc. "Candidly, I don't know 

 any better way to prevent second swarriis 

 than," etc., is the way Prof. Cook quotes it. 

 "We feel sure that he will say there is no sufB- 

 cient excuse for interjecting the words " to 

 prevent second swarms " in a direct quotation 



