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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Dec. 1 



conviction before a justice of the peace, be liable to a 

 fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one 

 hundred dollars, or not less than one month's impris- 

 onment in the county jail, nor more than two months' 

 imprisonment. 



Sec. 5. For the enforcement of the provisions of this 

 act the State Inspector of Apiaries or his duly author- 

 ized assistants shall have access, ingress, and egress 

 to all apiaries or places where bees are kept; and any 

 person or persons who shall resist, impede, or hinder 

 in any way the inspector of apiaries in the discharge 

 of his duties under the provisions of this act shall, on 

 conviction before a justice of the peace, be liable to a 

 fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one 

 hundred dollars, or not less than one month's impris- 

 onment in the county jail, nor more than two months' 

 imprisonment. 



Sec. 6. After inspecting infected hives or fixtures or 

 handling diseased bees, the inspector or his assistant 

 shall, before leaving the premises or proceeding to any 

 other apiary, thoroughly disinfect any portion of 

 his own person and clothing and any tools or appli- 

 ances used by him which have come in contact with 

 infected material, and shall see that any assistant or 

 assistants with him have likewise thoroughly disinfect- 

 ed their persons and clothing and any tools and imple- 

 ments used by them. 



Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of any person in the State 



of engaged in the rearing of queen-bees for sale 



to use honey in the making of candy for use in mail- 

 ing-cages which has been boiled for at least thirty 

 minutes. Any such person 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 discovery of the existence of any 

 disease which is infectious or contagious in its nature, 

 and injurious to bees in their egg, larval, pupal, or 

 adult stages, said person shall at once cease to ship 

 queen-bees from such diseased apiary until the in- 

 spector of apiaries shall declare the said apiary free 

 from all disease. On complaint of the inspector of 

 apiaries, or of any five bee-keepers in the State, that 

 said bee-keeper engaged in the rearing of queens is 

 violating the provisions of this section, he shall, on 

 conviction before a justice of the peace, be liable to a 

 fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more 

 than two hundred dollars. 



Sec. 8. The inspector of apiaries shall make annual 



reports to the , giving the number of apiaries 



visited, the number of diseased apiaries found, the 

 number of colonies treated, also the number of colo- 

 nies destroyed, and the expenses incurred in the per- 

 formance of his duty. He shall also keep a careful 

 record of the localities where disease exists; but this 

 record shall not be public, but can be consulted with 

 the consent of the inspector of apiaries. 



Sec. 9. There is hereby appropriated out of any mon- 

 eys in the State treasury, not otherwise appropriated, 

 a sum not exceeding per year, for the suppres- 

 sion of contagious bee diseases among bees in . 



The salary of the deputy inspectors shall be deter- 

 mined by the State Inspector of Apiaries. 



Sec. 10. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent here- 

 with are hereby repealed. 



Sec. 11. This act shall take effect immediately. 



IS RHEUMATISM EVER CURED BY BEE- 

 STINGS? 



BY DR. A. F. BONNEY. 



How many have been stung times untold, 

 and still have rheumatism? I will add my 

 testimony to that of Mr. Crane, last year, by 

 stating that I have the muscular rheumatism 

 just the same as before I became practically 

 immune to bee-poison. My friena Mr. Ray, 

 who lives a few miles south of me, will say 

 the same. 



I consider the popular belief, or supersti- 

 tion, that bee-stings will cure rheumatism il- 

 logical, unsupported by conclusive evidence, 

 and with no foundation in fact, and shall 

 call attention to one of the strongest cases 

 you have published, that of Mr. Landis, p. 153, 

 last year. His case is weak, because rheu- 

 matism is very frequently self-limited, i. e.. 



nature expels the poison, uric acid, and the 

 patient recovers, frequently without any 

 medication whatever. Mr. Landis says, "I 

 took all the truck imaginable." 



Patent-medicine men frequently win as do 

 the bees. They chance to get the last whack 

 at those who take "all the truck imagina- 

 ble," and thus they get the credit of curing 

 all sorts of ailments, from corns to ingrow- 

 ing conscience. 



Now, let bee men write briefly on the sub- 

 ject, for I believe nine-tenths of the people 

 have rheumatism some time, as do many of 

 the dumb brutes, and I shall not be surprised 

 to find that even the bees themselves suffer 

 from it; and when the evidence is all in I do 

 not think there will be any thing more heard 

 of the ghost story that bee-stings cure rheu- 

 matism or any thing else unless it be a plac- 

 id temper, even when applied "gently," as 

 in the case of Mr. Lewis, tne hired hand Mr. 

 Crane mentioned in connection with himself. 

 May 15, 1908; and going into //?a/ case, I, from 

 much observation, can almost declare that 

 the man's trouble would have abated shortly 

 without any other treatment than getting 

 out of "a damp pulp-mill." 



Buck Grove, Iowa. 



THE CONSUMERS DOLLAR. 



BY WESLEY FOSTER. 



Considerable talk, with figures to empha- 

 size the points, has been going on in the 

 farm papers concerning the per cent of the 

 consumer's dollar that the producer gets. 

 The idea most held is that the producer 

 should have it all, or nearly all. A question 

 might be asked as to what production is. Is 

 it not as much production to carry a case of 

 honey a thousand miles as it is to carry a su- 

 per into the honey-house ? Then if we are 

 to eliminate the middleman (and we should, 

 just as much as possible), what share of this 

 saving belongs to the consumer? Manifest- 

 ly a part does belong to the consumer, 

 though if the producer pushes out the mid- 

 dleman he will feel that the credit and prof- 

 its belong to him. If I sell ten cases of comb 

 honey at grocery stores in Boulder at from 

 $2.75 to $3 25, or an average of $5.00 per 

 case, it will bring me $30 00. This honey is 

 retailed by the grocer at 15 to 20 cts. per 

 comb, a larger amount retailing at 15 than at 

 20 cts. Grocers here never sell any thing at 

 16 or 17; it's either 15 or 20 or 25. 



The average for those ten cases would not 

 run over 16 'X cts. retail, or $3 96 a case; so 

 out of a retail price of $39.60 I got $30 00 

 from the grocer, or over 75 per cent. If I 

 shipped to a commission house in Denver, 

 the express would be $1.00; cartage, 25 or 50 

 cts.; commission ten per cent, or $3 00, and 

 I would get only about $25.00 out of a retail 

 price of, say, $40,00, or 64 cts. of the con- 

 sumer's dollar. These prices are higher 

 than the average, and net the producer more 

 than is ordinarily received. One-half is about 

 what I would say the producer gets of the 

 consumer's money. 



