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Koul=Broocl.— We give our readers 

 the full text o£ the new foul-brood law iu 

 Ontario, Canada. It is the one Mr. Allen 

 Pringle referred to, in his essay at the 

 Keokuk ConTention, and published on page 

 763 of the Bee Jourxal. It reads as 

 follows : 



Her Majesty, by and with the advice and 

 consent of the Legislative Assembly of the 

 Province of Ontario, enacts as follows ; 



l._(l) The Ontario Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation shall at each annual meeting, or the 

 directors of the said Association shall, if in 

 the interval between two annual meetings 

 the occasion should arise, appoint an in- 

 spector of apiaries, and a sub-inspector for 

 the Province of Ontario, and the said 

 inspector and sub inspector shall be elected 

 by the vote of the majority of the members 

 of said Association, present at the annual 

 meeting, or the vote of the majority of the 

 directors as the case may be. Any annual 

 meeting may delegate the annual appoint- 

 ment of an inspector and sub-inspector to 

 the newly-elected board of directors. 



(2) The said sub inspector may, when so 

 directed, as hereinafter provided, perform 

 all the duties and exercise all the powers in 

 this Act directed to be performed or exer- 

 cised by the inspector, and the provisions 

 of this Act relating to the inspector shall be 

 deemed to apply to and include the said 

 sub-inspector. 



(3) The inspector or sub inspector on 

 entering upon any premi.ses in the dis- 

 charge of his duties shall, if so required, 

 produce the certificate of the President of 

 the said Association, that he has been 

 appointed as such inspector, or sub-inspec- 

 tor, as the case may be. 



2. The said inspector and sub-inspector 

 shall hold office for one year from the date 

 of the annual meeting, at which they were 

 appointed, or if they shall have been ap- 

 pointed by the directors, then until the 

 next annual meeting after such appoint- 

 ment, and shall be eligible for re-election ; 

 but the said inspector or sub inspector 

 may at any time, subject to the ap- 

 proval of the Lieutenant-Governor in 

 Council, be removed from office by the 

 directors for neglect of duty or other suffi- 

 cient cause, and in case of such removal, 

 the directors shall without delay appoint a 

 successor. 



3. The said inspector shall, whenever so 

 directed by the President of the Ontario 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, visit without 

 unnecessary delay, any locality in the 

 Province of Ontario, and there examine 

 any apiary or apiaries to which the said 

 President may direct him, and ascertain 

 whether or not the disease known as " foul- 

 brood " exists in such apiary or apiaries, 

 and whenever the said inspector shall be 

 satisfied of the existence of foul-brood in 

 its virulent or malignant type, it shall be 

 the duty of the inspector to order all colo- 

 nies so affected, together with the hives 

 occupied by them, and the contents of such 

 hives, and all tainted appurtenances that 

 cannot be disinfected, to be immediately 

 destroyed by fire under the personal direc- 

 tion and superintendence of the said in- 

 spector, and after inspecting infected hives 

 or fixtures, or handling diseased bees, the 

 inspector shall,before leaving the premises, 

 or proceeding to any other apiary, thor- 

 oughly disinfect his own person and cloth- 

 ing, and shall see that any assistant or 

 assistants with him have also thoroughly 

 disinfected their persons and clothing ; 

 provided, that where the inspector, who 



shall be the sole judge thereof, shall be 

 satisfied that the disease exists, but only in 

 milder types, and in its incipient stages, 

 and is being, or may be treated success- 

 fully, and the inspector has reason to 

 believe that it may be entirely cured, then 

 the inspector may, in his discretion, omit 

 to destroy, or order the destruction of the 

 colonies and hives in which the disease 

 exists. 



4. The inspector shall have full power, 

 in his discretion, to order any owner or 

 possessor of bees dwelling in box-hives in 

 apiaries where the disease exists (being 

 mere boxes without frames), to transfer 

 such bees to movable frame hives within a 

 specified time, and in default of such trans- 

 fer the inspector may destroy, or order the 

 destruction of such box hives and the bees 

 dwelling therein. 



5. Should the owner or possessor of dis- 

 eased colonies of bees, or of any infected 

 appliances for bee keeping, knowingly seU 

 or barter, or give away such diseased colo- 

 nies, or infected appliances, he shall, on 

 conviction before any justice of the peace, 

 be liable to a fine of not less than $50 or 

 more than $100, or to imprisonment for 

 any term not exceeding two months. 



6. Should any person whose bees have 

 been destroyed or treated for foul-brood, 

 sell, or offer for sale any bees, hives, or 

 appurtenances of any kind, after such 

 destruction or treatment, and before being 

 authorized by the inspector so to do, or 

 should he expose in his bee-yard, or else- 

 where, any infected comb-honey, or other 

 infected thing, or conceal the fact that said 

 disease exists among his bees, he shall, on 

 conviction before a justice of the peace, be 

 liable to a fine of not less than $20, and not 

 more than $50, or to imprisonment for a 

 term not exceeding two months, and not 

 less than one month. 



7. Should any owner or possessor of bees 

 refuse toallow the inspectoror his assistant 

 orassistants to freely examinesaid bees, or 

 the premises in which they are kept,or should 

 such owner or possessor refuse to destroy 

 the infected bees and appurtenances, or 

 permit them to be destroyed when so 

 directed by the inspector, he may, on the 

 complaint of the inspector, be summoned 

 before a justice of the peace, and on con- 

 %'iction shall be liable to a fine of not more 

 than $50 or less than $35 for the first 

 offence, and not more than $100, or less 

 than $50 for the second and any subse- 

 quent offences, and the said justice of the 

 peace shall make an order directing the 

 said owner or possessor forthwith to carry 

 out the directions of the inspector. 



8' Where an owner or possessor of bees 

 shall disobey the directions of the said 

 inspector or ofifer resistance to, or obstruct 

 the said inspector, a Justice of the peace 

 may upon the complaint of the said inspec- 

 tor, cause a sufficient number of special 

 constables to be sworn in, and such special 

 constables shall under the directions of the 

 inspector proceed to the premises of such 

 owner or jaossessor and assist the inspector 

 to seize all the diseased colonies and 

 infected appurtenances, and burn them 

 forthwith, and if necessary the said inspec- 

 tor or constables may arrest the said owner 

 or possessor, and bring him before a justice 

 of the peace to be dealt with according to 

 the provisions of the preceding section of 

 this Act. 



9. Before proceeding against any person 

 before a justice of the peace, the said 

 inspector shall read over to such person 

 the provisions of this Act, or shall cause a 

 copy thereof to be delivered to such 

 person. 



10. Every bee-keeper or other person 

 who shall be aware of the existence of foul- 

 brood either in his own apiary nr elsewhere 

 shall immediately notify the President of 



the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association of 

 the existence of such disease, and in default 

 of so doing, shall, on summary conviction 

 before a justice of the peace be liable to a 

 fine of $5 and costs. 



11. Upon receiving the notice in the 

 preceding section mentioned, or in any 

 way becoming aware of the existence of 

 foul-brood in any locality, the said Presi- 

 dent shall immediately direct the said 

 inspector to proceed to and inspect the 

 infected premises ; provided that when the 

 person giving such notice is unknown to 

 said President, or there is reason to believe 

 that the information in said notice is un- 

 trustworthy, or that the person giving such, 

 notice is actuated by improper motives, 

 then the said President may require the 

 person giving such notice to deposit the 

 sum of $5 with the President as a guaran- 

 tee of good faith, before the said notice 

 shall be acted upon, and if it shall prove 

 that said notice was properly given, then 

 the said deposit shall be returned to the 

 person giving such notice ; but otherwise 

 the said deposit shall be forfeited to the use 

 of the said Ontario Bee Keepers' Associa- 

 tion. 



13. The said Association shall include in 

 its annual report to the Minister of Agricul- 

 ture a statement of the inspector's work 

 during the preceding year, which state- 

 ment shall include the number of colonies 

 destroyed by order of the inspector, and 

 the localities where found, and the amount 

 paid to him for his services and expenses- 

 for the preceding year. 



13. The directors of the said Association 

 may from time to time make such by-laws- 

 and regulations for the control and gsid- 

 ance of the inspector in carrying out the 

 provisions of this Act, as they may deeni 

 necessary, and the said directors shall also 

 by by-law fix the amount of the remunera- 

 tion of the said inspector and sub-inspector, 

 but all such by-laws and regulations shall 

 be subject to the approval of the Minister 

 of Agriculture. 



Italian Bees carry off the palm. The 

 Times, of Fonda, Iowa, has the following 

 from the Rev. R. E. Flickinger, as the result 

 of one year's experience with Italian bees. 

 He says : 



In August, 1889, 1 purchased for $1.00, 

 the first pure Italian bee ever brought to 

 Fonda. She was placed in a weak colony 

 having only four or five combs. It was the 

 lightest colony when placed into winter 

 quarters, but in the Spring it was in better 

 working condition than any of the other 

 colonies, some of which were very strong 

 in the Fall. 



On April 7 one comb of brood was taken 

 from this colony, that another hive might 

 be provided with an Italian queen. During 

 mv absence in the East, on or about May 

 25 the colony was divided by Mr. Busby, 

 and a new colony was formed. On July 

 15, three combs were again removed, and 

 another colony was formed. 



The receipts were $34 from the sales of 

 one colony of Italians, and comb and ex- 

 tracted honey. The expenditures were $b, 

 leaving a profit of $18. 



It should be added that when combs of 

 brood were removed from the hive for 

 rearing queens, or forming new colonies, 

 their places were supplied by empty ones, 

 of which no allowance has been made in 

 this estimate. 



The fact that the experiment was be^n 

 with the weakest colony, and the profits 

 from it exceeded those of all the other 

 colonies in the apiary indicate ^]? ^ JJ^l 

 decided manner the advantage of keeping 

 Italians instead of common bees. 



