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thorized and required to provide for the 

 publication of the proclamation required 

 by Section 3, and to formulate such rules 

 and regulations as it may deem proper, to 

 govern the actions of the fruit tree inspec- 

 tor in his duties, and to give such public 

 notice as it may deem proper in relation to 

 the disinfecting of store rooms, warehouses 

 and salesrooms whose fruits in either a 

 green or dried state may be stored, hand- 

 led or offered for sale. 



Sec. 6. Any owner, occupant or person in 

 charge of land on which fruit trees are 

 growing who has been notified as provided 

 for in Section 4 of this Act to disinfect his 

 trees or vines, who shall fail or neglect 

 without sufficient cause to comply with 

 said notice, shall, after conviction in a 

 court having jurisdiction, be deemed guilty 

 of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 7. When the owner, occupant or 

 person in charge of premises shall have 

 been convicted on account of neglect or 

 failure to carry out the provisions of Sec- 

 tion 6 of this Act, and he still refuses to 

 comply therewith, all infested trees or vines 

 on his premises may be disinfected at the 

 expense of the owner or occupant of the 

 premises. 



Sec. 8. Any person who fails to disinfect 

 his store-room, warehouse or salesroom as 

 directed by the fruit-tree inspector, shall 

 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 9. All persons importing or export- 

 ing trees in any county must get the in- 

 spector's certificate that such trees are free 

 from fruit-destroying insects, their larvae 

 or their pupae, and a failure to neglect so to 

 do, shall subject them to the penalties pro- 

 vided for in Section 8 of this Act. 



Sec. 10. The compensation of the fruit- 

 tree inspector shall be fixed by the county 

 court, and paid out of the county treasury ; 

 and all fines collected under the provisions 

 of this Act shall be paid into the county 

 treasury. 



Sec. 11. This Act shall take effect from 

 and after its approval. 



Reply to Dr. C.C.Miller. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY REV. W. F. CLARKE. 



Your letter in the American Bee 

 Journal of May 10th does not mend 

 matters at all. Palaver as you may, you 

 are scholar enough to know that " Rev. 

 Clarke " is not a courteous mode of allu- 

 sion ; nor is it grammatically correct. It 

 is not the omission of the initials that I 

 chiefly find fault with, but the entire 

 tout ensemble of the phrase. It is as 

 though I were to refer to you as "Med. 

 Miller." I take no clerical airs, and ask 

 no obeisance from you or anybody else 

 as an ambassador from heaven, because 

 I take no stock in that kind of thing. 



The Bible says, "Be courteous," and 

 " Honor all men." I am everlastingly 

 down on the faraliiarities and discourt- 

 esies that so often disfigure and degrade 

 our bee-journals. 



You say I would overlook the 

 "chuckle" and "gloat" if I realized 

 how badly you have felt over my putting 

 forth such a theory. What right have 

 you to worry about auy theory of mine ? 

 It is none of your funeral. You intimate 

 that I have made myself ridiculous. I 

 deny it. No theory put forth in good 

 faith will excite ridicule in the breast of 

 a wise man, and as for fools, I am not 

 catering for them. 



I made it sufficiently plain that I put 

 forth the sting-trowel theory merely as 

 a matter of opinion, yet you thrust it 

 upon me as a dogmatic and positive as- 

 sertion of fact, and the simple truth is 

 that, like all fanatics and bigots, you 

 will not permit another to hold an opin- 

 ion except on grounds that are satisfac- 

 tory and conclusive to your mind. You 

 would not, you say, hurt a hair of my 

 head, but you have hurt my feelings 

 many times by unkind allusions to the 

 matter, and now insist on my stating a 

 falsehood. This I refuse, point blank, 

 to do, to please you or any other person. 



You have nothing to say on the scien- 

 tific points I raised, so I naturally con- 

 clude that you find them unanswerable. 



Guelph, Ont. 



Bees anJ PolUnalion of Blossoins. 



BY PROF. A. J. COOK. 



[A Lecture Delivered Before the /Southern 

 California Fonwlogical Society at Pasa- 

 dena, on May 3, 1894.] 



(Continued from page 662). 



EXPERIMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 

 AGRICULTURE. 



After commencing this essay, I re- 

 ceived Bulletin No. 5, of the Division of 

 Vegetable Pathology, from the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, on 

 the " Pollination of Pear Flowers," by 

 Merton B. Waite. I much regret that I 

 did not receive this in time to fully de- 

 scribe the many valuable experiments, 

 or at least to give a full summary of the 

 important conclusions reached. The 

 experiments seem to have been very 

 carefully planned, very ingenious, and, 

 from our knowledge of the men who had 

 them in charge, we know that they 

 would be very carefully executed. The 

 experiments were conducted at Brock- 



