64 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



No program is given but the letter states that the main fea- 

 ture of their conventions has been the question box, and asks the 

 members to come prepared with questions. This ought to be a 

 live convention, judging" by the large number of progressive bee- 

 keepers in that state. 



Imperial County, California, Establishes Quarantine Against 

 Importation of Bees. 



]\Ir. A. F. ^^'ag■ner. inspector of apiaries of Imperial County, 

 California, informs me that the Board of Supervisors of Imperial 

 County have just passed an ordinance, which becomes effective 

 February 1, 191"^, preventing bees from being brought into the 

 county from infected counties. He states that Imperial County 

 contains about 11,000 colonies of bees, and with the prospects of a 

 poor season in coast counties, there was danger of importing brood 

 diseases. Any violation of the ordinance is punishable by fine or 

 imprisonment, or both. 



Another California County Taking Precaution. 



Those California bee-keepers evidently do not intend to be 

 taken unawares. E. F. McDonald, of Santa Paula, writes me that 

 the \'entura County Bee-Keepers' Club at their meeting held at 

 Fillmore, January 6th, voted to unite in a body w'ith the California 

 State Association, and also upheld Inspector Allen in the matter of 

 quarantining of all bees and queens from outside of the county on 

 account of brood disease. All queens and bees now shipped into 

 Ventura County must bear an inspector's certificate or they will 

 be destroyed when they arrive. Good work, boys. 



The World is Small After All. 



This month there reached my desk the second copy of the 

 South African Bcc-Kccpcrs' Journal. I picked it up. glanced through 

 its pages, and the thought struck me at once that we are not living- 

 in such a large world after all. I have often thought of Africa 

 as a place w^here we send missionaries and where Dr. Livingston 

 became lost among the savages, but upon looking at the full page 

 cut on page 56, I found men and women wearing the same dress 

 and with just as intelligent looks as any people I had seen in 

 America. 



Of course, this will show my African brothers that I know 

 very little about their country, but I am sure from the start the 

 journal has made, and with the Bee-Keepers' Association back of 

 it, it ought to have a very bright future. Here's success to you. 

 Brother Oettle. 



