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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



The People of tlie State of Michigan enact: 



Section 1. The State board of agri- 

 culture is hereby authorized to estab- 

 lish apiary inspection, and to appoint a 

 competent person as chief inspector, 

 who shall under the direction of said 

 Itoard, have charge of the inspection of 

 apiaries as hereinafter provided. Said 

 inspector shall investigate or cause t:* 

 be investigated outbreaks of bee dis- 

 eases, and cause suitable measures to 

 be taken for their eradication or con- 

 trol. 



^Ec. 2. The inspector shall, when 

 notified in writing by the owner of an 

 apiary, or by any three disinterested 

 taxpayers, examine all reported apiaries 

 and others in the same locality not re- 

 ported, and ascertain whether or not 

 the diseases known as American foul 

 brood or European foul brood or any 

 other disease which is infectious or 

 contagious in its nature, and injurious 

 to honey bees in their egg, larval, pupal 

 or adult stages, exists in such apiaries ; 

 and if satisfied of the existence of any 

 such disease, shall give to the owners 

 or care takers of the diseased apiaries, 

 full instruction as to how to treat such 

 cases: Provided, That if the colonies 

 in question seem to be in such bad con- 

 dition that treatment is not likely to be 

 successful, or if it seems to the inspec- 

 tor that the chances of obtaining a cure 

 are remote, and of this the inspector 

 shall be the sole judge, it shall be the 

 duty of the inspector to destroy said 

 colonies by fire or burying or by both, 

 without recompense to the owner, les- 

 see or caretaker of said bees. He may 

 inspect apiaries in localities not report- 

 ed, in endeavoring to locate new areas 

 of infection. 



Sec. 3. The inspector shall, if pos- 

 sible, visit all diseased apiaries a sec- 

 ond time after ten days from the time 

 of the first visit, unless he has reason- 

 able assurance that his directions have 

 been carried out, and if need be, with 

 out recompense to the owner, lessee, or 

 agent thereof, he may destroy, in such 

 manner as to avoid as far as possible, 

 spreading the disease, all colonies of 

 bees that he may find still diseased, to- 

 gether with the hives and all honey and 

 appliances which may spread disease : 

 Provided, That when the finding of the 

 disease occurs in its incipient stages 

 very late in the season after the honey 

 flow has ceased, and after it is too late 



to successfully treat and feed, the 

 treatment may be deferred until the 

 following spring if such delay is neces- 

 sary in the judgment of the inspector. 



Sec. 4. If the owner, possessor, 

 agent or lessee of an apiary, honey or 

 appliances, wherein disease is known to 

 the owner, possessor, agent or lessee to 

 exist, shall sell, barter or give away or 

 remove from the premises, without the 

 consent of the inspector, any bees from 

 diseased colonies, be they queens, 

 drones, or workers, honey or appli- 

 ances, or expose other bees to the dan- 

 ger of such disease, said owner shall, 

 on conviction thereof be punished by a 

 fine of not less than ten dollars nor 

 more than fifty dollars and costs of 

 prosecution : Provided, That bees may 

 be shipped without honey or feed con- 

 taining honey, also provided that honey 

 may be sold in tight containers for 

 commercial purposes, other than with 

 bees or as food for bees. 



Sec. 5. For the enforcment of the 

 provisions of this act, the State inspec- 

 tor of apiaries shall have access, in- 

 gress, and egress to and from all 

 apiaries or places where bees, combs, 

 or apiary appliances are kept ; and any 

 person or persons who shall resist, im- 

 pede or hinder in any way, the inspec- 

 tor of apiaries, in the discharge of his 

 duties under the provisions of this act, 

 shall on conviction thereof, be punished 

 by a fine not less than ten dollars nor 

 more than fifty dollars and costs of 

 prosecution, or be imprisoned in the 

 count}^ jail not less than ten days nor 

 more than thirty days, or both at the 

 discretion of the judge. 



Sec. 6. After inspecting infected bees 

 or fixtures, or handling diseased bees, 

 the inspector shall, before leaving the 

 premises or proceeding to any other 

 apiary, take such measures as shall pre- 

 vent the spread of the disease by in- 

 fected material adhering to his person 

 or clothing or to any tools or appli- 

 ances used by him, which have come 

 in contact with infected materials. 



Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of any 

 person in the State of Michigan, en- 

 gaged in the rearing of queen bees for 

 sale, to use honey in the making of 

 candy for use in mailing cages, which 

 has been boiled for at least thirty min- 

 utes, unless candy which contains no 

 honey at all is used. Any such person 



