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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept 18, 1902. 



tious or contagious disease peculiar to bees or honey, or to 

 keep or have in possession anj- bee-hive or other receptacle 

 in which any foul brood, diseased bees, or infected honey is 

 known to have been kept. 



(6) Destruction. Penalty. — Any honev-bees, brood comb, 

 or honey owned or kept or found in this'State, known to be 

 afifected or infected ; and any bee-hive or other receptacle 

 in which any bees, brood-comb, or honey shall have been 

 kept, known to be, or have been infected as set out in sec- 

 tion (a), shall be destroyed immediately and completely by 

 burning. Any person who shall be the owner, possessor, or 

 care-taker thereof, who refuses or neglects immediately to 

 cause the same to be destroyed, as provided herein, shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction there- 

 of shall pay a fine of not less than ten nor more than one 

 hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in jail not more than 30 

 days for each offense. 



(el Inspection. — Every person owning or keeping honev- 

 bees in this State shall cause the same to be inspected at 

 his own expense, at least once a year in infected districts. 

 This includes each and every brood or colony of bees, brood- 

 comb, and honey in his possession or under his control, and 

 the procuring of a certificate of such inspection showing 

 the true condition of each and every one of the above-named 

 articles in his possession as to the existence of foul brood 

 or other infectious or contagious disease, in duplicate, one 

 of which duplicates shall be left with such person, and the 

 other filed in the county clerk's office, where such bees or 

 honey or brood-comb is kept. 



(d) Treatment. — If. upon inspection, the disease of foul 

 brood or other infection or contagion shall be found to exist, 

 and the inspector shall be of the opinion that, by proper 

 treatment, such diseases, contagion, or infection may be 

 removed, he shall so certify officially in his certificate of in- 

 spection, and the owner or keeper of such bees shall be en- 

 titled to keep such bees for the period of six months for 

 treatment ; and if not eradicated at the expiration of such 

 time, such bees shall be destoyed as hereinbefore described ; 

 and any person having in possession any brood-comb, bee- 

 hive, honey, or apparatus used in connection with bee-cul- 

 ture, found in like manner to be infected, such person shall 

 be allowed 30 days in which to disinfect the same; and if 

 said disinfection shall not have been complete at the expira- 

 tion of 30 days, such brood-comb, bee hive, honey, or appa- 

 ratus shall be burned as hereinbefore provided. 



(i?) Penalty. — Every person neglecting or refusing to 

 cause all such bees to be duly inspected as provided herein, 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall pay a 

 fine of not less than ten or more the one hundred dollars for 

 each offense upon conviction thereof. 



(/) Inspector, /"aj/.— Upon the application of the 

 Nebraska Bee-Keepers' Association, or other person or per- 

 sons interested in bee-culture residing in any county of the 

 State, the Governor may appoint a suitable resident inspec- 

 tor of bees and honey of said county, whose sworn duty it is 

 to inspect all bees, brood-comb, and honej', within said 

 county, when requested, and shall receive two dollars per 

 day for his services, to be paid by the owner, agent or lessee 

 in whose possession such bees, brood-comb, or honey may 

 be when inspected. Such inspector shall make certificates 

 in duplicate as provided in section (c). — Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture. 



(Continued next week.) 



The Buffalo Convention Report is issued in pamphlet 

 form, size 6x8^4 inches, 80 pages and cover. Besides a full 

 report of the proceedings of the 32d convention of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association, held in Buffalo, N. Y., 

 Sept. 10, 11 and 12, 1901, it contains fine halftone portraits 

 of all the officers and directors of the Association ; also the 

 Constitution, a list of the membership up to the end of 

 1901, and the two latest bee-songs—" The Hum of the Bees 

 in the Apple-Tree Bloom " and " Buckwheat Cakes and 

 Honey." We believe it is the finest ever gotten out for the 

 Association. Of course, all members of the Association 

 receive a copy free, but there are thousands of our readers 

 who are not yet members, but whoshould have this valuable 

 Report. Better send for a copy, if you have not yet re- 

 ceived one. Price, postpaid, 25 cents, or with the American 

 Bee Journal one year— both for $1.10. Send all orders to 

 the office of the American Bee Journal. Better order soon, 

 before all are gone. 



i * The Afterthought. * 



The *'Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable Glasses. 

 By E. E. HASTY, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, O. 



CHARLES DADANT. 



From the title page of No. 30 a grave, wise face looks a 

 good-by to us. Honor, and a place in our memories, to Mr. 

 Charles Dadant. I understand that more people in France 

 than in America realize his weight and worth. This is on 

 account of the extent of his writings in French. Not long 

 since apiculture was called a new craft, and its eminent 

 men were mostly living. How soon it will be that most of 

 those who first dignified apiculture as a vocation, and a 

 semi-science as well as a vocation, will be mostly among 

 the dead ? 



WHY SO MANY BACHELOR BEE-KEEPERS. 



Worry, worr.v ; 

 Frowns aad Hurry ; 



And it's the old bachelors " Iowa " is troubled about 

 when he (or she — horrid thought !) counts the noses of bee- 

 dom ! Half mankind get married when good sense would 

 bid them not to. (There, now, let's see you deny that.) 

 And the average sense of mankind is low ; and the average 

 sense of bee-keepers is supposed to be quite a bit higher. 

 Or, if you don't like that, say that a man so full of ideas as 

 the bee-man, must needs long for a mate of his own kind 

 (like Adam, when the critters were paraded before him), and 

 lady bee-keepers, both present and potential, are still quite 

 insufficient in number to go round. Page 488. 



WHY BEES VISIT PIG-STYS, ETC. 



Anent the other " Iowa," page 489, I don't believe that 

 bees go to privies and pig-stys for salt — that is, salt is not 

 the main thing. All higher life on this planet is a life- 

 and-death struggle with microbes. The excreta of all 

 higher animals abound in antiseptics, which the proper in- 

 ternal organs have made and poured out to keep down 

 microbe multiplication within. Much of this anti-microbe 

 matter is not neutralized, and is capable of being used 

 again. Bees seem to think they need all they can secrete 

 and all they can gather, too. Salt is a mild antiseptic, and 

 comes all in the same line ; but you may salt never so 

 wisely the water you offer them at the apiary, and they will 

 still prefer their chosen watering-place where cattle stamp 

 around. 



MAXIMUM AGE OF QUEENS. 



Ever since defending Virgil's seven-year age for bees, 

 I have felt specially interested in the maximum age of 

 queens. On page 494 we find that Edwin Bevins has a 

 queen that has done service four whole years and two frac- 

 tional years, six in all. If she should commence on next 

 season she would be in a measure a seven-year queen. 



GRAVENHORST'S SWARM-PREVENTION. 



I think that to be sure of the Gravenhorst method of 

 swarm-prevention you will have to get the bees to rear 

 themselves a young queen a little before the time of regular 

 sivariniug. If you should delay until the midst of the 

 swarming season I should incline to warrant you that the 

 queen that began laying in that hive would be queen No. 

 2 — queen of a depleted colony. Page 499. 



QUEENS WITH AFTER SWARMS. 



So Doolittle has counted 15 queens with the last after- 

 swarm of a series. Till some one else counts more, let's 

 call that the record. Page 501. 



DR. PEIRO AND MULHERRV-TREES. 



And so Dr. Peiro. when he gets ready, atid feels just 

 like it, is going to make some of us presents of young mul- 

 berry trees. I'm going to try to look real pretty. Hope my 

 duties won't require me to give him anything in the nature 

 of a switching until after my tree arrives. Or is this just 

 the rogue's crafty plan to keep his jacket untanned for 

 about five years ? 



TOOLS FOR HOLDING QUEENS FOR CLIPPING. 



The little tool which is shown on page .526, seems to be 

 an excellent invention — that is, so far as can appear with- 



