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April, 1909. 



American "Bee Journal 



years of careful breeding that there is 

 :i steady gain, and I test the best strains 

 I can get beside my own. Do not think 

 that because you have a good breeding- 

 queen that is all you need, for 3^ou need 

 just as ivell-bved drones as queens. T 

 am more than convinced that you must 

 have them in order to get the best re- 

 sults. I do want a pure queen for 

 a breeder. I know that there are some 

 that claim that a hybrid is just as good, 

 but I claim that more lasting results 

 are secured with a pure queen, and the 

 young queens are much more even as 

 to honey-gatherers. I hope that the bee- 

 keepers will wake up to what they are 

 losing. 



There is not a bee-keeper who can 

 not improve his bees, and get more hon- 

 ey, by careful selecting and breeding. 

 I have done it, and others can. Do not 

 keep a poor queen if you know it. Get 

 her out of the yard as quickly as you 

 can. 



No. 3 is D. R. Hardy's apiary, in 

 1907. He is a firm believer in well- 

 bred bees, and is a breeder of the Carn- 

 iolian crosses, is a successful bee-keeper, 

 and is well known at our bee-conven- 

 tions. 



No. 4 shows a honey exhibit at the 

 Jefferson county fair, Watertown, N. Y., 

 put up by Messrs. Hardy. French, Sim- 

 mons, and Howe. 



How I do miss the American Bee- 

 Keeper! The February number of the 

 American Bee Journal is a hummer. 

 Geo. B. Howe. 



Jefferson Co.. N. Y. 



Indiana Bee-Disease Law 



Last month we mentioned the passage 

 of a law in Indiana in the interest of 

 bee-keepers. Not only for the benefit 

 of the bee-keepers of that State, but 

 that other States not having such need- 

 ed law, may see what Indiana has en- 

 acted, we publish the sections of inter- 

 est to bee-keepers, as follows : 



HOUSE BILL NO. 144. 



A Bill for an Act to amend sections 8, 

 9, and 10, of an act entitled, "An act to 

 provide for the appointment of a state en- 

 tomologist, defining his powers, prescribing his 

 duties, fixing his compensation, providing for 

 the inspection of nurseries, and to prevent 

 the dissemination of the San Jose scale and 

 other dangerously injurious insects and plant 

 diseases, defining the penalties for the viola- 

 tion of this act, making an appropriation 

 therefor, repealing all laws in conflict there- 

 with, and declaring an emergency," approved 

 March 9, 1907, and also adding sections there- 

 to to provide that the state entomologist shall 

 be State inspector of apiaries, prescribing his 

 duties and fixing his compensation as such in- 

 spector; providing for the appointment of 

 deputies and assistants to the state entomolo- 

 gisc and limiting their salaries; providing for 

 the filing of affidavits by parties affected by 

 the inspection clauses of this law, and de- 

 claring an emergency. 



Sec. 4. — The state entomologist shall be and 

 is hereby constituted State inspector of apiaries 

 and as such inspector it shall be his duty to 

 aid and assist in the development and protec- 

 tion of the bee and honey industry in this 

 State, and to adopt and carry out proper meas- 

 ures for the prevention and suppression of 

 contagious and infectious diseases among 

 bees. 



Sec. 5. — The state entomologist shall have 

 full power and authority at his discretion to 

 visit and examine any apiaries for the pur- 

 pose of discovering whether or not any dis- 

 ease may exist among bees in any part of the 

 State. When notified of the existence or the 

 probable existence of foul brood or other con- 



tagious or infectious diseases among bees in 

 any apiary in the State, he shall visit and 

 examine said apiary so reported and all other 

 apiaries in the same neighborhood tliat he 

 may be informed about by diligent inquiry or 

 otherwise, for the purpose of determining 

 whether such disease exisits or not. When- 

 ever he shall be satisfied of the existence of 

 foul brood or other diseases in their malig- 

 nant form in any apiary it shall be his duty 

 to order all colonies so affected, together with 

 all hives occupied by them, and the contents 

 of those hives and all tainted appurtenances 

 that cannot be disinfected and that might 

 cause the further spread of the disease, to be 

 immediately destroyed by fire under his per- 

 sonal supervision and care, but where said 

 entomologist, who shall be the sole judge 

 thereof, shall be satisfied that the disease 

 exists in incipient stages, and is being or 

 may be treated successfvdly, and he shall have 

 reason to believe that it may be entirely cured, 

 then he may in his discretion omit to de- 

 stroy or order the destruction of the colonies 

 or hives in which the disease exists. 



who is aware of the existence of foul brood 

 or other infectious or contagious diseases 

 either in his own apiary or elsewhere, shall 

 immediately notify the State entomologist of 

 tlic existence of such disease, and in default 

 ot so doing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction shall be fined in any 

 sum not more than ten dollars ($10). 



Sec. 11. — Apiaries within the meaning of 

 thi^^, act shall be any place where one or more 

 hives, swarms, or colonies of bees shall be 

 kept. 



Sec. 12. — Whenever as the result of an offi- 

 cial inspection the State entomologist or any 

 of his deputies shall order the treatment or 

 removal of any trees, vines, shrubs or plants, 

 or shall order the treatment or destruction of 

 any bees, have, frames or other appurtenances 

 connected with apiculture he may require that 

 an affidavit shall be filed by the owner or per- 

 son in charge of the property so affected in 

 which it shall be stated that the treatment 

 ordered has been carried out to the best of 

 the affiant's ability, and that the work had 

 been effective for the purpose prescribed. Any 







Apiary of D. R. Hardy. Jeffkrson Co.. N. Y. 



Wiienever the disease shall be found to 

 exist and the treatment for the same shall 

 be ordered by the State entomologist, he 

 shall give to the owner or person in charge 

 of the apiary instructions as to the manner 

 of treatment of such apiary, and to see that 

 such treatment be carried out, and should 

 the said owner or person in charge of said 

 apiary refuse or fail to carry out the said 

 instructions to the complete eradication of the 

 disease, or the satisfaction of the State en- 

 tomologist, he shall destroy or order to be 

 destroyed all said diseased colonies by fire as 

 provided for in case of disease in its ma- 

 lignant form. 



Sec. 6. — The State entomologist shall have 

 full power in his discretion to order any 

 owner, possessor, or person having charge of 

 bees dwelling in box-hives (having mere boxes 

 without frames), in apiaries where disease ex- 

 ists, to transfer such bees to movable-frame 

 hives, within a specified time, and in default 

 of such transfer he shall order destroyed or 

 destroy all such box-hives and the bees dwell- 

 ing therein. 



Sec. 7. — The said State entomologist shall 

 have the right to enter for the performance 

 of his duties upon any premises where bees 

 are kept. 



Sec. S. — The State entomologist shall in- 

 clude in his annual report to the governor 

 such information in regard to the work of 

 the apiary inspector and bee-culture as he 

 may deem of importance to the State. 



Sec 9. — Any owner of any apiary where 

 disease exists or any person or persons, com- 

 pany or corporation who shall ^ell, barter or 

 give away, or import into this State any colo- 

 nies or colony of bees or appliances infected 

 with disease, or expose to the danger of other 

 bees any comb, honey, bee-hives or appliances 

 or things infected with the disease, or conceal 

 the fact that disease exists among his or their 

 bees wiien disease is known to exist, or re- 

 fuses to allow the Sta.te entomologist to in- 

 spect or treat any apiary or appliances, or 

 shall resist, hinder or impede him in any way 

 in the discharge of his duties under the pro- 

 visions of this act, shall be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor and upon conviction shall be fined 

 iu any sum not lesn than ten dollars ($10) 

 nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25). 



Sec. 10. — Every bee-keeper or other person 



person making such affidavit, knowing the 

 same to be false, shall be guilty of perjury. 



Sec. 13. — The State 'entomologist shall have 

 the authority to employ such deputies and as- 

 sistants as the work of the office may require. 

 They shall hold office for such periods of time 

 as the work of the office may require and in 

 their appointment the State entomologist shall 

 consider only their fitness for the work which 

 they will undertake, disregarding entirely all 

 political affiliations. The salary of no deputy 

 shall exceed twelve hundred dollars ($1300) 

 per annum. The inspector of apiaries shall 

 receive for his services the sum of one thou- 

 sand dollars $1000) per annum in addition to 

 his salary as State entomologist. Such com- 

 pensation to be paid out of the general ap- 

 propriation for this act. 



Sec. 14. — \\'hereas an emergency exists for 

 the immediate taking effect of this act it shall 

 be in full force and effect from and after its 

 passage. 



We think that Indiana bee-keepers 

 are to be congratulated. 



Mr. Walter S. Pouder, of Indianapo- 

 lis, who did valiant service in securing 

 the passage of the foregoing law on 

 March 5, 1909, wrote thus on March 6: 



"In my opinion we have the very best bee- 

 law in the Union. The office of our Ento- 

 mologist will be a permanent headquarters. 

 Some may think that the method of disposing 

 of diseased bees could be improved, but we 

 expect to have an inspector who will use good 

 judgment in this part of the work." 



Honey - Sweetened Tea tor the 

 Memory. 



"For a bad memory," says The Fed- 

 eral Independent Bee-Keeper, "drink 

 sage tea, sweetened with honey." Now 

 what can we drink "sweetened with 

 honey" to make us forget disagreeable 

 things? 



