1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



175 



Toward the end of June he notified me that he could not come. 

 I was not surprised at this, because I knew he was driven 

 from pillar to post with calls here, there and everywhere. So 

 I went to work myself and made, as I thought, thorough work 

 of it, reducing my colonies to 10, boiling all the old honey, 

 melting down all the old combs, and feeding all the colonies 

 that were short of stores. I made considerable sacrifice to 

 get rid of the pest, and my bees went into winter quarters, as 

 I thought, clear of it. 



The next spring (1894), I asked the President of the 

 Association to authorize Mr. McEvoy to call and look at my 

 apiary, and see if he could give me a clean bill of health. I 

 neither saw nor heard anything of him until July 25, 1894, 

 on which day I received the following note from Dr. Mills, 

 President of the Ontario Agricultural College : 



"My Dear Sir: — I regret very much to have to inform 

 you that Mr. Wra. McEvoy, Foul Brood Inspector, has this 

 morning inspected the three hives of bees which you placed 

 on the College campus to assist in illustrating your lectures on 

 bee-keeping, and has formally notified me that they are dis- 

 eased with foul brood. I have therefore to request you to 

 have them removed from the grounds at once." 



It was late in the afternoon before I got this oCficial inti- 

 mation. Accompanying it was a private note informing me 

 that it was only one of the hives that was considered tainted, 

 and that Mr. McEvoy wanted to burn it on the spot, but the 

 President forbade his doing so, and told him he would have 

 them removed to my own apiary where he might deal with 

 them. On receiving these communications, I at once hastened 

 to the apiary to get my bee-veil, smoker, wire-cloth, etc., and 

 make preparations to remove the three hives of bees. On 

 reaching the apiary, what was my surprise to see a smoulder- 

 ing heap of ruins, and near by several clusters of bees cling- 

 ing to sticks and stalks, contemplating the burning ruins of 

 their homes. After removing my three hives from the College 

 grounds, I got an expert to examine the colony Mr. McEvoy 

 wanted to burn, and he could not find a speck of foul brood in 

 it. A very curious thing happened shortly afterward to this 

 colony. One morning, between eight o'clock and noon, that 

 particular hive was removed from its stand to a secluded spot 

 back of my house-apiary, pulled to pieces, three brood-frames 

 carried away, and the remaining frames, more or less full of 

 honey, piled iglepigledy on each other, and the bees clustering 

 as best they could between and upon them. The queen was 

 all right, so I fixed up the hive again, and took special pains 

 to prepare it for winter. If it survives until spring, we shall 

 see what we shall see. This was a very mysterious circum- 

 stance. I wonder if Mr. McEvoy can explain it. 



Now I have stated these facts in as fair and circumstantial 

 a manner as I can, because I wish to call the attention of bee- 

 keepers to the practical working of our Foul Brood Law. 

 Especially do I wish to call the attention of the legal lights 



of bee-keeping — such men as Hon. R. L. Taylor, Messrs. 

 J. E, Pond. G. W. Demaree, and others, to this piece of legis- 

 lation. I do not wish to say anything hard of Mr. McEvoy, 

 or to be unfair to hira in any way, though I think he pursued 

 a very high-handed course with me, and treated me very 

 unkindly, considering the friendly terms we had always been 

 on previously. Why did he not call on me? I had asked for 

 his visit of inspection, and was prepared to welcome him and 

 carry out his oEBcial orders. I have no doubt he thought he 

 was carrying out his functions according to law, but the law 

 reserves some rights to criminals even, and does not put 

 arbitrary power into the hands of such high and mighty 

 officials as inspectors. 



I have taken legal advice about this matter, not that I 

 intend to litigate about it, for I do not. But I am told by my 

 lawyer that the Act does not empower the Inspector to go on 

 to a bee-keeper's premises without the knowledge and consent 

 of the owner, and that it does not empower him to burn hives 

 of bees unless they are in a hopelessly foul-broody condition. 

 If they are curable he is bound to give them a chance to be 

 cured. Furthermore, the law does not put into the Inspector's- 

 hands any power of punishment. He cannot visit any official 

 wrath on an offender. If a bee-keeper can be shown to be 

 culpably and criminally negligent, the Inspector is to bring 

 him before a magistrate and have him fined in due course of 

 law. So that Mr. McEvoy is liable for trespass, for destroying 

 colonies that might have been cured, and for taking the lavy^ 

 into his own hands by usurping the place of the magistrate 

 whose alone it is to be " a terror to evil-doers and a praise ta 

 them that do well." 



But I wish particularly to ask the opinion of bee-keepers, 

 and especially the legal gentlemen among them, on the prin- 

 ciple underlying this kind of legislation. Is it a sound and 

 good one? I opposed our Foul Brood Act when it was first 

 mooted on various grounds. I have never suggested its adop- 

 tion by United States bee-keepers. I now submit my own 

 example of its practical working, that they may judge for 

 themselves. 



If Mr. McEvoy's interpretation of the Act is correct, and 

 he has the right to go onto my premises and burn up my 

 property at his discretion, without my having any appeal to 

 magistrate or witness, judge or jury, I propose to submit 

 quietly, and if I cannot get the law altered in a constitutional 

 way, I shall seriously consider whether I will quit keeping 

 bees, or emigrate to another country. I hope some of the 

 great lights of bee-keeping will drop some of the threadbare 

 subjects of which readers of the bee-papers are getting so 

 tired, and discuss this now live topic. I hope, too, that the 

 North American Bee-Keepers' Association will give this 

 subject a prominent place in their discussions at the next 

 meeting. If I am alive and well, I promise to be on hind and 

 to have something to say that will not be "dull as a sermon." 



Guelph, Ont., March 4. 



Honey & Beeswax Market Quotations. 



CHICAGO. III., Mar. 4.— The demand for 

 both comb and extracted honey the last two 

 weeks equaled any like period during the 

 present season, and our market is compara- 

 tively bare. We attribute this to the contin- 

 ued cold weatber. We advise any one holding 

 honey to ship now while there is good demand. 

 There is a great deal of Inquiry for California 

 extracted — more than usual We quote: 

 White comb, 14@15c. ; extracted. 5@7c. 



Beeswax. 26@28c. J. A. L. 



CHICAGO, III.. Mar. 7.— During the past 

 two weeks a good movement ha** been felt in 

 the market. Sales have been in small lots, 

 but quite frequent. We quote: White comb 

 of the highest grade, 14c.; off in color, 13® 

 IS'/sC; yellow. 10@llc ; dark, 7@9c, Ex- 

 tracted, 5H® 7c.— the higher price for white 

 in 60-lb. cans. 



Beeswax, 28@30c. E. A. B. & Co. 



CINCINNATI, C, ■Peb. 20.— Demand isquiet 

 for all kinds of honey. Best white comb 

 honey sells at 14@16c. in the jobbing way. 

 Extracted. 4®8c. 



Beeswax Is in good demand at 23@28c. for 

 good to choice yellow. C. F. M. & S. 



PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 13. — Comb 

 honey is very plenty and slow of sale at 12® 

 13c. Extracted in talr demand at 5@6!^c. 



Beeswax scarce at 30@31c. W. A. S. 



NE W YORK, N, Y., Feb. 20. -We are gradu- 

 ally workiog down our stock of comb honey, 

 and the indications are that we will succeed 



in disposing of all of the white honey and pos- 

 sibly allot the dark during the spring, at fol- 

 lowing quotations; Fancy white, l-lbs., 12c.: 

 fair, 10c. : buckwheat, 8@9c. The market is 

 well supplied with extracted honey. Demand 

 is fair for choice grades, while common stock 

 is neglected. We quote: White clover and 

 basswood, oV4@6c.; buckwheat. 5@5V4c ; 

 Southern. 45@55c. per gallon, according to 

 quality. Beeswax Arm and in good demand 

 at30®31c. H.B. &S. 



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