200 LAWS AGAINST FOUL BEOOD. 



or contagious disease to remove said bees to a new location without first giving 

 ten days' notice to the county inspector of apiaries, stating when and where he 

 intends moving said bees. Any person violating the provisions of this section 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. T. Any person or persons whose apiary is infected with foul brood or 

 other infectious or contagious disease and who sells or offers for sale from such 

 infected apiary any bees, hives, bee fixtures, or appurtenances, or who shall 

 expose in his bee yard or elsewhere any infected comb honey, beeswax, or 

 other infected thing, or who conceals the fact that his apiary is so infected 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec 8. Any person or persons who shall resist, impede, or hinder in any way 

 the inspector of apiaries in the discharge of his duties under the provisions of 

 this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 9. An emergency exists, and this act shall take effect immediately. 



WISCOKSIX. 



Wisconsin Statutes, 1903, Volume 1, Chapter 188. 



Section 1494, f. hispection of apiaries — Inspection, appointments duties, 

 compensation. The governor may appoint for a term of two years a State in- 

 spector of apiaries. Said inspector shall, when notified of existence of disease 

 known as foul brood among apiaries, examine all such as are so reported and 

 all others in the same locality and ascertain whether or not such disease exists, 

 and, if satisfied of its existence, shall give the owner or person who has care of 

 such apiaries full instructions as to the manner of treating them. 



Within a reasonable time after making such examination the inspector shall 

 make another examination thereof, and if the condition of any of them is such 

 as in his judgment renders it necessary he may burn all the colonies of bees and 

 all the comb necessary to prevent the spread of the disease. 



Such inspector shall, before such burning, give the notice provided for in 

 and otherwise proceed pursuant to the provisions of section 1492, b. The in- 

 spector shall make at the close of each calendar year a report to the governor, 

 stating the number of apiaries visited, the number of those diseased and treated, 

 the number of colonies of bees destroyed, and of the expenses incurred in the 

 'performance of his duties. Said inspector shall receive four dollars for each 

 day actually and necessarily spent in the performance of his duties and be re- 

 imbursed the money expended hj him in defraying expenses : Provided, That 

 the total expenditure for such purpose shall not exceed seven hundred dollars 

 per year. 



Approved May 11, 1903. 



Wisconsin Statutes, 1903, Volume 2, Chapter 187, 



Section 4605, a. Sale of a diseased apiary, etc. Any owner of a diseased 

 apiary, of honey made or taken from such an apiary, or appliances taken from 

 such an apiary, who shall sell, barter, or give away any such apiary, honey, or 

 appliances, or bees from such an apiary, expose other bees to the danger of 

 contracting such disease, or refuse to allow the inspector of apiaries to inspect 

 such apiary, honey, or appliances shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor 

 more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than 

 one month nor more than two months. (Section 4, chapter 150, 1897.) 



