REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL INSPECTORS 231 
attention. In such cases the bees will be left to menace the 
surrounding apiaries until such time as they shall finally suc- 
cumb to the disease. 
Requirements for Successful Inspectors—No man should 
be intrusted with police powers who does not have proper regard 
for the rights and feelings of those with whom he is required to 
deal. He should be able to meet a trying situation and to 
reason with those who are disposed to resent his visit. For- 
tunately most bee-keepers are coming to be very anxious to learn 
of the presence of disease on its first appearance in their apiaries 
and will communicate with the inspector at the first suspicious 
sign. In such cases the inspector will be welcomed and infor- 
mation will be gratefully received. Jlowever, when disease is 
found it becomes necessary to examine other nearby apiaries 
to ascertain to what extent the disease has been spread. Many 
of the bees will be found in boxes, kegs, or hives where the combs 
are built crosswise for lack of foundation. The conditions are 
such as try the patience of a mild-tempered man, and to ascer- 
tain the condition of the colony and leave the owner in good 
temper requires the exercise of much skill and diplomacy. 
If the inspector is able to give the owner of such bees en- 
couragement and advice about proper care of bees without 
offence, his visit has been of value aside from the possible check 
of the spread of disease. The time bids fair to come very 
shortly when the inspector’s field shall be broadened until his 
duty will be to instruct in the general management of the apiary 
as much as to find disease. The great difficulty with present laws 
lies in the fact that no man who is not a well-informed bee 
keeper is competent to deal with disease. The inspector’s in- 
structions regarding disease will be imperfectly understood by 
the box hive bee-keeper, nine times out of ten, and if he under- 
takes to treat his colonies himself he will destroy them or scatter 
the disease instead of checking it. It thus becomes necessary 
for the inspector to personally supervise the treatment or destroy 
the diseased colony. A diseased colony in anything but a modern 
