34 Department Circular 287, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



certain races cannot be obtained in the United States, and tbe testing in tlie 

 United States of such races would be of value to the beekeeping industry, the 

 necessary importations will be made by the Department, provided that those 

 who make request therefor, and to whom the queens are to be distributed for 

 experimental and scientific purposes, will agree to report to the Department 

 twice annually on the merits of such races in comparison with races already 

 known in the United States. Applications for such importations must show 

 that it is impossible to secure such queens from commercial queen-breeders in 

 the United States. 



(2) Persons, institutions, and others, In urgent need of imported queenbees 

 for experimental and scientific purposes, may submit a statement of their needs 

 to the Department of Agriculture, giving the name and address of the foreign 

 queen-breeder from whom the queenbees are desired, and, if approved, the 

 Department will transmit an order to the breeder in the foreign country from 

 which such queenbees are desired. No orders for imported queenbees will be 

 placed by the Department of Agriculture with any but experienced and recog- 

 nized breeders of queenbees in foreign countries and evidence must be pre- 

 sented by the applicant that the foreign queen-breeder is qualified to rear good 

 queenbees and to mail them in a satisfactory condition. 



(3) In the event that importations are made and the queenbees die enroute, 

 the Department of Agriculture assumes no responsibility whatsoever, either in 

 the shipment of the queenbees from the foreign country to the Department of 

 Agriculture or in forwarding the queenbees to the person at whose request the 

 importation was made. Every care will be exercised so that the queenbees 

 may be safely mailed under the restrictions laid down in said Eegulation 4. 

 All shipments of queenbees will be made in accordance with the regulations of 

 the Post Office Department governing such shipments in domestic mails. 



(4) All persons receiving queenbees from foreign countries distributed by 

 the Department of Agriculture shall agree further to cooperate with the De- 

 partment in such additional examinations of the colonies containing the im- 

 ported queenbees or their offspring, as shall be deemed necessary to protect the 

 beekeeping interests of the United States from the introduction of diseases 

 dangerous to adult honeybees. In the event that any later examination of the 

 offspring of the Imported queenbees is deemed necessary by the Department, 

 tlie person receiving the imported queenbees shall agree to furnish the bees de- 

 sired promptly or to permit such examinations by a representative of the De- 

 partment as may be deemed necessary. Any person receiving such imported 

 queenbees from the Department of Agriculture shall further agree to notify the 

 Department immediately if any abnormal conditions are seen in the adult 

 honeybees in the colony headed by the imported queenbee, or in any other 

 colony in the same apiary, so as to permit immediate examinations of any ap- 

 parently abnormal adult honeybees. 



The foregoing special rules are hereby adopted and shall be in force until 

 further notice. 



C. W. PUGSL,BY, 



Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 

 June 19, 1923. 



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