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Legislation. 



In the TTnited States, six States liave laws for the suppression of foul 

 brood among bees. These are 'New York, Wisconsin, Michigan, Utah, Col- 

 orado and California. In Canadi the Province of Ontario has enacted a foul- 

 brood law. In Europe Mecklenburg also has a law. 



These statutes difler a good deal from one another, and some of them are 

 so drafted that evasion of the law is easy. The best are probably those of 

 Wisconsin and Ontario, and the principal points in these acts are as follows : 



1. The appointment of an inspector. 



2. The inspection of all apiaries reported as diseased, and the duty of 



the iDspector, if satisfied that the disease is present, to give full in- 

 structions as to treatment. 



3. The enactment requiring the inspector, who is the sole judge, to make 



a second visit to all diseased apiaries, and, if need be, burn all col- 

 onies and combs that he may find uncured. 



4. Various penalties (fines, and, in default, imprisonment) for — 



(a) Selling or giving away diseased colonies or infected ap- 

 pliances. 

 (6) Selling bees after treatment, or exposing infected appliances, 

 (c) Obstructing the inspector. 



5. Persons who are aware of the disease either in their own apiary or 



elsewhere are to notfiy at once the proper authorities, and in de- 

 fault of 80 doing shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine and costs. 



6. The inspector of apiaries to make an annual report, which shall in- 



clude a statement of the number of colonies destroyed by his order, 

 the localities where found, and the amount paid to him for his ser- 

 vices. 



Beferkncbs. 



1. Aristotle '. Historia Animalum, Book ix, oh. 27. 



2. Columella, L J.M. : De Re Rustics, Book ix, ch. 13. 



3. Pliny: Natural History, Book xi, ch. 19, A.D, 79. 



4. Schirach: Histoire des Abeilles, ch. iii, p. 56, La Haye 1771. 



5. Cowan : Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, Vol. vi. Part 



iv, 1895. 



6. Tessier: LEnoyclopfedie M^thodique, Abeille, p. 32, 1765. 



7. Bucket : Culture des Abeilles, p. 315, Vevey, 1771. 



8. Bella Rocca: Traits Oomplet sur les Abeilles, Vol. iii, p. 261, 



Paris, 1790 



9. Wildman: Treatise on the Management of Bees, London, 1796. 



10. Keys: Ancient Bee-masters Farewell, London, 1796. 



11. Needham : Rhein: Brussels Memoirs, Vol. ii, 1780. 



12. Reaumur: Memoirs pour Servir a I'Histoire Naturelle des Inseotes, 

 T.V., p. 1734. 



13. Bevan: The Honey Bee, London, 1827. 



14. Leuchhart: Bienen Zeitung, Eichstadt, 1860, p. 232. 



15. Molitor Muhlfeld: Bienen Zeitung, Eichstadt, 1868, p. 95. 



16. Preuss: Bienen Zeitung, 1868, p. 225. 



17. Vogel, Pollmann, Leuckhart, Geilen: Bienen Zeitung, Nos. 21 

 and 22 



18. M. Muhlfeld: Bienen Zeitung, 1869, No. 3. 



19. Lamhrecht : Hallier: Bienen Zeitung, 1870, No. 2. 



