BEE KEEPING IN RHODE ISLAND. 



hold. Under the existing law, copied in full below, for the control 

 of bee diseases, an inspector is appointed to aid bee keepers in the 

 eradication of the diseases if found among their bees or bees in their 

 vicinity, and to give such suggestions as he may deem advisable. 



An Act Providing for the Inspection of Apiaries and the Sup- 

 pression OF Contagious Diseases Among Bees. 



It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: 



Section 1. The state board of agriculture is hereby authorized 

 to appoint some qualified person to be state inspector of apiaries, 

 and he is empowered to appoint one or more assistants as needed, who 

 shall carry on the work under his supervision. 



Sec. 2. The inspector or his assistant shall at his option or when 

 notified in writing by the owner of an apiary, or by any three dis- 

 interested taxpayers, examine all reported apiaries, and all others 

 in the same locaUty not reported, and ascertain whether or not the 

 diseases known as American foul brood or European foul brood, or 

 any other disease which is infectious or contagious in its nature, and 

 injurious to honey bees in their egg, larval, pupal, or adult stage, 

 exists in such apiaries; and if satisfied of the existence of any such 

 diseases he shall give the owners or care-takers of the diseased 

 apiaries full instructions how to treat such cases, as, in the inspector's 

 judgment, seem best. 



Sec. 3. The inspector or his assistant shall visit all diseased 

 apiaries a second time, after ten days, and, if need be, burn all 

 colonies of bees that he may find not cured of such disease, and all 

 honey and appliances which would spread disease, without recom- 

 pense to the owner, lessee, or agent thereof. 



Sec. 4. If the owner of an apiary, honey, or apphances, wherein 

 disease exists, shall sell, barter, or give away, or move without the 

 consent of the inspector any diseased bees (be they queens or workers) 

 colonies, honey, or appliances, or expose other bees to the danger of 

 such disease, or fail to notify the inspector of the existence of such 



