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



Regulation 4. — On representation by any person to the Department of Agri- 

 culture that there is adequate necessity for the importation of adult honeybees 

 for experimental and scientific purposes, from any country other than those 

 determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be free of all diseases dangerous 

 to adult honeybees, the Department of Agriculture will undertake to import 

 such adult honeybees under the first proviso of the Act for the purpose in- 

 tended, when the Department shall determine that such importations can be 

 made without risk to the beekeeping industry of the country. 



(2) All shipments of adult honeybees made for experimental and scientific 

 purposes shall be addressed to the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C, and shall be subject to such examinations and holding In 

 quarantine as may be necessary to determine the freedom of the shipment 

 from diseases dangerous to adult honeybees. It is understood, as a further 

 precautionary measure, that the Department of Agriculture will destroy all the 

 worker bees accompanying such imported queenbees and will provide fresh 

 worker bees and a fresh mailing cage for each such shipment. Any such im- 

 portation made for experimental and scientific purposes which is found to be 

 infected with any disease dangerous to adult honeybees may be destroyed or 

 returned to the country of origin, at the option of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture and no shipment will be distributed until the Department of Agriculture 

 is convinced that the adult honeybees therein contained are free from all 

 dangerous diseases. Any persons receiving adult honeybees distributed by the 

 Department of Agriculture shall agree to the re-examination of the shipment 

 from time to time, at the option of the Department, and shall relinquish the 

 shipment and any increase therein to the Department of Agriculture for de- 

 struction or safeguarding, should any diseases dangerous to adult honeybees 

 at any time develop in connection with it. 



Regulation 5. — In accordance with the second proviso of the Act. adult 

 honeybees may be imported into the United States from countries in which 

 the Secretary of Agriculture shall have determined that there exists no disease 

 dangerous to adult honeybees. 



(a) The Secretary of Agriculture, having determined that no disease dan- 

 gerous to adult honeybees exists in the Dominion of Canada and being advised 

 that, under order of the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Dominion of 

 Canada, dated April 22, 1922, the importation of bees, used and second-hand 

 hives, and raw hive goods and products, except honey and wax, from the conti- 

 nent of Europe into the Dominion of Canada, is prohibited, does hereby author- 

 ize that adult honeybees, unrestricted as to the definition thereof contained in 

 Regulation 2 hereof, may be imported from the Dominion of Canada into the 

 United States or any of its Territories or Districts free from any restriction 

 whatsoever provided in these regulations, until otherwise ordered. 



(b) Importations under the second proviso of the Act, from any country 

 other than the Dominion of Canada, shall be conditioned on the determina- 

 tion by the Secretary of Agriculture that, as a result of adequate scientific 

 investigations, no diseases dangerous to adult honeybees exist in the country 

 in question and that adequate precautions have been taken by such country 

 to prevent the importation of adult honeybees from countries where such dan- 

 gerous diseases exist. 



Regulation 6. — Nothing in these regulations shall interfere with the regu- 

 lations of any state pertaining to the control of the diseases of bees, either 

 of the adult stage or of the brood, and a removal of the restrictions of this 

 as applied to any country shall not be construed as granting permission for 

 importations prohibited by the laws of the state into which shipment is 

 contemplated. 



Henry C. Wallace, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 

 A. W. Mellon, 

 Secretary of the Treasury. 



