THE AUSTRALIAN BEEKEEPERS’ JOURNAL. 
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out this suggestion, which came from a person 
who knew what he was writing about. A 
number of people at Williamstown had told 
him that if the Bill were passed as it stood 
they would suffer considerable injury. They 
made a fair revenue from the industry, and if 
the disease were so detrimental they surely 
would only be too anxious to have it sup- 
pressed. 
The Hon. R. A. Tarlton preferred the popu- 
lar to the scientific name. He was distinctly 
of opinion that the effect of the Bill would lie 
to protect the small as well as the large bee- 
keepers. As to getting scientific hives, he 
believed that they could lie obtained for 5s 
each, so that no injustice, but a great advan- 
tage would be the result to the poorer people 
who kept bees. 
The Hon. Dr. Campbell did not think the 
Latin name ought to be substituted for foul 
brood. The latter was a disease readily defin- 
able, but it would be a very difficult and 
expensive matter to recognise Bacillus alvei 
and if that name were adopted the Act would 
become inoperative. 
The motion having been declared negatived, 
the Hon. H. E. Bright called for a division, 
which resulted as follows : — 
Ayes, 5 —The Hons. J. H. Angas, J. 
Bosworth, A. B. Murray, IV. Wadham, and H. 
E. Bright ( teller). 
Noes, 17 — The Chief Secretary, and the 
Hons. R. C. Baker, W. C. Buik, A. Campbell, 
W. Copley, J. Dunn, A. Hay, D Murray, J. 
Pickering, J. Rankine. M. Salorn, H. Scott, W. 
K. Simms, A. M. Simpson, S. Tomkiuson, W. 
A. E. West-Erskine, and It. A. Tarlton 
(teller) . 
Majority of 12 for the Noes. 
The bill was then read a third time and passed. 
The objections raised to the Bill are based 
on the supposition that it is a newfangled 
idea about foul brood, emanating from new- 
fangled beekeepers who use frame hives, and 
that legislation in this direction will press 
heavily on the poor and ignorant beekeeper 
No doubt it will press heavily if he have foul 
brood, but the disease will be the hardest 
master both for him and his neighbors if un- 
checked. It is just this class of beekeeper 
that frustrates all efforts to eradicate the dis- 
ease, and such people have no more right to 
poison a whole district with foul-broody bees 
than they have to spread scab among their 
neighbors’ (locks, or diphtheria, or smnll-pox 
among their children. If they are ignorant of 
the existence of the disease, the mischief is 
equally great, and probably greater, and it 
becomes a social necessity that he should be 
enlightened and reminded of his responsibili- 
ties. We have given instances in these pages 
of people essaying to keep bees which have 
afterwards become diseased, leaving the rot- 
ting and putrid combs open and spread about 
to attract all the bees within flight range, and 
so distribute pestilence iu all directions. 
We are sure all who desire to see beekeeping 
flourish iu Australia will hail the enactments 
referred to as a step towards better beekeeping 
j times. 
Since our last issue we have seen numerous 
instances of converting perishing foul-broody 
stocks into healthy and prosperous colonies by 
[ the very simple process of removing them from 
their old hive and comb into a new hive with 
starters only, and feeding freely if honey is 
n -t coming! n plentifully. On November 15 
we took 28 splendid sections from a hive that 
in September looked hopeless with the disease. 
The bees were taken from the hive and combs 
and put into a clean hive with starters, fed on 
plain syrup till honey came in freely. They 
progressed wonderfully, sent off a grand 
swarm about the 12th November, and are now 
the best stock in our apiary. Some bees in 
boxes on the shores of Port Phillip Bay had 
the disease badly in August. We advised 
driving them into clean boxes, a.nd burning 
the old ones. This course was followed with 
four lots, and these got well filled up, and 
have swarmed some twice, others thrice, 
showing the disease has vanished so far. The 
other affected stocks, however, dwindled away 
hopelessly, and were wisely destroyed by the 
owner lest the four now healthy colonies 
should contract the disease afresh. 
♦ 
THE HONEY MARKET. 
Thebe is not much demand for extracted or 
run honey just now, and prices offered are 
lower than they are likely to be later in the 
season. 'The price varies from 2Ad. to 6d or 
7d. per lb., according to quality and kind of 
parcels. Clear extracted honey, in from one 
to four pound parcels, neatly got up in sealed 
tins or fancy bottles, command the highest 
figure. The market is injured by the presence 
of large parcels of bush honey, that has 
neither been selected or carefully run, and is 
j generally dirty, turbid, and coarse in flavor. 
Bush honey, if properly selected and packed, 
would command as good price as any. Early 
spring samples we have seen are often strong 
and acrid in flavor, owing to the presence of a 
large proportion gathered from the Cape 
weed or Cape marigold, as it is sometimes 
called ; and the flatweed, a yellow flower, 
something like dandelion, which is now- 
making all our pastures yellow in the early 
season. 
Honey gathered from ti-tree is dark and 
somewhat strong, with a slightly bitter taste, 
and although a good wholesome article doi s 
not attract, except in cases where its character 
is known and appreciated. 
Eucalyptus honey, especially from the box, 
red gum, and white gum are the favorites, 
and stand in the front rank with clover honey. 
Good samples, properly put up of all these 
kinds, command the highest prices quoted. 
