. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feh. 19, 1920. THE BEITISH BEE JOUENAL. 85. Conference of Bee-Keepers re Legislation. We are enabled by tli© iiermission of the Ministry of Agriculture to publisli the re- port of the above as follows: — Eeport of proceedings of a conference, convened by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, of bee-keepers and Asso- ciations interested on the subject of proposed legislation for the control of bee diseases, held on Friday, February 6, 1920, at 3 , at the Surveyors' Institution, Great George Street, Westminster, Lon- don, Profe
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feh. 19, 1920. THE BEITISH BEE JOUENAL. 85. Conference of Bee-Keepers re Legislation. We are enabled by tli© iiermission of the Ministry of Agriculture to publisli the re- port of the above as follows: — Eeport of proceedings of a conference, convened by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, of bee-keepers and Asso- ciations interested on the subject of proposed legislation for the control of bee diseases, held on Friday, February 6, 1920, at 3 , at the Surveyors' Institution, Great George Street, Westminster, Lon- don, Professor Frederick Keeble, , , , , occupied the chair, and, opening the meeting, said :—Ladies and Gentlemen,—Both the Minister and Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen are deeply inte- rested in the subject which has called us together this afternoon, and I can remem- ber very well the active interest which Lord Lee took in the question of bees when, during the war, we had under con- sideration a scheme which was subse- quently adopted for the introduction of bees of better behaviour with respect to disease than those which are native to this country. He was enthusiastically in favour of the scheme ,and it was largely due to his energy that we were able, as a Government Department, to jiut it into action with a reasonable amount of celerity. Our main business this afternoon is to confer constructively on the subject of pro- posed legislation. I take it that we shall keep that object in the forefront of our. minds; we shall not allow this important Conference to .spend time in discussing de- tails or in offering criticisms,' which in proper time and place may very well be offered, against one another or against absent ones. I take it that we shall devote our attention to an instructive considera- tion of the question of legislation and the form which that legislation should take. But before we proceed to that business, I feel it my duty to trace in broad outline
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