. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1919 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 47. CAWSTON "STRICH FARM) Jay Smith on a "Seeing California" excursion. in dealing with foulbrood. When the disease was confined to a small ter- ritory it was reasonable to expect that its spread might be checked by establishing quarantine against in- fected areas. Now that it is present in probably every State in the Union, little is to be accomplished for one infected State to establish a quaran- tine against another infected State. There should be laws to govern the movement of diseased apiaries, as a matter
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1919 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 47. CAWSTON "STRICH FARM) Jay Smith on a "Seeing California" excursion. in dealing with foulbrood. When the disease was confined to a small ter- ritory it was reasonable to expect that its spread might be checked by establishing quarantine against in- fected areas. Now that it is present in probably every State in the Union, little is to be accomplished for one infected State to establish a quaran- tine against another infected State. There should be laws to govern the movement of diseased apiaries, as a matter of course, but they should be administered in the same way as other laws. Hog cholera is a serious animal disease which the farmers of America have good reason to fear. Yet there is no general provision which makes it the business of a State to examine all the hogs at stated periods and destroy every herd where disease is found, nor yet to give the owner a certain period in which to treat them. Now that chol- era is widely spread and generally to be reckoned with, it is thought that the owner's financial interest in the hogs should be sufficient incentive to give the matter his attention. The writer has had five years' ex- perience as a bee inspector and knows something of the impossibility of getting results under existing laws. In the first place, it is a prac- tical impossibility to examine all the bees in a locality in the thorough manner necessary to establish the presence of disease in every case. If bees are examined in such a manner, there is no time left to give their owner assistance or instruction in dealing with the disease, and the chances are good that, without pre- vious experience, if he tries to treat them, he will only make a bad mat- ter worse and spread the disease still further. If, instead of coming as a police- man sworn to compel the owner of every diseased colony to cure or kill, the inspector came as a demon- strator to assist the owner in treat- ing
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