The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-04-03
QUEEN BEES AND
HORSE CHAMBERS


Don't send your glandered horse to
the horse quarantine station by your
Japanese stableman.
Don't send away for a queen bee;
the bee-keepers of Hawaii will give
you as good a one as you can get any
where. and give it to you Tor nothing.
These two ''don'ts" were enforced by
reports made to the meeting of the
Board of Agriculture and Forestry yes
terdsy afternoon.
The first, in regard to CHAMBERS, was
reported by DR.. Norgaard, the Terri
tnriaI Veterinarian. As ILLUSTRATING the
difficulty of stamping out the disease
ne cited an incident that has come
under his observation lately. A citi-
zen bought a horse and a week or so
later found il had CHAMBERS. He sent
his Japanese stableman with it to the
CHAMBERS quarantine station to have
the horse destroyed. The Jap came
back smiling with satisfaction an hour
OF so later, and produced s35, for which
he had sold the horse, rendering it to
began q search for the horse. He
found the buyer, who had sold it again
for 500, and again tracing the animal
they found it had been purchased a
third time for SIS.
There have been three cases of
CHAMBERS in Honolulu since the last
meeting of the board.
The matter of queen bees came up
on the report of Albert Waterhouse
for the bee committee of the board.
Governor Frear sent a communication
announcing his inability to approve the
draft of the regulations prepared by
the committee prohibiting the impor-
tation of queen bees except from GER
tain specified localities. The Govern
or held that these regulations went
beyond the power of the board to
make.
Mr. Waterhouse said that the great
danger to- the bee industry of the is
lands was from the introduction here
of the disease known as American
Foul Brood and European Foul Brood.
The greatest danger of the introduce
ton of these diseases was through the
importation of queens, and through the
importation of infected honey or COM
pounds of honey. Against the former
the bee-keepers of the islands were
preparing to protect themselves by
putting on the market local honey at
a price below what it could be import
ed for.
The other danger, that from queens,
could not be guarded against except
by arousing public attention to the
danger from this source. If queen
bees imported are properly quaran-
tined on arrival here, there need be no
danger, and the quarantining process
is inexpensive. The trouble is that the
queens are imported principally by
people who do not make a business of
Bookkeeping, but keep a few colonies
principally for their own qualification
and interest. Many of these are not
alive to the very great danger there
is in importing queen bees. They |
import them, too, at a cost to them |
selves of much more than they could
buy bees of equal quality from local |
bee-keepers.
Mr.. Waterhouse said that the bee
keepers of the islands would gladly |
give queen bees to persons keeping
bees for pleasure. rather than have
them run the risk of importing bee
diseases here.
DR.. Phillips, the bee expert, who
sailed yesterday for the mainland on
the Alameda, reported that in his
opinion there were no contagious bee
diseases in the Territory. The intro
duction of American Foul Brood, how
ever, would in all probability kill the
Industry.
FORESTRY REPORT.
The committee on forestry made the
report, covering several i'm
portant matters. The report was
adopted:
In view of Mr.. Hosmer's report on
the question of forestry in the Hama
Sua district, Hawaii, the majority of
your committee recommends that the
npard take no action at the present
time in establishing forest lines in
his district and that the board ap-
grove the proposition of a lease to the
Plantation Company of the
government lands of Kaohe, Hoea-
Saao, Observation-Disclosures and Mano-
Naialee.
Providing such lease is made by
he Commissioner of Public Lands, the +
sntire committee recommends that the :
ease contain the following terms and
conditions: :
"Cal That the term of the lease be $