The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-02
QUEEN BEES AND
HORSE CHAMBERS
Danger in importing the Former
and in Buying the
Latter.

the horse quarantine station by your
Japanese stableman.
Don't send away for 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 for nothing.
These two "don'ts" were enforced by
reports made to the meeting of the
Board of Agriculture and Forestry yes
terday afternoon.
The first, in regard to glanders, was
reported by DR.. Norgaard, the Terri
torial Veterinarian. AS ILLUSTRATING the
difficulty of stamping out the disease
he cited an incident that has come
under his observation lately. citi-
zen bought horse and a week or so
later found it had glanders. He sent
his Japanese stableman with it to the
glanders quarantine station to have
the horse destroyed. The Jap came
back smiling with satisfaction an hour
or so later, and produced $35, for which
he had sold the horse, rendering it to
his employer. The employer at once
began search for the horse. He
found the buyer, who had sold it again
for $50, and again tracing the animal
third time for SIS.
There have been three cases Of
glanders 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 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
Iel4ldS was 1IOII1 Tie u1lIOuuCI1OH mere
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
but keep a few colonies |
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 |
oee-keepers.
Mr.. Waterhouse said that the bee
keepers of the islands would gladly
give queen bees to persons keeping
)ees for pleasure. rather than have
hem run the risk of importing bee
diseases here.
DR.. Phillips, the bee expert who
ailed yesterday for the mainland on
he Alameda, reported that in his
opinion there were no contagious bee
diseases in the Territory. The intro
uction of American Foul Brood, how
ver, would in all probability kills the
industry. f
FORESTRY REPORT.
The committee on forestry made the
report, covering several i'm
ortant matters. The report was ,
dopted:
I'm view of Mr.. Hosmer's report on
he question of forestry in the Hama
ua district, Hawaii, the majority of ,
our committee recommends that the
l,ard take no action at the present 8
me in establishing forest lines in ,
his district and that the board ap- !,
rove the proposition of a lease to the
-ukaiau Plantation Company of the ;
overnment lands of Kaohe, Hoea-
-aao Kealakaha-Niupe and Mano-
-aialee.
Providing such lease is made by
le Commissioner of Public Lands. the r
1tire committee recommends that the
ase contain the following terms and
,nditions: /
''(a) That the term of the lease be t
1ch as to expire at the same time as t
lie leases of similar lands in the Ha- q
akua district made some time ago t
} the Parker Ranch Company. \
"(b) That the lease require the s
anting of a minimum of $4,000 trees
lch year for a period of eight years.
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