The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-29
PLANT QUARANTINE
RULES AND
REGULATIONS

Circular No. SO of the Florida State
Plant Board, issued April 20, gives
the rules and regulations adopted on
April II:
kule AGE is amended to read that:
The shipment, transportation or
movement of honey from the prem
Uses OF any apiary which is infected
with American foul brood or which is
under quarantine, on account of the
disease having been found therein, in
accordance with the provisions of rule
4oB, except when such honey is con-
tanned in new standard square five
gallon tin honey canes, free from
leaks and free from all traces of
honey on the outside and securely
Grated in regulation honey or export
wooden cases is hereby forbidden.
The gift sale or offering for SALE
within the state of Florida of honey
produced in any apiary which is in
fected with Americal foul brood or
which is under quarantine by the
state plant board on account of the
disease having been found therein is
hereby prohibited
Another rule adopted reads as fol-
lows.
Rule 40F. Every apiary, bee yard
or colony of bees situated in the state
| of Florida which is, has been or shall
become infected with elther-of the dis
eases known rs American foul brood
and European foul brood is hereby
declared to be the center of an in
| fected and dangerous zone, which
zone shall extend for two miles in
every direction from said center and
within which center and zone all
honey bees are declared to be exposed
to the danger of infection and likely
to harbor and disseminate such infec-
ton.
The movement of honey bees and
of used Bookkeeping equipmnt within
such zon and the removal therefrom
of honey bees or usd Bookkeeping
equipment is prohibited; provided,
that money bees and used Bookkeeping
equipment may be moved within such
zone or removed therefrom after they
have been inspected by duly quail
fed agent of the state plant board
and certified as being apparently free
from Infection
The keeping, within such zone, of
honey bees in box-hives, long gums
or other form of hive not permitting
of the ready removal of all frames
and combs therefrom for inspection is
hereby prohibited.
Whenever inspection discloses that
honey bees are being kept in box
hives or similar containers within
such zone the plant commissioner
shall cause written notice to be
served upon the owner or other dr.
son in possession or control of such
bees or if the owner or person in
possession or control Of the premises
WhereOn said bees are located, requir-
ing such owner or other person to
transfer such bees to movable frame
hives within a reasonable time there
afr. In event such owner or Other
person shall fail or neglece to carry
out the requirements of said orde,
within the time specified then and II
that event such colonies Of bees shall
be destroyed by the inspector OF th'
state plant board for the purpose o
preventing their harboring and per
petuating infection.
] "All the requirements Of this rul
shall remain in force and effect il
every such zone until such time a
the liant commissioner shall have de
termined and declared that the dan
gerous conditions due to the occur
renee of American or European fou
brood no longer exist therein"