The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-01-28

SesS 49, eSH~
was appropriated the sum Of 100000
dollars; and, now the taxpayers Of
this state are asked to spend a like
.sun on the bee industry.
Will Mr.. Ex1ele kindly explain why
1t Is that the taxpayers are to spend
three times as much this year on
bees as they Gid during the years
1925 and 1877, Will MI. Engle please
advise US as to just what diseases
lbees are exposed. to this. year, that
they did not have To dodge in previ-
Gus years? WIN any 81 the sponsors
of this appropriation kindly advise
US as to lust what kind Of disease
bees are commonly afflicted with? Is
1t rheumatism, govt. lnfantile-paral-
ysis or just common heart failure?
The writer was born and reared In
the state Of Michigan where we had
more bees tran North Dakota ever
had Or ever will have; and we had no
one running around the country at
ten, dollars per day, and expenses,
telling us that our bees were off their
feed. We well recall. the. times in the
spring OF the year when father would
take cut the cards from the hives.
look them over for moth and II any
was found eliminate them himself.
He did. not have the help Of some
political wire puller or graduate from
the Agricultural college 70 help him.
He went TO 1t alone. But Mr.. Engle
may say that the poor old state of
Michigan could not afford the ex-
pense Of q good inspector, that North
Dakota, being very prosperous. can
afford such luxuries.
There are today q great many men
who are more intelligent than MI.
Engle 81 the writer, who agree that
the best governed people are the least
governed people. In the estimation
of the writer we have = great many
more laws now than we need, and al
so a great many more inspectors than
we al afford to have.
II more inspectors are appointed
each year for the next 40 years, as has
been done in the last 20 years, we will
find that then no farmer will be al
lowed to slop his hogs, feed his
chickens, or milk his cows. unaided
by at least one good inspector. They
new look after his horses for glanders,
his cattle for tuberculosis, his hogs
for cholera, his chickens for roup
and now comes his bees for all kinds
Of contagious and infectious diseases.
We presume that some biologist has
figured out that bees n very suscep-
tible to infectious diseases and there
fore are in need Of constant surveil-
lance.
Now in order to be plain on this
subject, we want to quote one section
of this law. as 1t IS found in session
laws Of 1923, at page 128, which reads
as follows: Section 8, II said owner
or person In charge shall refuse or
neglect to carry out the instructions
within the period herein specified, the
commissioner shall have the power
to apply, or cause to be applied such
treatment, or In his discretion and II
deemed necessary, may destroy such
infected bees or property; and no
damages shall be awarded to the own
er for the loss Of an infected apiary,
bees, hives, apiary appliance or bee
PAOANNV O0OVAV yCA AAAOCA WAC HAOtA-
sion Of this act, or any order or regu-
lation made in pursuance thereof"
Now this section has reference to
the inspection of your bees by the
inspector and shows what his author
ity over your property IS.
He is omnipotent; he acts even on
suspicion. II he says your bees
r~ighteously deserve to be burned a
witches were at one time, then you
dare not gain say him. You simply
get out the torch and go to it, and
the amazing thing about 1t all /.
chat you pay him at least 10 dollars
per day for destroying your property
What other class of man, or men
would stahd for this but the farmer?
Where, Oh: where Is your Magma
Charta? Now MI. Engle says, in ef-
feet, that he has ventured into the