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The main point is that the bee keeper has not known and does not 

 know what to do, and it is necessary for us to carry on our campaign of 

 education in connection with the law in order to let the bee keeper 

 know what he has to do. 



Chairman Paddock: The importance of this subject commands 

 careful consideration by this body and I hope you that will feel free to 

 discuss this matter fully. I am sure that there are some here who have 

 views that the}- might care to express. 



Mr. Root: There is one point that I can illustrate on the board of 

 distinction between the two diseases. I think of all the states I have 

 ever been in, in the United States, California has been diseased the 

 worst. I do not think there is any possibility of being mistaken on that 

 point. They had one kind of Foul Brood that is very confusing there. 

 It is a European Foul Brood in advanced stage. It looks so much like 

 American that it is called American and they treated it for American 

 but it did no good. We used to say that if any dead matter will rope 

 out an inch or two inches, you can tell whether it is American or Euro- 

 pean. If it ropes out an inch or so, it is American. That rule does not 

 apply. 



Chairman Paddock: If there is no further discussion, we will pro- 

 ceed to the transaction of the business and under that heading I will 

 ask Dr. S. B. Fracker to bring a matter to your attention. 



Dr. S. B. Fracker: At the request of Mr. Kindig, the State Inspec- 

 tor and Apiarist of Michigan, the Apiary inspectors of the Mississippi 

 Valley met at Chicago on December 6, 1920, discussing various facts 

 of interest to bee keepers. Resolutions were passed on one topic. 

 They were really in the form of an agreement between the inspectors. 



Since coming to the meeting, the Chairman of this section and the 

 Secretary have asked me to present an outline of the action taken and 

 the reason therefor. The meeting was called primarily because of the 

 transportation from one state to another in this territory of two apiaries 

 into clean territory under an inspection certificate from the State of 

 origin. The transportation naturally resulted in a certain amount of 

 correspondence and apologies from the inspectors who personally 

 examined the apiaries. In heavily infected territories, two or three 

 colonies were found diseased and destroyed, the remainder of the 

 apiary was given a certificate of inspection and freedom from diseases. 

 The apiary was transported into another state into clean territory and 

 the diseases were introduced. In one case, at least, the territory had 

 been cleaned at great expense through an apiary cleanup campaign, and 

 not a single case was known in the territory at that time, although they 

 had had diseases before. 



