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ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 45 



The Secretary. — Miss Becker did intend to -sell her bees, but 

 made up her mind to keep them. 



Mr. Kildow. — I got no word from them. > t 



The President. — Mr. Kildow, do you think diseases are on the 

 decrease in the State? 



Mr. Kildow. — Well, so far as we have been over the ground I 

 think that disease is on the decrease,, and especially it is on the de- 

 crease where they know how to handle it when they see it. 



The Secretary. — You think then the bee-keeper is becoming 

 better educated? 



Mr. Kildow. — They are becoming better educated, because we 

 come to many places where they understand it and help themselves. 

 I get letters from where they do not know how to work it, but when they 

 understand it they go after it without waiting for us. Here and there 

 parties do not know anything about it, that is where it gets them; 

 there is where we get our calls. Lots of questions come by way of 

 Washington. We have a few parties in Illinois, if they live 100 years 

 they will never know anything about it. 



Mr. Dadant. — Are there a large number of box-hives in the State? 



Mr. Kildow. — There are a great many. I do not care so much 

 about the box-hive, they are not as great a detriment as a frame with 

 an ignorant man behind it. The form of hive, after all, has not given 

 us as much worry as the green man. 



Mr. Dadant. — Maybe because there are so few of them educated 

 to the modern hive. 



The President. — You mean it is exactly that kind who use 

 the modern hive, but it is of no use to them. 



Mr. Kildow. — They buy frame hives and put bees in them, but 

 if they keep bees forty years they never would make a success. 



. Mr. Warber. — Do you make these visits upon requests, or 

 upon your own initiative? 



Mr. Kildow. — Both. It is supposed that we go upon request, 

 but it is left so that if I think it necessary I can go. 



Mr. Dadant. — What is the most spread, the American or Euro- 

 pean, in Illinois. 



Mr. Kildow. — I think at the present time there is a little more 

 European. 



Mr. Dadant. — Which is the easier to eradicate, in your opinion? 



Mr. Kildow. — I would rather work with the American, because 

 when I treat American colonies I feel satisfied that I am done. It 

 is not so with the European. As I understand from the deputy in 

 the southern part of the State, there is a great deal of re-queening 

 done this summer, so we will be in shape next spring though they do 

 not use enough care. If they do re-queen they will make a success. 



The President. — Gentlemen, you have heard the report of Mr. 

 Kildow; what shall we do with it. 



A motion that the report be received and placed on file was duly 

 seconded and carried. 



The President. — The next paper was to have been by Hon. N. 

 E. France, of Plattville, Wisconsin. It is impossible for him to be 

 here on account of the illness of his son, and I am going to ask Mr. 

 Dadant to give his paper this afternoon. 



