66 EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Mr. Kildow.- — Doolittle, as I understand it, for many years before 

 he died made a business of rearing what he called goldens and I do 

 not believe we have a man in the bee fraternity to-day that will come 

 up to the average that that man had year after year, wintering and 

 storing surplus. Now if we are going after some other points, why 

 cannot we have this? There is no man living, I believe, that has 

 given us better works on bees, hardly, than Doolittle. If we are going 

 to take Tom, Dick and Harry's, why not take his authority. I am 

 not crying up the golden or the black, I have got a mixture of all of 

 them, but give each fellow his dues. 



Question. — How can we eradicate European foul brood? 



Mr. Millen. — I think that depends upon circumstances, but 

 there are two things undoubtedly that have a great bearing on it, young, 

 vigorous bees and strong colonies with lots of honey. 



Mr. Hinzel. — You expect that would be a prevention, you name 

 that as a prevention? 



Mr. Millen. — No. It does not eradicate it, it keeps it under 

 control. It is hard some times to eradicate it. 



The President. — Let the IlUnois man talk and get the two 

 inspectors in an argument. 



Mr. Kildow. — It is hard to get into an argument, because we 

 agree. Take his plan and if you at first do not succeed, try again. 

 That is the only way I know of. If first your queen does not clean 

 out the disease, re-queen them again. 



Mr. Heinzel. — He did not say anything about re-queening. 



Mr. Millen. — I think many bee-keepers fail because they do 

 not combine the three things. They wait till the young queen in a 

 weak colony should bring results, they do not have the combination. 

 If you have young queens, have a good resistant strain and a strong 

 colony and then plenty of honey, you should not worry about your 

 European foul brood at all. 



Mr. Kildow. — I do not think we can add anything to it, unless 

 we say, do it over again. 



Mr. Pettit. — I put in that question to start an argument, but 

 I have not succedded very well so far. I do not consider my question 

 is answered. I put in the word eradicate, because I only know of one 

 case where it has been reported that European foul brood has been 

 eradicated and when I say eradicated I mean so that it does not occur 

 again in the apiary or the community. I know of one state where the 

 inspector reported having eradicated it from whole counties and dis- 

 tricts. I am like Mr. Millen and Mr. Kildow; with these three factors 

 in control I am not worrying about European foul brood and I really 

 suppose I should drop it at that. 



We had a great deal of it in some sections of Ontario and the 

 trouble that we have had in our inspection work has been to get the 

 idea across to bee-keepers that we are not teaching them. That all 

 they have to do is to get Italian queens and to forget about the bees 

 until some time when it is time to take the honey off, something like 

 that, that they have done their duty. We need the other factors, 

 strong colonies and plenty of stores and with that we can keep it down, 

 but it still needs watching. The first man in Ontario who reported 



