ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS ASSOCIATION. 



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THE CONTROL OF EUROPEAN FOUL BROOD. 



(Dr. E. F. Phillips, Washington, D. C.) 

 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I want to confess, in the 

 first place, that I haven't talked on the subject of "European Foul 

 Brood Control" for a good many months, and perhaps not for several 

 years. There was a time four or five years ago when there was scarcely 

 a bee-keepers' convention which did not have a discussion on this very 

 important subject, but we have gotten away from it to a certain extent. 

 Not that the diease has been materially reduced in scope in this country. 



DR. E. F. PHILLIPS. 



but that the bee-keepers have better learned to get it under control, 

 so that it has not been necessary for us to discuss it as frequently as 

 we formerly did. 



Now, the Bureau of Entomology has been interested in European 

 foul brood for the last ten or twelve years. We thought we had been 

 making some progress with it, but it was not until we began an entirely 

 different investigation that we really found out some of the important 

 things about European foul brood control. We discovered the main 

 things in the control of European foul brood in discussing our present 

 hobby, the subject of wintering, and it is that phase of it that I want 

 to talk over this afternoon. 



