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SIXTEENTH ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE 



some from every county in the state. 

 Some of the crop reporters sent as 

 many as ten names; we have that list 

 yet. 



President Baxter — You can get an- 

 other one the same way. 



Mr. Stone — Mr. Kildow has access 

 to all the crop reports that come in 

 the December number of the State 

 Report. He can send them out and 

 get as many names in that way and 

 then he can have a pretty good starter 

 I would think. 



Mr. Pyles — My idea seems to have 

 been entirely overlooked. The only 

 change that I am asking for is the 

 Card Index System. Only that the 

 record of work done will go on the 

 card. 



There is another thing: I am only 

 advocating the laying ofC of certain 

 territory for the first year, and make 

 that the area that must be gone over 

 thoroughly, and not one individual 

 bee-keeper left out in that territory 

 without his bees being inspected and 

 without his being compelled to cleaiV 

 up. 



By doing that, and placing a quaran- 

 tine upon his bees and honey and 

 stuff, it is to his interest to get busy 

 and clean up if he is producing a pound 

 of honey for sale; and, if he is not, it 

 is time to get after him. 



The card index system only takes the 

 work up from now on as it is to be 

 done. 



So, when I report to Mr. Kildow I 

 have inspected so and so's bees, it is on 

 this card, and is filed away. 



If I visit that apiary again, it goes 

 on that individual card in this record, 

 and what has been done from time to 

 time is recorded. If he has been har- 

 boring disease for five or six years, 

 and there is no improvement shown, 

 there comes a time when the Inspector 

 will step in and see that something is 

 done. 



"When we go up through Marshall or 

 Putnam or Peoria County, we follow 

 the railroad, follow the railroad sec- 

 tions, and there are some places in the 

 county that are never visited at any 

 time. Possibly some places within a 

 few miles have not been visited because 

 it is too far to walk. If he is going to 

 make a canvass of the whole county, 

 he will have to get all this work done 

 before he quits, so that there will not 



be a man left out if he has only one 

 box hive. 



"We have got a lot of good, efficient 

 work done, but the Inspector knows as 

 well as the deputy that some of this 

 work that should have been done has 

 not been done, and it cannot be done 

 under the present system. 



The Inspector gives me orders to 

 travel as cheap as possible, to avoid 

 livery .hire, not to live at a $2.00 or 

 $3.00 a day hotel, but to get a meal at 

 twenty -five cents where we can; to 

 get as much work done as possible for 

 the money. 



I think that is the system he has 

 carried out ever since he was the In- 

 spector; but, if you lay out a certain 

 territory that has got to be cleaned up 

 before you go any farther, I can see 

 how, with fifty-one counties, it is go- 

 ing' to be possible to cover the territoi'y 

 n and cover it thoroughly, and in the 

 course of two or three years we will 

 have the state cleaned up. 



Mr. Kildow — I would like to have this 

 matter threshed out now, and have the 

 Card System adopted, if that is the 

 best method of keeping the records. 



A Member — I would like to ask the 

 nature of this quarantine and what it 

 constitutes. 



President Baxter — Have you read the 

 state law on inspection? You better 

 read it and make yourself familiar 

 with it. 



Mr. Pyles — This individual card 

 says: "My apiary has been examined." 

 It gives the date, the type of hive, 

 et cetera. 



Mr. Dadant — I think it would be a 

 good plan to read what the card says: 



"This is from Massachusetts: 

 J. N. Smith. 

 .The date— 1915. 

 Type of hive — Langstroth. 

 Winter loss — None. 

 Spring count — 4. 

 Present count — 6. 

 Examined — 6. 



American foul brood — None. 

 European foul brood — 3. 

 Sack brood — None. 

 Treated — None. 

 Destroyed — None. 

 Remarks — Good Bee -Keeper. 

 To be reinspected 191 ** 

 Quarantined July 25." 

 Then comes the next inspection, 

 1916: 



