ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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A. L. KILDOW, 

 State Foul Brood Inspector. 



Foul Brood; three colonies were treated 

 and three destroyed. 



In September I Inspected 60 colonies 

 in two apiaries; found one diseased 

 with American Foul Brood. 



The deputies inspected 1,019 colonies 

 that same month, in 42 apiaries; found 

 7 apiaries diseased; American Foul 

 Brood; there were three colonies 

 treated that month by deputies. 



In October I visited 15 colonies in one 

 apiary; the deputies visited that game 

 month 31 colonies in one apiary; found 

 one apiary diseased, one with American 

 Foul Brood and one with European; 

 colonies treated — 12. Making the total 

 number of colonies treated — 12,809 in 

 783 apiaries; found 246 apiaries having 

 disease; 143 apiaries with American 

 and 127 with European; 88 colonies 

 were treated and 13 colonies destroyed. 

 We spent 323. days in inspection work; 

 expenses were $262.30; incidental ex- 

 penses $23.76 (stationery, postage, et 

 cetera), making a grand total of 

 $1,578.06 (as per the report given be- 

 low), leaving a balance for next spring's 

 work, that is up to July 1st, of $529.83. 



It will keep me watching, pretty close 

 if that money does not run out before 

 July 1st, so this year for the first time 



we will have expended all of our money. 

 Last year, you remember, from July 

 1st to the close of the year we were 

 short on funds. This time we will use 

 all our money and possibly a little bit 

 more if we had it. 



In the year 1914 much educational 

 work was done. 



For the northern part of the state, 

 a field-meet, or Institute, was held at 

 Rockford, and the bee-keepers of the 

 eastern part held their meeting at St. 

 Anne. Much practical knowledge was 

 obtained and the bee diseases were 

 studied from the infected combs, and 

 methods of treatment were explained. 



During the inspection work of this 

 year the following forty counties were 

 found to contain diseased apiaries: 

 - Bureau, .Crawford, Clark, Christian, 

 Cumberland, Cook, Douglas, Lake, Ma- 

 son, Macoupin, Marshall, McDonough, 

 DeWitt, Dupage, Edgar, Ford, Fulton, 

 Grundy, Henry, Madison, Ogle, Putnam, 

 Peoria, Rock Island, Hancock, Hender- 

 son, Iroquois, Kankakee, Kendall, Kane, 

 Logan, Shelby, Schuyler, Sangamon, 

 Vermilion, Will, La Salle, Stephenson, 

 Winnebago, Whiteside. 



In order to show a proper method of 

 treatment for diseased colonies, eighty- 

 eight colonies were treated by Inspec- 

 tor and Deputies. 



It would hardly seem reasonable for 

 the State Inspector and Deputies to 

 undertake to treat all diseased bees 

 in Illinois, but they should thoroughly 

 instruct the bee-keepers, so that they 

 will understand the disease and how to 

 handle it. 



Much work has been accomplished by 

 means of correspondence. 



The report given above gives a sum- 

 mary of the work of 1914. ■ 



Pres. Baxter — Ladies and Gentlemen: 

 you have heard the report of your Foul 

 Brood Inspector, vs^hat will you do with 

 it? 



Mr. Bowen— I rise for the purpose 

 of making a motion to adopt the re- 

 port — but before doing so I would like 

 to ask of the Inspector in what part 

 of the state he found the most disease. 



Mr. Kildow — My deputies found quite 

 a little this year in the west side of 

 the state, — something we have not 

 found before, — and the east side, south- 

 east of here, along in, — I cannot think 

 of the counties now; it seems to take 

 a circle, beginning at Hudsonville above 

 Iroquois County, down to Hancock; 

 there seems to be found most of the 



