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by the Foul Brood Inspector ought to 

 be very thorough and there ought to be 

 a very careful record kept of it. Now 

 I think that the suggestion made is a 

 good one; that a record of the localities 

 that have been visited be put in the 

 report, and also the results of the in- 

 spection, and I believe we will And 

 that this report is rather complete. 

 When the legislators see this report, 

 they should have some idea of the good 

 that is being accomplished and will be 

 more ready to grant us the appropria- 

 tion we are asking for. 



My idea has been to push the fertili- 

 zation of flowers, and the good that the 

 bees are doing not only to individual 

 beie-keepers but to tillers of the soil 

 throughout the state — and also what 

 the inspection is doing to save these 

 colonies — to have them on hand to ac- 

 complish these objects, so that we can 

 show this to the legislature and the 

 Governor, and we will get what we 

 ask for. 



If we can show them we are doing 

 some good — something that must be 

 kept up — we will have no trouble in 

 getting what we ask. 



Mrs. Kildow — As Secretary for the 

 State Inspector I wish to state, for the 

 benefit of those who do not know, that 

 a record is kept of every apiary that is 

 visited, either by the Inspector or Dep- 

 uty, the name of the party owning, the 

 number of colonies he has, the kind 

 of disease he has, by whom treated, 

 when treated, and then later the result 

 of that treatment, and in a number of 

 cases cards have been left to notify 

 the Inspector or his office when the In- 

 spector is away working. Those are 

 also on file in the office under the 

 owner's signature. 



Mr. Moore — I found on Inspection 

 work in the western part of the state, 

 under our present crop conditions this 

 season, extremely dry; no honey com-, 

 ing in — it was practically -impossible 

 to treat diseased colonies with any de- 

 gree of success. The conditions were 

 such that if you opened a hive robbing 

 was started Immediately. I advised 

 those parties to watch the bees care- 

 fully and if any dwindled out in the 

 early spring or winter — to destroy 

 those combs immediately and close the 

 hives up; and I said that I or some 

 other Inspector would be there next 

 spring as soon as possible to work with 

 the bees. That if they wanted to go 

 ahead in the spring and clean up be- 



fore any one got there, all right; but 

 knowing conditions this fall I didn't 

 think it advisable for them to do the 

 treating. 



I found in localities where we find 

 American Foul Brood there is o^ten 

 very little European Foul Brood; only 

 one or two cases; in my territory it is 

 practically all American Foul Brood. 

 I found in isolated cases — isolated lo- 

 calities rather — where practically all 

 the bees in that locality would be dis- 

 eased but a few miles from there there 

 would be no disease. I thought the plan 

 would be in these localities to destroy 

 all combs in the very weakest colonies 

 in the spring and allow no robbing, and 

 we could then get in and clean up. 



Pres. Baxter — Mr. Moore's position is 

 a correct one. I don't believe there 

 ever was a time in Illinois when 

 weather conditions were so favorable 

 for Foul Brood, and no time when con- 

 ditions were so adversfe for the treat- 

 ment of Foul Broody Colonies. It is 

 very important to find out where the 

 disease is; to caution the owners to 

 be careful and destroy the colonies 

 when they get so weak there is no hope 

 of saving them so as to prevent robbing' 

 and spreading the disease, and that is 

 why last fall, if you remember, I cau- 

 tioned our Foul Brood Inspector to put 

 in all the time he could this summer 

 with the deputies. 



We don't want to let it spread at all 

 if we can help it, and there never was 

 a time so propitious as now to spread 

 the disease. 



Mr. Kildow — That is why I say we 

 will use up all the money, we have got; 

 we have to go around this spring as 

 soon as the conditions are fit and clean 

 up. This is one of the worst years we 

 have had for Foul Brood to develop, 

 and if we can stop it we will be in 

 pretty good shape. 



Pres. Baxter — Mr. Kildow and my- 

 self have some business to' attend to 

 this morning. Mr. Kildow was Chair- 

 man of the Committee on Resolutions; 

 Mr. Bowen will please accept the 

 Chairmanship of this Committee on 

 Resolutions. Mr. Kildow has to be out 

 of the room a good part of the time 

 today. I think it will be better, Mr. 

 Bowen, that you take the Chairman- 

 ship of this Committee. You will know 

 what is going on and what needs to be 

 reported. 



Now, if Mr. Moore will please take 

 the Chair, I will go with Mr. Kildow. 



