ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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Keep the bees down; don't increase 

 them so fast. 



Mr. R. A. Burnett — Mr. President, I 

 am delighted to follow Mr. Rattig. I 

 have heard of its being a "skidoo" 

 number, but not so with him. His is 

 an interesting story. 



Mr. J. R. Simmons — I believe I made 

 my report a little while ago. I live 

 about 20 to 25 miles south of here, in 

 Co&k County, and I did not get any 

 honey this year, that is, not enough tt 

 call it anything. I do not cal] it any 

 ii I do not get 8 to 10 lbs. I heard 

 so Me one say last year it was because 

 th.i bees were not cared for; but I ga'' e 

 niy be«=s good care. 



i..ast j'ear I got 175 lbs. to tlie co'ony. 

 This year I didn't get anythin;?. The 

 prospect for sweet clover was never 

 betif.-. but white clover not much. The 

 sweet clover ig up about one foot high. 



Mr. J. H. Kneser— ^Northeast part of 

 Illinois. 55 lbs. per colony, two-flfths 

 comb, three-fifths extracted. Prospects 

 fairly good. 



Air t . Kubick — About -2 miles from 

 Chicago. I had a fierce battle with 

 foul bior.d, so I won't mentiji the crop, 

 and combined with that a poor season. 

 i do :',<rfe with Mr. Asp'nv;ali. that 

 foi. Yvi od has come to stay. There a;- 

 P'joiiJe keeping bees who have no rigl?t 

 t') uni' /H this way my b8->s were con- 

 tarn'riUteJ, like a good many others 

 this year. 



Another thing — is th^ Inspector. 

 There was an Inspector out there and 

 he IcoKcd some of these ove '. I do not 

 know whether he knew foul brood when 

 he saw it. I called in a m^. i who hari 

 iiyd a little experience with frul bro.5d 

 ■:nd he said it was American l"<ul 

 Urood, and so I treat<^a the entire 

 Lunch, and you can imagine what li'V 

 crop was. 



There are a good many people, when 

 they buy a section of comb honey from 

 a man who keeps bees, they do not 

 realize the trouble he has been to in 

 wintering them and they will .go and 

 got -i hive of bees and they don't know 

 how to take care of beas, and th^se 

 beta will bcome contaminxel; they 

 don'i know what the trouDle is; they 

 leave those bees to die there and every- 

 body's bees nearby will have a luxur- 

 ious feast, and what is '.he re.'^alt? 



This one man had 15 colonies, and he 

 always complained he did not get 

 honey, and I looked at one of his hives 

 at one time, and, not knowing what 



foul brood was, I recognized there was 

 something wrong. He claimed an In- 

 spector had looked at them and said 

 he thought he had foul brood in two 

 colonies. He burned those two colo- 

 nies, and he should have treated the 

 entire bunch. 



Another thing, in treating foul brood, 

 as I have found out, is that you have 

 to sterilize everything. I don't believe 

 in letting the bees clean out the hives 

 themselves. The germ is in there and 

 you have to burn it out and boil the 

 frames and then it is only a question 

 of time but that you will get it. Again, 

 there are so many moss-backed bee- 

 keepers around. 



Mr, Miller — I don't know whether I 

 am one of those moss-backed bee- 

 keepers. I have had eight years ex- 

 perience with foul brood. I never 

 burned a hive in my life. Bees don't 

 eat wood. 



I have gotten rid of foul brood in 

 three of my five yards, and very little 

 in the other two. It is the European 

 Foul Brood, not the American. 



I have lately learned how to clean 

 this foul brood without even destroying 

 the combs. I used to destroy the 

 combs. 



Mr. Dadant — That is altogether dif- 

 ferent. 



Mr. Miller — I never burned a colony 

 of bees but once when I first got foul 

 brood. An old gentleman told me that 

 the only way to cure foul brood was 

 to burn up everything. I burned one 

 hive and quit and never burned an- 

 other one since. There is no need of it. 

 People who have had no experience 

 with foul brood say that the best thing 

 is to bum up everything, but after 

 several years of experience I find there 

 is no necessity of destroying property 

 that way. 



Mr. Dadant — Do you refer to Ameri- 

 can Foul Brood? 



Mr. Miller — European Foul Brood. 



Mr. Kannenberg — ^We will stand ad- 

 journed until 1:30 p. m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Meeting called to order at 1:30 p. m., 

 Pres. Kannenberg presiding. 



Pres. Kannenberg — ^We will hear 

 from Mr. Kubick — 



Mr. C. Kubick — I live 25 miles from 

 Chicago, southwest of here. I have 

 three apiaries, two of them made 

 enough to live over the winter and the 

 other one, I have something like 3,200 

 lbs. of sugar to keep them alive. 



