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diminish the demand in the east and 

 make the honey stay in California 

 where it is and put the price down. 



Mr. Hawkins — Has the tariff rate 

 changed? That might induce Cuban 

 and South American honey to come in 

 here. 



Mr. Dadant — There is no tariff on 

 it; there is no change in the tariff rate. 



Mr. Hawkins — The gentleman here 

 on my left says that the tariff has been 

 reduced to ten cents a gallon. 



Mr. Bruner — I oold my honey last 

 year in New Orleans at GY2 cents a 

 pound; that is the early dark honey, 

 to bakers; they offered me 5 cents a 

 pound this year for the reason that 

 the tariff had been reduced. 



Just before I left home I had an in- 

 quiry for dark honey. I asked 6 cents 

 a pound in Milwaukee, after paying the 

 freight from New Orleans; they 

 wanted a lower price; I did not give it 

 to them. I think they will take the 

 honey at 6 cents a pound. There is a 

 reduction in the tariff rate in the cost 

 of honey at least 10 cents a gallon. 



Pres. Kannenberg — We have Mr. 

 Franpe -with us and he will give us a 

 talk on Foul Brood. 



Mr. France— It seems to me like an 

 old story to tell over again. This sub- 

 ject has been threshed over and over 

 and over again. 



The subject of Foul Brood we all 

 know is a serious one. 



European Foul Brood is a puzzling 

 proposition and if any one can tell me 

 the real cause for this European Foul 

 Brood and a positive remedy for it I 

 would be glad indeed for the occasion. 



The treatment we give which seems 

 to effect a remedy in one case does not 

 apply in another, but there are some 

 things that there is no question about. 



For instance, one of the things that 

 has held me back from eradicating the 

 disease in our state (Wisconsin) has 

 been the indifferent small bee-keeper 

 who had the disease and would prom- 

 ise to clean up and would not. I could 

 not afford to stay there and see that 

 it was done. 



On my return I would find that ev- 

 erything was just as I left it; and dur- 

 ing my absence, while I had been away, 

 the neighbor bees had contracted the 

 disease, until there had been a con- 

 siderable spreading of the disease. 



So I have adopted for this year just 

 closing a system, wherever we found 

 the disease, of leaving as it were a 



binding obligation on the part of that 

 bee-keeper that he would follow in- 

 structions in endeavoring to get rid of 

 it; leaving him instructions how to 

 treat it; and leaving him a report 

 blank to be filled out telling the def- 

 inite day and hour in which he must 

 return the duplicate slip, that we might 

 keep tab on him, and it has worked re- 

 markably well; so much so that I look 

 forward to the coming season and, un- 

 less it is imported, I expect Wisconsin 

 will have no foul brood at the end of 

 1915. 



But with the European Foul Brood— 

 which will break out without apparent 

 cause: After taking an apiary that 

 has been infected with it and cleaning 

 it up, re-queening; doubling up some 

 of the weaker colonies, leaving some 

 of the hives with some combs — it seems 

 to get rid of it. We can't say that for 

 American. If honey is left in an Amer- 

 ican diseased colony it is dangerous 

 wherever it goes. 



I tried when our legislature renewed 

 our law by which I had the power of 

 Deputy, to include in there the sale of 

 second hand honey cans; I knew it 

 would hit some, but really they have 

 been an annoyance to me all over our 

 state. 



Bee-keepers would pick them up be- 

 cause they were seemingly cheap, and 

 bring them home to their yards, and 

 invariably they would have a little 

 honey in, and they would throw them 

 out and the bees come in contact with 

 the cans, thrown promiscuously any- 

 where and everywhere. 



I believe there should be something 

 done by which when a can has been 

 once used it would be out of service 

 to be used again. 



In one way we are pretty fortunate, 

 in that the Can Companies are making 

 so thin a tin can that it is pretty 

 nearly useless to undertake to use over 

 a second time; especially those that 

 are shipped from the western states; 

 they are a doubtful proposition; many 

 times the outside looks good, but I 

 would not take them as a gift. 



I have been offered some for simply 

 the taking but I would not have them. 

 I would not dare take them. 



One of my Wisconsin bee-keepers 

 took occasion to buy some of them 

 and if he had paid a Canning Company 

 15 cents above the retail price he 

 would have been ahead. When he put 

 honey in those cans, manj^ were worn 



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