ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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lowances for Mr. Werner. I went to 

 see him, to ask him to look after the 

 country there and he could hardly get 

 in the house or out; I made up my 

 mind that he was not good for this 

 country; I would not give him fifteen 

 cents for himself. 



Pres. Dadant — You have heard the 

 report — what will you do with it? 



Motion made that it be accepted — ■ 

 seconded. Carried. 



Mr. France — Did the owner ask for 

 any compensation for thos'e that were 

 destroyed? 



Mr. Kildow — Not a bit. 



Mr. France — Did he consider they 

 were of any value? 



Mr. Kildow — Down at Frederick 

 there is a man to whom I wrote this 

 spring and told him it was a pretty 

 good spring to clean up, and I didn't 

 get any answer. I went down there 

 just the commencing of basswood; he 

 had six old 'boxes, puttied up from top 

 to bottom with mud, three or four, six, 

 seven or eight-frame hives. That 

 place hasi had foul brood for a good 

 many years; and it seems like every 

 colony in the neighborhood is affected. 



I turned up a few box hives and 

 every one was diseased. 



I said to him — "I have been here 

 long enough with you and writing to 

 you and talking to you, and your 

 neighbors have been cleaning up, and 

 you have been feeding the disease back 

 to them. You might as well get at it 

 now." He thought it over, and ten 

 minutes later he came and said to me — 

 "Have you time to stay a little while?" 

 I said — "I will take it." "You come 

 back and we will get at it," he said. 



And I went back. That was along 

 about noon. He said, "If you can stay 

 here tomorrow, I will get the old kettle 

 ready by daylight in the morning and 

 we will transfer these bees, every one 

 of them," and when daylight came, he 

 had the old kettle boiling, and we 

 shook everything out of the box hives 

 and burned the combs that were too 

 bad; the others we put in a gunny 

 sack and put in the kettle; so we 

 cleaned them up and rendered his wax 

 right there that day. 



"We cleaned the box hives whether 

 there was disease in them or not. How 

 he will do, I don't know. He ig not a 

 very good man to keep things clean; 

 but he was clean then, all right. I will 

 have to go there in the spring to see 

 whether he kept them clean. 



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I found two or three other places 

 where they were badly gone; and I 

 instructed the man that the best thing 

 he could do was to burn them; he 

 asked me, when, and I, said, right 

 away. He said — "We might as well do 

 it now, then." I told him to get the 

 kerosene, and I had a lighted match 

 to it before he had time to change his 

 mind, and in that way I burned eleven 

 of them with the owner's consent. 



Mr. Moore — I have had a little ex- 

 perience this season with box hives 

 and so-called movable frame hives. I 

 would sooner inspect a box hive than 

 a movable frame hive. I have found 

 movable hives with combs built cross- 

 ways and it is impossible to get in 

 them, but you can get clear to the top 

 of the combs of the box hives. So far 

 as advocating frame hives for the ma- 

 jority of bee-keepers, I am opposed to 

 it. 



Mr. Vaughn — In our neighborhood 

 there is a good deal of disease; there 

 are some four or five country bee- 

 keepers that have had the disease more 

 or less in their hives, and what was 

 inspected this year was my yard and 

 Mr. Riggs. Mr. Becker examined my 

 colonies and found no disease. 



Last year we had that disease to 

 fight, and this year again. I had ten 

 colonies at one time diseased, very 

 slightly though. But one of my neigh- 

 bors last year had three hives and they 

 were supposed to be movable frame 

 hives. I knew they had the disease — 

 I could smell it, and I told him they 

 were diseased; they were not working 

 like they should. 



He wanted me to open the hives and 

 show him the disease; he wanted to 

 know the method of the cure. I told 

 him the shaking plan. 



Pres. Dadant — ^When you find disease 

 among your neighbor's bees — inform 

 the inspector. 



Mr. Vaughn— The inspector had been 

 there in the spring. I was at a con- 

 vention and didn't get to see the in- 

 spector. 



Mr. Riggs was at home and I sup- 

 posed he would show the inspector 

 around. He inspected a few out in the 

 country, but this year their bees were 

 not inspected, and I know that disease 

 is among them. 



Mr. Stone — Did you read the law to 

 any of them? 



Mr. Vaughn — Yes. They said the' 

 inspector would have to clean it up. 



