ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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diseased in the fore part of the season 

 it is the best time; you have a longer 

 season before you for them to build up 

 in, but if it is bad at any other season 

 you must begin immediately. 



Mr. Diebold^The colonies were 

 strong- Jn the early spring and by the 

 time the bees commenced to swarm on 

 heartsease they were dwindled down to 

 little or nothing; I let them go through 

 drought without feeding. 



Mr. ft^ildow — Most 'bee-keepers didn't 

 feed the bees and keep them strong 

 this year. 



Mr. Mandle — Is there any certain ter- 

 ritory the deputy is supposed to cover? 



Mr. Kildow — Not exactly; he is sup- 

 posed to go wherever I send him. 



Mr. Mandle — You spoke about the 

 difficulty of appointing good deputies 

 because they would not care to take the 

 time to inspect other apiaries. You 

 can nearly always find somebody — 

 some slipshod fellow ■ in the commu- 

 nity — who has box' -hives who is liable 

 to have the disease. It seems to me 

 it would be a good thi% and would 

 stand the bee-keeper in h&nd who had 

 a good apiary if he could get somebody 

 to go in there and clean up these slip- 

 shod fellows, or if he could be himself 

 appointed long enough to have the 

 authority. If I suspect a bee-keeper in 

 my neighborhood has the disease, if I 

 had the authority, I would like to go 

 in and clean it up. 



Mr. Kildow — I would like to get a 

 deputy as near as I can to the place 

 where the disease is. Here is another 

 drawback; your neighbor oftentimes 

 hates to mind his next door neighbor 

 and a stranger will do much better 

 than he will. 



Mr. Mandle — We had an old fogy 

 bee-keeper in our town; he said he 

 had forgotten more than all the bee- 

 keepers in the country ever knew and 

 he didn't believe what was written 

 about it. Just such a fellow as that 

 is liable to have the disease. 



Mr. Klidow — A stranger he will listen 

 to but he thinks he knows mdre than 

 his neighbor and hates to have his 

 -neighbor tell him what to do. Still 

 others we find have a good deal of com- 

 mon sense and want you to come. 



Mr. Mandle — I understand the law is 

 that a man who has an apiary of that 

 kind is compelled to undergo inspection 

 in case it is necessary. 



Mr. Kildow — Yes. I have to send 

 the names of my deputies in to the 

 Civil Service and it is up to them 

 whether they confirm my appointments. 

 Sometimes I have the privilege of ap- 

 pointing an emergency deputy, but that 

 takes a little red tape and I don't like 

 to do it very often, not more often 

 than I can help. 



Mr. Bennett — How do you inspect 

 them? 



Mr. Kildow — Turn them upside down 

 and take the comb out. 



Mr. Mandle — I think I will give you 

 an invitation to come down to my 

 neighborhood next summer. 



Mr. Dadant — I had a little experience 

 in regard to Deputy inspection work, or 

 rather my oldest son had. Mr. Kildow 

 appointed him as Deputy Inspector in 

 our neighborhood and he did very much 

 as Mr. Kildow has suggested: He 

 didn't have the time, and when he 

 found the disease in the neighborhood 

 he found the time because it was, as 

 some people say, a ground hog case. 

 We must destroy it or catch it our- 

 selves. 



We got some ourselves and destroyed 

 it and it came back because it was in 

 the neighborhood. 



If a man can be appointed Deputy 

 Inspector in neighborhoods, whose 

 business is of importance to them, 

 those men can be depended upon to 

 hunt it in the neighborhood and to con- 

 vince people whom they visit who have 

 the disease of the necessity of de- 

 stroying it, simply by asking the neigh- 

 bor to allow you to look at his bees and 

 calling attention to the rotten brood. 

 No man who has any sense at all, no 

 matter whether he knows everything 

 (and he is sure to find out he didn't 

 know as much as he thought he did) — 

 if he finds he has the disease, but what 

 will be anxious to have it cleaned up, 

 as anxious as you are, unless they are 

 fools. As a rule among bee-keepers 

 we have sensible men. 



The men appointed should be men 

 who are interested in seeing the dis- 

 ease disappear in their neighborhood. 



Mr. Kildow: — W^e have to go at our 

 neighbors easily, so they will not take 

 offense. 



President Baxter — That depends up- 

 on circumstances. We had a case, you 

 will probably remember, in our neigh- 



