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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE 



borhood, a half mile from m? a man 

 had a half dozen colonies of bees and 

 I detected foul brood, American, in tha 

 worst form. I sent for Mr. Kildow; 

 right away he came there and exam- 

 ined them and found they were very 

 bad; he left written instructions ac- 

 cording to law; told him Avhat to do, 

 and I didn't rest until I knew it was 

 done. I went back there in ten days 

 and found that instead of following in- 

 structions he had taken all this dead 

 brood and squeezed it up in a ball and 

 put it in the fork of a peach tree. I 

 telegraphed the Foul Brood Inspector 

 to come at once; he came and we went 

 in there and destroyed every colony he 

 had and threatened to put him through. 



There is a $50 fine for that, and he 

 got scared and never repeated it; it is 

 good to notify them beforehand so as 

 not to run that risk. Fortunately, foul 

 brood did not spread from that. If it 

 Jjad been a season of drought we would 

 have been up against it. He did this 

 for spite work. 



Mr. Mandle — This man I have in 

 mind, I believe if he knew he had foul 

 brood and could spread it and give us 

 other fellows a good dose of it he would 

 do it. 



Mr. Diebold — Some years ago, I 

 don't know how long, Mr. Kildow came 

 up to my place. I had just cleaned up 

 the best I knew how. He said: "How 

 about your neighbors?" I said to him 

 that "my neighbor down here has seven 

 or eight or nine colonies." Mr. Kildow 

 dent down there and I asked for the 

 man; his wife said he was out of town; 

 I told her the Foul Brood Inspector was 

 there and would like to look at the 

 bees; she said her husband objected. 



I talked to her and told her we would 

 like to have Mr. Kildow inspect one 

 hive, and she finally consented and we 

 found infection. 



Mr. Pyles — I think Mr. Kildow will 

 bear me in this statement, when I say 

 that most of the inspection work done 

 in our immediate vicinity was done 

 long before we got a dollar for inspec- 

 tion work; we did that work for our- 

 selves, and every bee-keeper who is 

 interested in his community, if he has 

 influence with his neighbors, will be 

 able to do as much and more work 

 without the appointment. 



If you send a man in his own locality 

 to inspect his neighbor's bees and he 



goes out showing his teeth, he will 

 have to show his teeth all the way 

 through; he does not dare to make 

 trouble because they can get even with 

 him, and they will do it. If a man is 

 a stranger, some one they do not know, 

 he will be able to go in and get along 

 peacefully. They can't get even with 

 him and it is his business to get along 

 peaceably or he will lose his job. We 

 cannot get into trouble everywhere we 

 go or Mr. Kildow would not appoint us. 

 It is ours and Mr. Kildow's business to 

 get along. A man working in his com- 

 munity will do better without having 

 authority as deputy than he will with 

 it, among his neighbors. 



President Baxter — That point is well 

 taken in most instances — sometimes 

 you have got to show your power and 

 use it. 



Mr. Hawkins — We had a good deal 

 of foul brood up where I live this 

 spring. The Inspector came up there 

 and inspected several apiaries and 

 found the disease, and I personally 

 helped about a half dozen different 

 bee-keepers that were close enough to 

 me, so that my bees could rob, free of 

 charge, and was glad to do it. I think 

 every bee-keeper should be willing to 

 turn out and help his neighbor clean 

 up foul brood. The fellow who cannot 

 get out and help a neighbor should not 

 have any bees. 



Those men were glad enough to clean 

 up as soon as they found out something 

 was wrong, and they all did it as soon 

 as they learned how. 



It was as much to my advantage to 

 have them clean up as their own. 



It is just as Mr. Kildow says — there 

 are times when it takes authority to 

 do anything. 



. "We had one man who was ill at the 

 time the inspection was made; he was 

 taken down south, to Hot Springs, 

 Arkansas. 



I went to his place two or three dif- 

 ferent times and tQok care of the dis- 

 eased colonies, and did all kinds of 

 work around there. He had been good 

 to me in the past, and I did not expect 

 any pay — and now within the last 

 couple of weeks, since he has returned 

 home, he has accused me of being in 

 conspiracy with the Foul Brood In- 

 spector, to beat him out of his bees and 

 take lioney off his place. 



