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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE 



their hives; I don't think they them- 

 selves know what the condition is un- 

 til afterwards. 



Doctor Phillips — European samples 

 of foul brood come the first part and 

 American is scattered throughout the 

 entire summer. 



I know that is the way it works. 



June has the highest mark. 



Mr. Stone — Is it possible that in the 

 earlj- part. of the season when work- 

 ing with the bees you can notice Eu- 

 ropean foul brood and that later it is 

 so absorbed? 



Doctor Phillips— European foul brood 

 very frequently^ disappears in the lat- 

 ter part of the season. I don't believe 

 it is safe for an Inspector, for instance, 

 to give a certificate of health to queen 

 breeders — for a queen breeder's yard, 

 after the white clover honey. There 

 might be European foul brood there 

 which the Inspector could not see at 

 all. 



Mr. Diebold — Last year, last season, 

 I had a colony of bees in which I 

 found there was foul brood in it but 

 the season ? was not right to treat 

 them at that time; it was such a 

 drought, weather dry; I concluded to 

 leave them until spring, but marked 

 the hive. ; 



In the e^rly spring I opened the 

 hive and examined them and could not 

 find any foul brood, and even the 

 queen was gone. I gave it a new 

 ■comb with larvae in it and they reared 

 a queen and later on I examined and 

 could not find any'trace of foul brood, 

 and I got some surplus honey from 

 that colony. 



Mr. Pyles — I would say, Mr. Presi- 

 dent, whether he was trying to treat 

 his bees or not, unconsciously he treat- 

 ed them: the colony was treated; then 

 he reared the queen; it does not make 

 any difference whether it was reared 

 in that colony or another. 



I have had this year in my own ex- 

 perience, in a colony that I killed the 

 queen and let them rear a queen early 

 in the season. At first it didn't show 

 European foul brood and later showed 

 plenty of it. 



I am sure that what he did was 

 practically the same as I did, but I 

 took two weeks at it and he did it 

 only once. 



Mr. Kildow — Doctor Phillips, what is 

 the law in regard to shipping queens 

 Irom a foul brood apiary? 



Doctor Phillips — The postal regula- 

 tions require that a queen breeder 

 shall have a certificate from a duly 

 qualified Apiary Inspector that there 

 is no evidence of disease. Certain 

 states do not have any Apiary Inspec- 

 tor. 



Mr. Kildow — We have, I think, one 

 or two breeders in the state who are 

 breeding queens and shipping them 

 throughout the country that have no 

 certificate. 



Doctor Phillips — They can still ship 

 without a certificate if they certify that 

 they use boiled honey. 



Mr. Kildow — I know one party asked 

 me if he could not ship by express. I 

 told him he had better not sell any 

 queens until he got his apiary clean. 



A member — If you wall read the law. 

 It is against the law to either sell or 

 offer for sale either bees or queens 

 or fixtures from a diseased apiary. 



Mr. Dadant — The question is, wheth- 

 er a man can ship queens without a 

 certificate. 



Doctor Phillips — If there is a ques- 

 tion whether the Postoffice regulations 

 are being enforced, the Postmaster will 

 be glad to attend to it. 



Mr. Hawkins — A man who will ship 

 queens out of his yard that are dis- 

 eased is a crook. 



Mr. Coppin — The disease is supposed 

 to be in the honey and not in the bee. 



Mr. Hawkins — A man who ships 

 queens out of his yard if he knows the 

 yard to be discussed is a crook, be- 

 cause you can convey the disease 

 through the bees — through the queen 

 — 'as well as through the honey. 



President Baxter — As I understand 

 the law in this state you can ship bees 

 without a certificate, but, if you do so 

 when you know you are infected with 

 foul brood, you are taking great 

 chances, and if any queen breeder is 

 suspicious of having European foul 

 brood he should be inspected by an 

 Inspector and should be stopped from 

 shipping if he has the disease. 



We will stand adjourned until to- 

 morrow morning at 9 o'clock. 



SECOND MORNING SESSION. 



Meeting called to order by Presi- 

 dent Baxter. 



. President Baxter — The first thing 

 this morning, we will hear from the 



