ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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before I start, are in shape to handle 

 rapidly; the idea is to get the bees off 

 the comb as quickly as possible. 



President France — There is one thing 

 .1 would like to inquire: Are these 

 committees ready to make reports — 

 the Committee on Resolutions; and the 

 Committee of Auditing? 



REPORT OF AUDITING COM- 

 MITTEE. 



We, the undersigned Committee, 

 have examined the books and found 

 them correct. Balance on hand, De- 

 cember 18th, 1915, $62.60. 



C. F. KANNENBERG, 

 AARON COPPIN, 

 J. C. WHEELER, 



Committee, 



While this committee is busy: We 

 have heard a great deal of talk on foul 

 brood; we have had expressions from 

 some of the members as to what con- 

 stitutes foul brood, and the different 

 kinds of treatment. 



I have had experience in foul brood. 

 I have had it twice and have been suc- 

 cessful in my treatment of it. I do 

 not want to give my experience when 

 we have our President here who is well 

 versed in the treatment of foul brood. 

 I would like for you, Mr. President, to 

 tell the members how to treat foul 

 brood, so that, if they have foul brood, 

 they will know how to treat it; and 

 they know, when hearing from you, 

 they are listening to some one who 

 knows what he is talking about. 



President France — European or 

 American, or both ? 



A member — Any kind of foul brood. 



President France — You have had the 

 difference between European and 

 American described. Now as for 

 treatment: When we see those pin 

 holes, those sunken cappings, that ropy 

 condition, and we get that peculiar 

 odor, I decide I have American foul 

 brood. 



I would say: Find this out as early 

 in the season, in the brood-rearing 

 season as you can. Look for it — but I 

 hope you never find it. But, in case 

 you do, if it is only a few cells, then 

 prepare a clean hive with full sheets 

 of foundation, and if you have an ex- 

 tracting comb that has not much brood 

 in it, put that in the center and place 

 full sheets on either side. 



Get your bees as quietly as you can 

 from the infected combs, into a clean 



hive. And one of the poorest methods 

 is to shake them. 



Mr. Baldridge's plan: Reverse that 

 hive for a time; the field bees will go 

 out the next day to work, and, return- 

 ing, go back to the old stand into a 

 clean hive. 



Remove the queen from the infected 

 hive and put her in the clean hive, and 

 you practically have all the bees in a 

 clean hive. 



I would say: Let us get all those 

 bees out of the infected hive into a 

 clean hive. 



The chances are that any infected 

 bees, or bees from an infected hive, 

 are all into the clean hive. Some of 

 them have carried infected honey; 

 they will deposit a large percentage 

 of it in the dry comb in the center. 



If you can, the next day, open that 

 hive and gently remove this one conib, 

 and insert in its place a sheet of 

 foundation, getting the bees from that 

 one comb, you ought to be through 

 with it. 



But don't think the old infected hive 

 is going to be where the bees will see 

 it again. We are liable to say: "I 

 would like to save that." Look out — 

 you are standing in your own light. 

 Hives are not bee tight. 



The principle of treating American 

 foul brood is to take away all the in- 

 fection. Give them clean quarters; 

 about twenty-four hours afterwards 

 take away any comb they have had for 

 the deposit of some of that. 



When it comes to the treatment of 

 this other — European — If it is only here 

 and there an occasional cell of it show- 

 ing in your colonies that are fairly 

 good and strong: 



Take aw9.y their queen. Inside of 

 seven to nine days, remove all queen 

 cells; and during this time you have 

 either queens from your very best 

 stock that is not infected, or from out 

 of your own yard, a good queen on the 

 way coming, that you can introduce 

 into that hive. 



It is not necessary to remove all of 

 the combs. You will help colonies th.at 

 are really bad with infection to take out 

 those center combs. I would remove 

 those; I would not ask the bees to be 

 burdened with so much work. 



Mr. Wheeler — What about shaking — 

 for European foul brood — is that suc- 

 cessful, into empty hives? 



President France^No, I think not; 



