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The President — This will be placed on 

 exhibition here and vfe will all examine 

 it, and we will bring it up the first thing 

 in the morning. 



The Secretary — Was there anything said 

 about the cost? 



Dr. Baxter — That depends on what kind 

 of a die we have. Your Committee on 

 Premiums, of which Mr. Dadant is Chair- 

 man, and who will probably report after 

 dinner, will tell you that if you exhibited 

 honey, the man who won first, or second, 

 would be given a certificate, and at the 

 end of three years, if he won the first 

 prize or the second prize three consecu- 

 tive times, would be given a grand medal. 

 I have a certificate here. It is not the 

 plate, it is the arti.5t's drawing and I wish 

 you would look at that and pass your 

 opinion upon it. 



This certificate will be issued to every 

 one tha)t makes an exhibit in this line, of 

 honey, and when they have three of these 

 certificates, then they will hold a medal. 



The President — We will now stand 

 adjourned until half past one this after- 

 noon. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order at 1 :30 

 p. m. by the President. 



Report of A. L. Kildow, State Inspector 

 of Apiaries, Putnam, 111. 



SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT, 1917. 



Last year we inspected 419 apiaries con- 

 taining 7,401 colonies and found 136 

 apiaries having disease. 



This year we visited 644 apiaries con- 

 taining 14,186 colonies and found only 124 

 apiaries diseased. 



This shows that we visited 225 more 

 apiaries containing 6,785 more colonies 

 this year than last and found less disease. 



Out of the 124 apiaries quarantined 

 reports have been received from all but 6 

 that they have cleaned up. 



The President — Did you say that you 

 had additional information about the work 

 of inspection that would be published in 

 the proceedings, in addition to this? 



Mr. Kildow— No, just this. That is all 

 now. If there are any questions you want 

 to ask I will try to answer them. 



Mr. Bowen — I should like to ask the 

 State Inspector how he knows whether 

 they cleared those diseased apiaries. Do 

 you take their report for it, or do you see 

 that it is done, yourself? 



A. L. KILDOW, 

 State Inspector of Apiaries. 



Mr. Kildow— Part of the time I see it 

 myself, and other times we have to take 

 their word foi it until we go there again. 

 If they report they are clean, we do not 

 bother with them unless we hear there is 

 something wrong. If they report that they 

 are clean there is no object in going again 

 and spending money. 



Mr. Bowen— It does not seem to me that 

 that is sufficient proof. 



Mr. Kildow — Then you will have to get 

 the Legislature to appropriate about two 

 or three times the amount of money we 

 have. I have cut down $7r> on this last 

 appropriation. Now, if we are going to 

 go to these yards time and again, back 

 and forth, we have got to have more 

 appropriation. 



Mr. Bowen— Then I do not think the 

 report ought to be that they are clear of 

 disease unless you have some absolute 

 knowledge of it, because I know of some 

 that might have reported that they are 

 clean and vet might not be clear of disease. 



Mr. Kildow— That might be, but still I 

 do not know how you can tell. After he 

 tells you that they are clean, you cannot 

 tell him that they are not unless you have 

 pretty good evidence. We are supposed to 



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