34 



SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT, 1917. 



Date. 



Remarks. 



November, 1916 and Feb- 

 niary, 1917 



November, 1916 and Feb- 

 ruary, 1917 



March, 1917 



March, 1917 



April, 1917 



May,1917 



May, 1917 



June, 1917 



June, 1917 



July,1917 



July, 1917 



August, 1917 



August, 1917 



September, 1917 



September, 1917 



Total 



Grand total . 



14 



213 

 2,491 



382 

 3,096 



228 

 2.280 

 2,463 

 2,719 



300 



14,186 



% 



7 



120 



6 



145 



11 



135 



48 



150 



§ 

 21 



644 



3 



19 



3 



26 



26 

 17 

 21 



124 



13 

 13 



8 



68 



1 



8 



3 



12 



56 



10 

 12 



45i 

 9 



53i 



14 



50i 

 25 

 47 



13 



15 



309i 



$13.92 



2.08 

 14.03 

 35.20 

 18.90 

 25.22 

 56.72 



8.70 

 81.69 

 24.39 

 81.88 

 66.14 

 89.02 

 17.53 

 14.77 



S514.99 



$20.22 



3.00 



3.27 



1.86 

 "i'.25 



4.50 



'i!66 



$70.35 



i 36.00 



4.00 

 20.00 



40.00 



48.00 



1S2.00 



36.00 



214.00 



56.00 



202.00 



100.00 



188.00 



52.00 



60.00 



$1,238.00 



$1,823.34 



By inspector. 



By deputy. 

 By inspector 

 To Frank Higgins. 

 By inspector 

 By inspector. 

 By deputies. 

 By inspector 

 By deputies. 

 By inspector 

 By deputies. 

 By inspector. 

 By deputies. 

 By inspector. 

 By deputies. 



* Convention work . ] 



t Convention at Mt. Carmel. [ 



i To instruct deputies. 1 

 I Instruction work at State Fair. 



instruct him so that he can tell the ne.xt 

 time the disease comes to his yard and he 

 is supposed to work along that line and 

 clean up. We cannot be with him all the 

 time, or in his yard. He must learn the 

 thing himself or quit the business. 



Mr. Bowen — Some times bee men are 

 more consceintious than other people and 

 more careful and yet, while I hate to inti- 

 mate it, sometimes the thing needs watch- 

 ing and I think it is the inspector's business 

 to watch them. 



Mr. Kildow — That is all right too, but 

 we cannot go back. We have not money 

 enough to go back very often. The in- 

 spector must use his judgment a great 

 deal. If the man has the disease and he 

 thinks there is a possibility of the man 

 not doing right, the chances are that the 

 inspector will go back there again and see 

 that he has done it. But if he has confi- 

 dence in the man, he will not go back 

 unless he is quite sure that it is necessary. 



Mr. Bowen — I know that we have had a 

 deputy inspector with us and of course he 

 did as well as he could, but unless he comes 

 back he does not know that those parties 

 have done the work as it should have 

 been done. 



Mr. Kildow — You have to take the 

 man's word for it. ; 



The President — Mr. Kildow, I am not 

 satisfied with that kind of inspection and 

 I do not approve of it all. I believe it is 



the duty of the State Inspector to use 

 some means, either go himself, or his 

 deputies, to be sure that those apiaries are 

 cleaned up. Take it up at our place, if 

 we had been dependent upon a report of 

 that kind, we would have had thousands 

 all over Hancock County. Instead of 

 trying to clean up one man just went to 

 work and did what he could to spread the 

 disease as much as possible. 



Mr. Kildow — All men are not like that. 



The President — I would not take any 

 man's word unless I knew that he is a man 

 to be trusted. That is the way I look at it . 



Mr. Kildow — There is only one of two 

 things about it. If the Association, or 

 if the State wants us to go back, all right 

 and good, if they furnish us the money, 

 but unless they furnish the money we 

 cannot do it. 



The President — That may be, but we 

 will find some means. You can go into 

 a locality and find foul brood and you can 

 authorize the man to clean it up according 

 to law and you can deputize or you can 

 request some bee-keeper near by to see 

 that it is done and report to you whether 

 it has been done or not. 



Mr. Kildow — No, I cannot deputize 

 anybody. 



The President — You do not have to 

 deputize him, if you request him to do it 

 he will do it, nine times out of ten. 



