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ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPBRS' ASSOCIATION. 



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The Secretary — ^he may be a man that 

 we could not trust. 



Mr. Kildow — I might request some man 

 to go into your bee yard, some neighbor, 

 and may be you will request him to get 

 out. 



The President — Then I am culpable, 1 

 have not done the work and it is the State 

 Deputy Inspector's duty to come back and . 

 show that I am culpable. 



Mr. Kildow — We are willing to come 

 back when anybody wants us to, but if 

 we come back any time or all times, 

 whether there is anything there or not, 

 we will soon use up our money, and the 

 fellows that did want us to come back will 

 have to wait until we get a new appropria- 

 tion. Inspectors are willing to go any- 

 where, but they cannot go unless they have 

 the money. 



The President — ^Then would be a good 

 time to go to the Legislature and say, 

 "We need more money." We would 

 have to prove to them that it was neces- 

 sary to do it and we will get it. 



Mr. Kildow — We have hardly enough 

 money to run us until the last of July. 



The President — That was on account of 

 the Legislature passing bills not according 

 to the law. 



Mr. Kildow — ^We will use up our whole 

 appropriation this time, the whole thing. 



The President — ^Because you have been 

 using some of this appropriation for last 

 year's work. 



Mr. Kildow — No, I started on this 

 appropriation the first part of July. I 

 did have a little left over from last year. 



The Secretary — ^They will not allow 

 this on the next year. 



The President — ^Yes, they will. 



The Secretary — If it is not used by the 

 let of July it reverts back to the State. 



Di'. Baxter — Money appropriated this 

 year, if there is any over next July, goes 

 back into the State funds. 



The Secretary — It does not go back until 

 the 30th of September. 



Dr. Baxter — It does not make any dif- 

 ference, you cannot draw it, absolutely. 



The President — That is according to a 

 new law passed this last year. 



The Secretary — It has to be drawn out. 



The President — The appropriation is 

 made for two years. 



Dr. Baxter — It specifies how much per 

 year. 



Mr. Kildow — They changed things con- 

 siderably. If we had not been very care- 

 ful with our money we would not have 

 had enough to pay for what we did. 



Mr. Dadant — This matter of the destruc- 

 tion of foul brood is so new that we are 



like a lot of children, we do not know how 

 to get at it. We have a little bit of money 

 to do a great big work. We have a State 

 that is 500 miles from north to south and 

 250 to 300 miles across. We have 102 

 counties and we have, how many deputies? 



Mr. Kildow— I used 12 a little while, 7 

 deputies did most of the work. 



Mr. Dadant^^Twelve deputies, that 

 makes about nine counties for each deputy. 

 Well, you all know how much time it will 

 take to go through nine counties to make 

 sure of everything. Until we have more 

 money we will have to depend a great deal 

 on education and I believe the inspector 

 is doing the best, he can with the money, 

 making it go as far as he can. I have had 

 letters from parties wanting to know if we 

 had any inspector and if we did, why he 

 didn't come around. Well, if the in- 

 spector was to find every bee-keeper, go 

 to him, there would have to be about 50 

 of him. After he has given instructions 

 and shown the people the dangers, ex- 

 plained everything to them, it seems to me 

 that until we are better fixed we ought to 

 rely on them to clean it. However, if 

 there are people in the vicinity of a diseased 

 apiary who are more interested in it, it 

 would be a good thing to inform them, 

 and if they are not acting as deputies, they 

 can at least see whether the disease has 

 been cured or not, whether the man is 

 careful or careless. 



Our President has called attention to 

 the fact that neighbors might be interested. 

 In our neighborhood there was one man 

 who exposed foul brood that had been 

 among his bees, near Mr. Baxter's apiary, 

 although they did not catch the disease, 

 they were in great risk. However, we 

 were watching the matter carefully. I 

 hope every bee-keeper who is present will 

 advise his neighbors and only in extreme 

 need send for the inspector, because edu- 

 cation has a great deal more to do than 

 compulsion. Any man who has bees, if 

 he has any sense at all, is interested in 

 destroying the disease. It is only if he is 

 doing it for spite, if he is keeping bees just 

 simply to injure his neighbors, that he 

 may do harm, and I take it there are very 

 few such men in the country. So that 

 after all, if we are willing and do not 

 criticize too much and are active ourselves 

 and notify the inspector whenever there 

 is disease, perhapjs until we get a larger 

 appropriation we can get along. At any 

 rate, we can decrease the disease. We are 

 decreasing it individually, but we are far 

 from the end. But it is a beginning and 

 it is only a few years back when there was 

 no in.spection, no State aid. The man who 



