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we would have had ten tiires the- result 

 to show that we had. When I was making 

 my final report to the Government, I 

 made a recommendation that the law be 

 changed. If they can give a man an 

 intelligent idea of what the disease is, then 

 the inspector can come back with the 

 hope of cleaning it up, but you have to 

 have more than three or four thousand 

 dollars in a State like Illinois or 5-ou 

 would get nowhere in a thousand years. 



Mr. Kildow — The argument is perfectly 

 good, the trouble is, we cannot get the 

 parties to come to these bee meetings. 

 We tried this same thing of holding meet- 

 ings over this State and it was absolutely 

 impossible to get them. They promised 

 to come, "Yes. we will be there on that 

 day." We would come there that day 

 and they were not there. You cannot 

 force them to come to the meetings. You 

 can get some people interested and teach 

 them someting, but the ones that you need 

 to teach most are the on«B that hang back 

 in the harness and you cannot force them. 

 They know they ought to be there, too, 

 and yet they will not come. 



Mr. Dadant — There is one satisfaction, 

 I don't know whether w^e ought to call it 

 satisfaction, but there is an ending to this 

 that to a certain extent is satisfactory to 

 the practical bee-keeper. The fellow who 

 will not come, the fellow who will not do 

 anything, does not know how to do any- 

 thing, sooner or later will be cleaned out 

 of the "business. I can give you one in- 

 stance. A man near us had 75 colonies 

 of bees, we warned him over and over, but 

 never thought of going to see his bees, 

 because we were sure he knew and would 

 not do it. At the end of three years he 

 complained his bees were dying. Our boys 

 went to look at the apiary and they bought 

 the 75 colonies for $40. 



Mr. Pellett — They paid too much. 



Mr. Dadant — No, because they wanted 

 to have them out of the way. they wanted 

 to clean them out. They paid $40 for the 

 75 colonies, hives and all, and they cleaned 

 them out. That is what is coming to the 

 man who will not work. Sooner or later 

 the fellow who takes care of his bees is 

 going to be on top and the other fellow 

 will be down and out. 



The President — Well, this question has 

 been pretty well thrashed out and I be- 

 lieve in Mr. Pellett's idea of education. 



Mr. Pellett — It will have to be combined 

 with the other. 



The President — The two have to go 

 hand in hand. As far as the powers of 

 the inspector are concerned, the law is 

 very plain. The Civil Service Law was 



enacted long before our foul brood law, 

 and our foul brood law gives the inspector 

 the special right of appointing deputies in 

 any locality where he sees fit, where he 

 needs help, and I believe that that will 

 stand under the law and, if I have been 

 correctly informed, the inspectors of 

 nuseries are not tied down by the Civil 

 Service Commission and I do not see why 

 the foul brood inspector should be. I have 

 been attending these societies up and down 

 in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri for the last 

 forty years, horticultural meetings and 

 bee-keepers meetings, and it is hard, very 

 hard, to i et a crowd. The verj^ man that 

 j'ou want at these meetings is the man that 

 stays away. The man who ought to have 

 the the information is the man who does 

 not come to receive it, and I do not know 

 of anything which will reach him except 

 this w'ork that they have started witnin 

 the last few years, that this young man is 

 now representing here in Illinois. That is 

 the only way to get results. 



The Secretarj' — Do you know, Mr. Presi- 

 dent, that the State Horticultural Society 

 is free to appoint their inspector? 



The President — No, sir, Mr. Forbes is. 



The Secretary — They are not liable to 

 the board 



The President — They are not liable to 

 the civil service then, as I understand it. 

 I have got Mr. Forbes' word for it. 



IVfy. Kildow — I do not think I have 

 authority to appoint anybody outside of 

 what the State gives me. I had a case 

 where one of my old deputies was left 

 out because up there in his locality they 

 had possibly a little harder examination 

 than he could pass. I did not suppose 

 they had taken him off the list and I had 

 some work for him to do in that part of 

 the State and I sent him to go without 

 notifying the State authorities that I 

 wanted him, and without their sanctioning 

 the appointment, so when I sent in his 

 voucher they sent word back that he was 

 not on the pay roll and I had to go to work 

 and fix a whole lot of papers. 



The President — Here is what the law 

 says, that the Governor shall appoint a 

 State Inspector of Apiaries, he shall hold 

 his office for the term of two yeare and 

 until his successor shall have appointed, 

 to carry on the inspection under his super- 

 vision. That is plain enough. 



Mr Kildow — When the civil service men 

 come and tell you you have got to do 

 something else what are you going to do? 



The President — Tell him to show you 

 authorities. 



Mr. Kildow — I have to abide by what 

 they tell me or get into trouble. 



