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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 19, 1903. 



[ Convention Proceedings J 



THE LOS ANGELES CONVENTION. 



Report of the Proceeding's of the 34th Annual 



Meeting" of the National Bee-Keepers' 



Association, Held at Los Angeles, 



Calif., Aug-. 18, 19 and 20, 



1903. 



(Continued from pa^e 727.) 



THIRD DAY— Thursday Morning Session. 



This session opened with Pres. Hutchinson in the chair. 

 Prayer was offered by Dr. Miller. 



Mr. N. E. France then addressed the convention on 



THE ERADICATION OF FOUL BROOD. 



This subject of foul brood is one that has been discussed 

 through our papers over and over again, and the appearance 

 of the disease, together with its serious effects, has been 

 described repeatedly, until it seems almost useless to rehash 



have some remedy by which we could legislate to make these 

 movements all National in their character. I hope the day 

 is coming when the helping hand of the National Associa- 

 tion can reach out and help sister States to get this legisla- 

 tion. During the little time I have been acting as General 

 Manager, I have realized the necessity of this important 

 part of the work. 



But to come to the individual work of foul brood, I find 

 bee-keepers in my own State (I will not say this of others) 

 who are readers of two, some of them of three, bee-papers, 

 and who are practical bee-keepers, and are up to date ; but 

 when you come to converse upon the subject of foul brood 

 with these parties, they say they have not had experience, 

 they have not posted themselves upon this branch of the 

 i business. When it gets into their yard it gets a good foot- 

 hold before they become interested. Then they begin to 

 go over their literature and look up the subject, having 

 failed, unfortunately, to put the information into their 

 heads, in which case they would have recognized the dis- 

 ease when it made its first appearance, and the serious re- 

 sults which followed might have been avoided. To know it 

 at the first glimpse is very important ; to know what to do 

 with it coipes later on. 



Foul.ljrood has been described over and over again, 

 and I hardly know whether it is worth while to take the 

 valuable time of this convention to go into that here, 

 whether it is desirable to describe it so as to know it without 

 any guessing. I have been called 300 miles to see a case of 

 pickled brood, when they insisted they had foul brood in 

 the yard, and how glad I was to tell them there was no foul 



■E ll'MIOATINQ DISEASED 



these conditions. But I do think the National Association 

 could help to get legislation on this subject. It looks dis- 

 couraging ; I realize it, at least, in Wisconsin ; Mr. Hutch- 

 inson realizes it in Michigan. Inspectors in other States 

 realize that they should go into neighboring States to see 

 that the disease is treated when the neighboring State has 

 no legislation on the subject, but continues to propagate 

 the disease and send it over to us. Therefore, we ought to 



brood in the yard I But if they had read the literature on 

 the subject there would have been no necessity for me to 

 take such a trip. So I feel that one part of this subject 

 needs to be impressed. To begin with, what causes foul 

 brood ? I will say, candidly, I do not know. Every case I 

 come in contact with in my own State I back-track history, 

 and, almost every time, it has been contagious through 

 the bee-keeper's management in some way. There has 



