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A. Selser, in writing me under date of December loth, stated tliat the 

 committee called on Secretary Wilson the l:?th, after a meeting- was 

 held in the parlors of the St. James Hotel, and presented their 

 request. Later that request was presented in writing, and is given 

 herewith. The committee also passed a resolution urging the Na- 

 tional to hold its next convention in Washington, believing that by 

 so doing greater pressure can be brought to bear in the interests of 

 national legislation for bee-keepers. The letter sent Secretary Wil- 

 son reads as follows : 



December 13, 1911. 

 Honorable Jas. Wilson, Sec. of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Honored Sir: — 



In response to your request of the Legislative Committee of the 

 National Bee Keepers' Association, that visited you on the twelfth 

 inst., that we repeat in writing our request, that you so kindly prom- 

 ised to do what you could to aid us in. In view of the fact that the 

 various states are not issuing bulletins and disseminating knowledge 

 on the subject, it becomes necessary for us to make the special appeal 

 to the Federal Government. 



First — That you instruct your department to send the Farmers' 

 Bulletin, 442, on Foul Brood to every farmer who keeps bees in the 

 I'uited States, there being a decrease largely on account of this dis- 

 ease of nearly a million hives of bees since last census, that the 

 danger of spread in healthy locations, makes it necessary to have 

 ever}' bee keeper informed of the symptoms, and the treatment of 

 the disease. 



Second — That you also instruct yottr department to issue a 

 statement to all county papers, warning the bee keepers of the dan- 

 ger of the disease, and that they could have a bulletin for the ask- 

 ing, that would be helpful to them, as well as their neighbor bee- 

 keepers. 



Third — That your department be allowed to send out an ad- 

 vanced card to the bee-keepers, enlightening them as to the nature 

 of the disease and the bulletin published. 



Fourth — That your department issue a Farmers" Bulletin stat- 

 ing the relation of bees to horticulture, and the danger of spraying 

 fruit trees while in bloom, as being fatal to the bees, which are so 

 essential to them. 



Fiftli — That your department issue a Farmers' Bulletin giving 

 the nutritious value of honey as a food, and some receipts as to its 

 present unknown uses in food preparation, as very helpful to the 

 citizens of the L'nited States in general. 



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