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level-headed friends in this convention who appreciate the plain 

 truth as I have expressed it, who having long ago pulled the wool 

 from their eyes, realize that bees and honey cannot be placed on a 

 sound financial basis until honey is pushed, and that no article can 

 be pushed unless the pusher or salesman is paid. I ask you all to 

 name five foods which are manufactured today and sell at lower 

 relative prices, value compared, than honey at 25 cents per pound. 



Thorough Inspection of Apiaries vs. Educating and 

 Making Every Bee-Keeper an Inspector 



If the Country is Ever Rid of Foulbrood, It Will Be by The 



Bee-Keeper With the Help of the Inspectors. 



By F. W. LESSER. 



'^^^ .k-iAT article of Wm. P. Fritz in the February Review on 

 \^j "Thorough Inspection of Apiaries" should not pass without 

 some criticism. 



He gives the New York inspectors a drubbing Avhich they do 

 not deserve. He says "they have a fat time of it,"' and thinks they 

 should personally inspect every hive and frame in a yard. How 

 many towns, to say nothing of counties, would an inspector cover 

 in a season doing that? They did do it when European foul brood 

 first started, but soon had to quit as they could not cover the ground. 

 Besides, a good inspector such as we have does not have to look at 

 every frame in a hive. He can usually pick out the right frame 

 the first time. 



Inspection in this state has advanced from the primitive, in- 

 efifectual way of an inspector doing the curing to the better way of 

 educating the bee-keeper to do it and making every hec-kccper an 

 inspector. If the bee-keeper is not man enough to cure his own 

 bees or keep the disease under control, the state can never effectually 

 do it for him, except by burning him out, which they do occasionally. 



As for our inspectors having a cinch, if friend Fritz thinks that 

 continual traveling on railroads and in buggies, often Sundays, and 

 endeavoring to educate all sorts of men into bee-keepers is a snap, 

 I fail to agree with him. That kind of work takes more nerve- 

 energy than going around with a "horse and camping outfit." 



Our inspectors are broadminded men with years of bee-keeping 

 and inspecting experience. I admit that they have more ground to 

 cover than they can properly cover, but that is not their fault. 



When we talk of "ridding the country of foul-brood," that is 

 a pretty big subject and it looks to me that if ever accomplished, 

 it will be done by the bee-keepers with the help of the inspectors. 



