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place made vacant for it while arrang- 

 ing the frames of brood. Next I put 

 on the sections, and, having all com- 

 plete, the colony was moved to a new 

 stand and this prepared hive set in its 

 place. Thus I had a laying queen and 

 enough of her own bees to protect her, 

 together with a hive filled with combs 

 of brood and all the field-bees from the 

 removel colony. 



In a few days this colony would be 

 entering the sections, and such gen- 

 erally made fully as good colonies for 

 storing section honey as any I had in 

 the whole apiary. The loss of bees to 

 the removed colony put a stop to all 

 ideas of swarming, and in about a 

 week they had so regained their loss 

 that they were ready to continue work 

 in the sections again. 



It will be s.-L-n that my aim was, in 

 using these .-veral plans, to get all the 

 colonies strong,' enough to work in the 

 sections during the best of the harvest 

 to advantagi. , and still have none of 

 them desire to swarm right in the 

 height of the best How of nectar. And 

 I doubt if thire is a much better way 

 of working for section honey to-day, 

 where the bcc-keeper has only his one 

 home yard, and the time to attend to 

 the natural swarms which may issue 

 up to the time he has decided that 

 further swarming will result in a re- 

 duced yield of section honey. But 

 where a person is running one or more 

 out-apiaries, then some plan of arti- 

 ficial swarming must be adopted, or 

 lo.^s by swarming will occur. 



Borodino, N. Y. 



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Convention 

 Lprocccdings 



Report of the Chlcago^Northwestern 



Bee-Keepers' Association, held in 



Chicago, Wednesday and 



Thursday, Dec. 5 



and 6, 1906 



(Continued from pag'e 48) } 



Foul Brood Law. 



"Is there a foul brood law framed to 

 send to the legislature this term?" 



Pres. York — I suppose that means the 

 Illinois legislature, or it may perhaps 

 mean any other State that has a meet- 

 ing of the legislature the coming winter. 



Mr. Moore — The President of the 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 Secretary and the Treasurer, are an ex- 

 ecutive committee who have charge of 

 this, and they, in conjunction with some 

 of their friends who are in close touch 

 with politicians at Springfield, get up 

 the foul brood law — or the bee-keepers' 

 law, more correctly speaking — ■ and have 

 it introduced by some of their friends in 

 both the House and the Senate. I don't 

 know definitely what has been done. 



Pres. York — I don't think that is an 

 answer to the question, Mr. Moore. The 

 question is : Is there a foul brood law 

 now framed to present to the legisla- 

 ture? 



Mr. Moore — I do not know of any- 

 thing being done, but I know that Mes- 

 srs. Smith, Stone and Becker have at- 

 tended to it heretofore and probably 

 will attend to it in the future. 



Pres. York — The committee of this 

 Association is Mr. Dadant, Mr. Wil- 

 cox, and Mr. McCain. 



Mr. Wilcox — No member of the com- 

 mittee has said anything to me about 

 it. I have not heard anything about it 

 from any other source, or done anything 

 about it myself, and I rather doubt the 

 propriety, myself, of making any ap- 

 plication to the Illinois legislature. I 



might join with the Illinois members, 

 but I do not think the legislature of 

 one State is in the habit of listening 

 very much to people from other States, 

 unless concerning some matter in which 

 they are particularly interested. 



A Member — You will remember, at 

 the last meeting, we came to the conclu- 

 sion that this matter better be done by 

 the Illinois State Association, and this 

 committee was appointed to work with 

 them. 



Pres. York — I think we ought always 

 to remember that this organization cov- 

 ers a number of States, and that we 

 ought not to help one State more than 

 another represented here. Perhaps 

 hereafter it will not be necessary for 

 us to have a foul brood committee. We 

 decided not to join the Illinois State 

 as a body, and of course all of us will 

 not be members hereafter; but there 

 will be individual members that live in 

 Illinois. So unless this body moves 

 to have a committee appointed, or con- 

 tinues the present foul brood committee, 

 I suppose it will not be continued. What- 

 ever a majority of this Association says, 

 of course, will be done, because we de- 

 cide things by a majority vote. Now is 

 there anything else on the question? 



Mr. Moore^I believe it is best to 

 take some action on the foul brood 

 committee. I think the committee 

 would better make a report and be dis- 

 charged. I du not think any good can 

 come of its further continuance. I 

 would advocate, however, that as indi- 

 viduals we write letters, every one of 

 us, to the in. nibers of the legislature in 

 favor of the law that is introduced, be- 

 cause it is nj doubt better to have a 

 half loaf tlm nothing, and the thou- 

 sand dollar, the_ legislature gives the 

 bee-keepers in this State will do them 

 good. 



Dr. Mill' r — I believe Mr. Moore has 



the right view, and, in accordance with 

 that view, I move that the foul brood 

 committe of this society be discharged, 

 with thanks. 



The motion was seconded and car- 

 ried. 



It was moved, seconded and carried, 

 that the President appoint a -committee 

 of three on resolutions. 



Pres. York — I appoint Mr. Hutchin- 

 son, Mr. Abbott and Mr. Whitney as 

 a Committee on Resolutions, to report 

 tomorrow. 



Foul Brood. 



"If foul brood is not foul brood, then 

 what is it?" 



Mr. Taylor — Something else. [Laugh- 

 ter.] 



Mr. France — I imagine what conflicts 

 here is the fact that the Department 

 of Agriculture at Washington has come 

 against this proposition. What has been 

 known out here as foul brood is en- 

 tirely a different disease from that which 

 has been commonly known as black 

 brood in New York State, and those 

 two have conflicted, and the Government 

 has been taking this matter up and de- 

 cided to call both "foul brood," but to 

 add an adjective to it, so that what is 

 known through our country here large- 

 ly as foul brood will be called "Ameri- 

 can foul brood," and the so-called New 

 York black brood will be called "Euro- 

 pean foul brood." Unless this change 

 was made, the laws now in existence in 

 nearly all the States that we have upon 

 foul brood would have to be modified; 

 we have gone through with hard work 

 enough to get it, and to have to do it 

 over again would mean a good deal. 

 So the Department has arranged it 

 in that way. We have the two distinct 

 diseases. If any of you have not read 

 carefully Bulletin 79 from the Depart- 

 ment on "Brood-Diseases" — on both 

 European and American foul brood — I 

 have asked that it be put in this year's 

 Annual Report of the National, where 

 you will have it on file and can read it. 



Mr. Moore — That is my question. If 

 foul brood is not foul brood, then what 

 is it? If I can read correctly, it says 

 that the Bacillus alvei is not found in 

 foul Jbrood, or American foul brood, to 

 use this nomenclature. If that is true, 

 what becomes of Howard and other 

 scientists who say that the Bacillus alvei 

 was the characteristic? We have not 

 heard from them. We have not heard 

 the last word. Have they all been mis- 

 taken? and what has become of the 

 American foul brood, or the old-fash- 

 ioned foul brood, as we know it? 



Mr. France— In the demonstrations 

 that Dr. White, from Washington made, 

 there was this marked difference: Our 

 American foul brood would not develop 

 on the same cultures as the European 

 foul brood, showing a decided difference 

 between the two. The New York black 

 brood or European would develop nicely 

 upon beef as a basis, whereas our other 

 will die — make no attempt to live. 



Mr. Moore— We have been accus- 

 tomed to thinking of Bacillus alvei as- 

 the germ of foul brood. Shall we think 

 of Bacillus alvei as the basis of black 

 brood ? 



A Member — Exactly. 



Mr. Moore— What takes the place in 



