VOL. LX— NO. 8 



HAMILTON, ILL., AUGUST, 1920 



MONTHLY, $1.00 A YFAR 



EFFECTIVE INSPECTION 



How Indiana Beekeepers Are Co-operating With the State Inspection Service 



in the Eradication of Foulbrood 



THE combination of inspection 

 work with educational service 

 offers the best solution of the 

 disease problem. The writer has long 

 been an advocate of educational 

 methods. It was accordingly a great 

 pleasure to join the automobile tour 

 of the Vigo County Beekeepers' As- 

 sociation the first week in June. The 

 Vigo County fellows are a bunch of 

 live wires. The President, William 

 A. Hunter, was for years a carriage 

 manufacturer, but when he caught 

 the bee fever he got it so bad that 

 he decided to give up manufacturing 

 for honey production. Frank Teel, 

 the Vice President, is a retired 

 banker, who takes beekeeping seri- 

 ously. The Secretary, Q. O. Rainbolt, 

 is one of the liveliest county agents 

 that the writer has run up against. 



Vigo County is liberally sprinkled 

 with both American and European 

 foulbrood. To keep bees on a com- 

 mercial scale, under such conditions, 

 is a strenuous game, and the local 

 beekeepers are determined to eradi- 

 cate foulbrood, not only from Vigo 

 County, but from surrounding coun- 

 ties as well. The beekeeping tour is 

 an annual affair and everybody who 

 owns bees is invited — yes, urged — to 

 go along, and the members see that 

 sufficient cars are provided to carry 

 all who wish to go. If bee owners 

 are not sufficiently interested to go. 

 the beekeepers schedule a stop with 

 them, so they can hardly escape ac- 

 tual contact with the enthusiastic 

 bunch. An effort is made to locate 

 every colony of bees in the entire 

 area covered, and to make sure that 

 they are properly kept. The tour 

 extends over four days, and they are 

 mighty busy days, indeed. The en- 

 tire inspection force, from the State 

 Entomologist's office, was present on 

 this tour, which made fast work pos- 

 sible when an apiary was reached. 



BY FRANK C. PELLETT 



Every colony of bees was examined 

 and either treated or marked for 

 later treatment, as circumstances de- 

 termined. The novice who had never 

 seen bees could get a very good idea 

 of the details of practice during the 

 four days, since every ooeration, from 

 hiving swarms to treating foulbrood. 

 was demonstrated. 



Publicity for the affair was not neg- 

 lected. Mrs. Ann Bowles Wiley, a re- 

 porter for the Terre Haute Tribune, 

 and well-known contributor to other 

 publications, was present on the trip, 

 and a movie operator, Mr. Frank 

 Martin, filmed the principal opera- 

 tions. In case any beekeeper in the 



territory failed to be present or was 

 not visited on the trip, he will see a 

 glowing account in the papers, or the 

 pictures in the local theatre. If any- 

 thing was overlooked in the way of 

 bringing the matter to public atten- 

 tion, the writer was unable to dis- 

 cover what it was. 



The start was rather dismal, for 

 when the time arrived it was rain- 

 ing as though it would never stop. 

 However, a sufficient number to fill 

 several automobiles gathered at the 

 county agents' office, and after wait- 

 ing several hours for- it to stop, 

 started out in the rain. 



The first demonstration was trans- 



The movie man was wide awake 



