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TEN^PH ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE 



Mr. Becker — We, as the Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, a year ago, 

 and two years ago, got up a bill, didn't 

 we? That has been presented to the 

 Leg'islature, and was to have been 

 presented again, and the Association, 

 a year ago, appointed a committee of 12 

 to solicit the bee-keepers' assistance 

 in sending out the petition this year, 

 that it might be presented to the 

 Legislature and ask them to pass this 

 law for us. Now, as I understand it, 

 this is virtually a new Bill. 



Pres. Bowen — This goes to the Com- 

 mittee on Resolutions and they can 

 report back. If there is anything in 

 Dr. Bohrer's suggestions it is well 

 enough for the committee to con|ider 

 it. 



Mr. Coppin — ^In the petition we have 

 gotten up, it does not read just like 

 this one; I think there are some 

 things there that would not suit the 

 bee-keepers of the State of Illinois — 

 not in the one you just read. 



Pres. Bowen — ^What do you think 

 about the one we sent out? 



Mr. Coppin — I forget just how that 

 reads. 



Mr. York — I believe I signed one of 

 the blanks approving the Bill that was 

 gotten up about a year ago, but I 

 would not care anything about that if 

 we can get anything better; and if this 

 one, or one like it, is better, then I do 

 not care if I signed a petition for some 

 other one; I am for the better Bill, and 

 I don't think any one who signed the 

 petition last year would object if the 

 Leg'islature would pass a better one. 

 Other States, I believe, are signing the 

 kind of a Bill like Dr. Bohrer's; In- 

 diana and Oklahoma, I think, have 

 passed that Bill, and it is working fine. 

 They are cleaning up foul brood in 

 those States, and what we want is to 

 do that thing. We don't care about 

 any former Bill so long as we can get 

 one that will do the work. 



Mr. iStone — With the Inspector, 

 would this Bill be as good as the other? 



Mr. York— I don't think the Bill I 

 approved would be as good as Dr. 

 Bohrer's Bill, because, I believe when 

 the inspection of Apiaries is put under 

 the Department of Entomology of each 

 State, they have facilities for taking 

 care of the work that local associations 

 have not got at all. They have help 

 there to take care of the records, and 

 when information is brought in, or 



when correspondence is had relative to 

 these matters, they attend to it, and 

 they can appoint a dozen deputy in- 

 spectors, if necessary. For instance: 

 The Entomologist of this State need 

 not go out to see a single colony of 

 bees, but could appoint such men as 

 Mr. Coppin, or Mr. Kildow, to do the 

 work, and you would have a central 

 place, it seems to me, where all this 

 work belongs. It comes under the 

 Department of Entomology, where it 

 should be, and where I believe it be- 

 longs; bees are insects, and I believe 

 Dr. Bohrer's Bill covers that. I do ap- 

 prove of this kind of a Bill, because I 

 think it is better than the other one. 

 We do not care so long as we get the 

 law in this State that will do the busi- 

 ness. What is the best way to clean 

 up foul brood? If this Bill will do 

 what is being done in Indiana and 

 Oklahoma, I think it will do the work 

 better than the one I signed the peti- 

 tion for. I am in favor of the better 



Bill. 



Mr. Diebold — I would suggest that 

 the Secretary read the Bill that was 

 before the Legislature last year, and 

 the year before, and which I under- 

 stand is the one I circulated around in 

 my county, so that my memory may 

 be refreshed on this subject, and that 

 it may be brought before the mind of 

 each of us. 



Dr. Bohrer — ^Before the Secretary be- 

 gins to read that Bill, I would simply 

 state that the idea that Mr. Becker has 

 of the Bills would make no difference 

 with the Legislature at all, because I 

 have had some experience in legisla- 

 tive matters; I have been a member of 

 our legislature in Kansas two terms, 

 and some of the pet measures that 

 were introduced were so modified I did 

 not feel that I was the father of the 

 bill after they got through with them, 

 your committee as your Bill — you don't 

 know how it will come out after they 

 get through with it. We are trjang to 

 get something that will help you stamp 

 out foul brood. I won't say that this 

 is better than the one you already 

 have, but if it is better, it is the one 

 you want. I read It over hastily. Iff 

 is a modified copy of the Bill that Dr. 

 Phillips sent to our Secretary, and it 

 will have nothing to do with changing 

 the Bill you have already had before 

 you at all. 



Mr. Kluck — ^Would it not be a good 

 thing for this committee to have the 



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