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are ready to go to work if they have a 

 diseased colony or colonies, and clean 

 them up. 



You get one of these young,- smart 

 students from collegre; he goes around 

 between the honey seasons and telld 

 you to clean up your bees, that the 

 bees are diseased, when there is not a 

 particle of honey-flow — what are you 

 going to do? You clean them up and 

 feed them yourself out of your own 

 stuff, or buy something to feed them, 

 or let him destroy them. 



Mr. Pyles — I have a mind to get into 

 the band-wagon. In the first place, I 

 am in favor of I>r. Phillips' Bill to 

 quite an extent. If we can get any- 

 thing that beats what we have I am 

 heartily in favor of it. If it is possible 

 to have the State Entomologist do this 

 work, I would say to get him; if the 

 State is willing to pay him they could 

 simply add something extra to his 

 present salary to enable him to do the 

 work; they have a place to keep the 

 records; they can keep the records of 

 everything that is done. I don't think 

 there is any record whatever to be 

 found of any work that (Mr. Smith did. 

 Perhaps a year from now there will be 

 no record of anything that Mr. Kildow 

 and his assistants have done. The 

 record and report that we have here 

 with us today will be shortened down, 

 and no doubt a year from now, only 

 those people that are personally ac- 

 quainted with the work that has been 

 done will know anything about it. 



I feel free to say — and perhaps I am 

 out as much time as any man — I 

 feel free to say that I did very 

 little work for the amount I re- 

 ceived; and very little work in the 

 way of benefit to bee-keepers, yet I 

 believe my record will compare favor- 

 ably with the other men that we had 

 ■ out inspecting this year. 



I am in favor of this Bill of Dr. 

 Phillips because I think it is better 

 than what we have got. In the first 

 place, it will be a political appoint- 

 ment, and we have no more guarantee 

 that when the Governor appoints some 

 one he will appoint a bee-keeper than 

 that the Entomologist of the State 

 will appoint a bee-keeper; and as far 

 as the students' doing the work is con- 

 cerned, they will perhaps do the work 

 just as well as the man whom the 

 Governor will appoint. They have the 

 advantage of an education along this 

 particular work and are studying on 



this line; they have an education on 

 the subject that it is almost impossible 

 for a majority of bee-keepers to hax t. 



Will the bee-keepers do this worL? 



The time of the year that you talk 

 about doing the inspecting is not such 

 a time that a good bee-keeper will 

 leave his work and go out at $4.00 or 

 $6.00 a day; he is not going to go away 

 from his own place during a good 

 honey-flow. 



Pres. Bowen — This discussion is out 

 of order. 



Mr. York — The Committee on Reso- 

 lutions would be glad to hear this dis- 

 cussion. 



Dr. Bohrer — ^The State Entomolo- 

 gist would appoint competent persons 

 to do the work; he would hunt up 

 these bald-headed bee-keepers around 

 here and take -lessons. Tou want to 

 formulate your law right; let the law 

 say that the State Entomologist shall 

 appoint a person who is competent. 



Mr. Kildow — ^Who shall say he is 

 competent? Will it be left to the State 

 Entomologist to say who is compe- 

 tent? 



Dr. Bohrer — No doubt he would go 

 to Mr. Kildow among the very first. 



Mr. Stone — ^I want to ask Dr. Phillips 

 if he didn't say it was to be under the 

 charge of the University, and as 

 recommended by the Illinois Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association? 



Dr. Phillips — I don't know how your 

 laws are here in that regard. 



Just a word in regard to Mr. Becker's 

 criticism; it is very distant. And I was 

 going to wait until the State Inspector 

 made his report for an opportunity to 

 say that I highly commend the work 

 that has been done in this State this 

 year. 



I have known more about what Mr. 

 Kildow and his assistants have been 

 doing this year than ordinarily. We 

 were working together more or less as 

 I wanted some information they were 

 after, but just the same I know, and 

 you know that there are times during 

 the honey season when it is not worth, 

 the bee-keeper's while to leave his 

 own place for less than $15.00 a day, 

 and those are the days when inspec- 

 tion should be done; and that is the 

 reason why bee-keepers are not as 

 good inspectors as men who are em- 

 ployed all the time. A bee-keeper Is 

 at home while he should be inspecting. 



This Bill will be drafted for the bee- 

 keepers of Illinois, and not for the Illi- 



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