rLLINOIS STAjTEJ BEE-KEBPIElRlS' ASSOCIATION 



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nois State Bee-Keepers' Association. 

 Tou have less than one-half of one per 

 cent, of all the bee-keepers in the 

 State. While you have the best bee- 

 keepers in the Association, you have 

 got 99% per cent, of them outside of 

 your Association. 



With all due respect to your Asso- 

 ciation, which I think is a very excel- 

 lent one, and I have the kindest of feel- 

 ing for all your oflacers, yet your in- 

 terests and the interest of the 99% 

 per cent, outside of your Association 

 will be the better taken care of by the 

 State Entomologist. 



Mr. York — I understand that Mr, 

 Forbes is not a fool. He is not going 

 to appoint students to do his work who 

 do not know anything about the work. 

 Mr. Forbes would not appoint any man 

 who does not understand inspecting 

 bees. There are plenty of men in this 

 Association whom he could appoint, 

 and whom no doubt he would employ, 

 and not simply some students from the 

 University. It would not be in the 

 University, but in the Department of 

 Entomology of this State. 



I>r. Phillips — rThey will employ men 

 for this work for the whole summer — 

 perhaps for the whole year. 



Mr. York — ^From what I have heard 

 of Prof. Forbes. I am satisfied that he 

 will not appoint any incompetent per- 

 son. He would want to spend that 

 money in the right way. 



I want to see that we get the best 

 work done for all the bee-keepers of 

 this State. . ' 



As Dr. Phillips has said, this Asso- 

 ciation has less than one-half of one 

 percent of all the bee-keepers in the 

 State of Illinois. It seems to me that 

 work of this kind, that covers the 

 whole State, can best be done by a 

 State department; I should think that 

 it could be done better by them than 

 by members of the Illinois Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association. There are less than 

 300 of the 35,000 bee-keepej:s of this 

 State in this Association. 



If this works well in Ohio, in Con- 

 necticut, in New York State, why 

 should it not work in Illinois? 



This bill that we have approved here, 

 and for which some of us have signed 

 the petition, contemplates spending 

 only $600.00, and $600.00 as used now 

 would not clean the disease in six 

 Counties of this State. 



As I understand it, half a dozen men 

 jcould not cover this State; you would 



need perhaps 25 men at certain times 

 of the year. If the State has enough 

 money to employ them, they can get 

 them, and clean this disease out. 



I have enough confidence in Mr. 

 Forbes, although I have never met 

 him, from what Mr. Stone and others 

 have said of him, to believe that lie 

 would do the thing right. 



Mr. Diebold — It strikes me, to get 

 the legislature to do what we desire, it 

 would be well to have it come under 

 an office that is- already established. 

 It has got to be scientific, and scientific 

 ■men can prove to members of the 

 legislature that it is necessary to have 

 a law of that kind, and an appropria- 

 tion large enough to pay for the work 

 to be done. 



Mr. Sieboldi — ^As has been stated, 

 there is only a short time in the year 

 when this work can be done, and that 

 is, when the bee-keepers are very 

 busy, during the honey-flow; there is 

 no use of undertaking this work in a 

 drouth, or in a season when the bees 

 are vicious, and therefore, I think, as 

 has already been suggested by ,Dr. 

 Phillips and others, that the University 

 at Urbana will not send out men that 

 do not know anything about this work, 

 but will send the right men, and at 

 the right time of year to do it. 



Mr. Moore — 'There are only four or 

 six men that we can use for this work 

 during the summer season, the only 

 time that this work can be done, and 

 as far as diagnosing cases of foul 

 brood is concerned, it is a very simple 

 proposition; anybody, after he has 

 been shown a case or two, can tell foul 

 brood; however, it takes a more ex- 

 perienced person to know how to 

 handle it. These four to six men 

 would nowhere near cover the State, 

 and if those men in their inspection 

 find a case of foul brood, all they can 

 do is to give notice that it should be 

 cleaned up; then if the law is worked 

 right, and the Chief Inspector, the one 

 in charge, understands it, he can send 

 some other inspectors, who have had 

 experience, there to do the work. 



I am heartily in favor of having the 

 legislature appoint the State Ento- 

 mologist. I think that is the best way 

 to <3o to get the best and the quickest 

 results. 



Pres. Bowen — We have a motion to 

 appoint a Legislative Committee, and 

 this argument has been under that 



