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TKNTH ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE 



motion. Are you ready for the ques- 

 tion? (Motion was put and carried. 



Pres. Bowen — I would like a little time 

 en the appointment of that committee. 

 Is there anything further to bring up 

 for the present? If not, I think it 

 would be a good time to hear the re- 

 port from our State Bee Inspector, Mr. 

 Kildow, if he is ready to give his re- 

 port. 



Mr. Kildow — I will give a condensed 

 outline of what we have done during 

 the summer, and you can ask all the 

 questions you want to. 



Mr. Kildow's Report. 



As your Inspector I submit the fol- 

 lowing condensed report: 



With the aid of my assistants we 

 visited 51 counties having foul brood. 

 With the co-operation of Dr. Phillips, 

 we find that American foul brood ex- 

 ists in 30 counties, and that European 

 foul brood exists in 27 counties. 



On this map here (indicating to 

 map hung on wall) j-ou will find where 

 the American foul brood exists; these 

 red spots are the counties in what is 

 called "suspected," that is, Dr. Phil- 

 lips got reports from some of those 

 counties saying that they have that 

 disease, and some were sent to him 

 that he could not quite make out; so 

 we put those spots in the suspencted 

 counties, where we can't quite prove it. 



Mr. Moore — ^In Henderson County, at 

 Gladstone, I found 20 colonies that 

 were badly diseased — no suspicion 

 about it. 



Mr. Kildow — ^We don't put anything 

 in the report unless we are absolutely 

 certain of it — unless we have proof 

 of it. 



Any time during the giving of this 

 report if you want to ask questions, 

 stop me and I will try and answer 

 right then. 



These (indicating on map) are the 

 suspected ones; these big ones are the 

 counties where we have gotten proof 

 that the disease exists. That is Amer- 

 ican foul brood on that map (indicat- 

 ing the red marks); this is the Eu- 

 roepan foul brood, and these spots 

 here (indicating the red) are the sus- 

 pected ones. Twenty-seven counties 

 of European foul brood with seven 

 suspected ones. 



Right here, close to me, within 8 

 miles, I was notified this year of a 

 diseased apiary. A man there with 



60 colonies last fall knew he had a 

 little disease; he got a little cranky 

 at his father-in-law and he let his 

 bees stay there and rot down, and this 

 year a bee-keeper a mile and a half 

 from him, with 240 colonies, had 69 

 of his colonies show disease from the 

 effects of the apiary a short distance 

 away. He cleaned them up, but this 

 fall he showed me a few more. 



Right across the Illinois river, just 

 two miles from that apiary, there are 

 two other large apiaries that no doubt 

 next spring will be badly infected. 



I wrote to the man who let his bees 

 stay there in that condition, and I 

 went up there and saw his daughter; 

 she said that he was away, but to look 

 at the bees. I did so, and when I 

 returned home I wrote him a letter 

 asking him if he would not bury 

 those hees or destroy them in some 

 way so that he would not affect any 

 more apiaries; a few days afterwards 

 one of my neighbors said that he gave 

 me a cussing for writing the letter. 



We want a foul brood la wto compel 

 him to clean up his dirty mess. 



We visited many apiaries. These 

 apiaries range all the way from 450 

 colonies to one. 



I want to say that down here in 

 Schuyler county, I think, one of my 

 assistants found an apiary of 450 col- 

 onies all in hox hives, on the Illinois 

 river. 



During our trips through these 

 counties where the Association had no 

 members, we tried our best to' get the 

 Association represented, and we did 

 get about 5 or 6 new members for the 

 Association, part of these in counties 

 where we did not have any members. 



That is the extent of my report. I 

 have cut it down short to give you a 

 little outline of where we have been, 

 and to show you where the disease 

 exists. 



Any questions that you want to ask 

 I will try and answer. 



A member — Have you any trace of 

 foul brood in Logan county? 



Mr. Kildow — ^In Logan county, Amer- 

 ican foul brood, no European. 



Mr. York — ^I would like to ask how 

 many assistants you had. 



Mr. Kildow— I had 7. 



Dr. Phillips — Do you know how many 

 actual •days' work it took to cover 51 

 counties — that is just one-half of the 

 State. There are i02 counties in the 



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