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Btate. ;Could you tell from your rec- 

 ords the actual days' work? 



Mr. Pyles — ^I know I had 37*^ days 

 inyself. 



. Mr. Copping — I put in 5. 



. (Mr. Stone — 94% days. 



Mr. Pyles — I went to iSpring Valley 

 when I first started out. I found one 

 man who had a lot of bees in all kinds 

 of hives. He had a bushel basket of 

 combs that he had outside. I said, 

 "What will you do with these?" He 

 replied, "I will melt them tomorrow." 



I was there about a monfth and a 

 half afterward and that ba^sk^t was 

 there yet. 



'There are people who try their very 

 best to get rid of foul brood, and you 

 also run up against a proposition like 

 this. You can't do anything, and when 

 you find a case like this one, don't 

 you realize that you are not doing 

 anything? It looks that way to me. 

 . (Vice Pres. Moore takes the chair.) 



Pres. Moore — The inspectors put in 

 106% days' inspection at a total cost 

 of $128.53 in inspecting 51 counties in 

 the State. You can figure what the 

 expense would be to cover the entire 

 State and cover it thoroughly. 



Mr. York — ^I would like to ask 

 whether even one county was covered 

 thoroughly, of these 51? 



Mr. Kildow — ^You have to go at 

 them kind of easy. You can't ask for 

 an apropriation to clean up the whole 

 State at once; they would refuse it 

 pretty quick. 



Pres. Moore^-If this inspection work 

 is put into the hands of the State En- 

 tomologist, and more latitude allowed 

 him for expenses, he would cover the 

 State more thoroughly. We are doing 

 it in a slipshod way. We find the dis- 

 ease and will clean it up; some one 

 else may have it and won't clean It 

 up, and in this way the disease is 

 spreading. An inspector cannot get 

 everywhere. We can't go over the 

 entire county. We may miss a small 

 apiary, containing a few colonies, that 

 have the disease. It would be but a 

 short time until they are all infected. 



Mr. York — It this should come un- 

 der the supervision of the iState En- 

 tomologist, he would know at all times 

 where the inspectors are. He can 

 telegraph to the nearest inspector, and 

 tell hiin • to go there while he is in 

 that neighborhood. 



Mr. York — Mr. Klidow said he went 



as far as he could with the money 

 he had. 



Mr. Kildow — ^We are allowed only 

 $60'0.0O. The committee told me they 

 would back me up in anything I 

 thought best to do. The time of the 

 year was advancing, so that we could 

 only work at a certain time, and we 

 had to be a little easy. 



Mr. York — I understand from Mr. 

 Becker's report there is about $1,000 

 in the treasury. I should think the 

 Legislature might say, "You don't 

 need any more money if you don't use 

 what you have." 



Mr. Kildow — ^I deputized every man 

 in the State I knew of that was com- 

 petent to go out. I don't know of an- 

 other man I felt like sending out. 



I talked to Dr. Phillips when I met 

 him in the summer; we talked about 

 plans of work the best we could in a 

 short time; he advised me to follow 

 out the same plan I was consideri«g. 

 We got to work just as soon as we 

 could. I was handicapped in not know- 

 ing whom to get. I gave the inspectors 

 — most of them — a number of counties 

 to go into, and told them to go over 

 those counties and look for any dis- 

 eased apiary. « 



Pres. Moore — ^In regard to this bal- 

 ance you speak of, Mr. York, that I 

 think has been carried along for some 

 time. A year ago we had quite a 

 balance. 



Mr. Stone — Let me explain; there is 

 the publishing of and getting out of 

 the report of this meeting to go in be- 

 fore the next appropriation. 



Pres. Moore — ^As I understand it, the 

 appropriation is limited to $600.00 for 

 foul brood inspection. 



Mr. York — ^You can use it for any- 

 thing you are a mind to; the new bill 

 calls for $600.00, We have a thousand 

 dollars to spend for anything we want 

 to spend it for. ' 



Mr. iPhillipsi — ^I would like to say that 

 I have been very much pleased with 

 the work the inspectors have done 

 in this State this year. 



The systematic hunting for disease, 

 to find out just what the Association 

 has to do, and what the State has to 

 do to clean up this disease, is a big 

 step in advance. 



Heretofore the inspection in this 

 State, and in lots of others, has been 

 a hit and miss proposition. The men 

 would do the w^ork that was imme- 



