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Mason county reported to me that all 

 his bees were dead but about 30 col- 

 onies, and he wanted to ' know the 

 trouble — what was the matter with 

 them. I says, "I don't know; I will 

 come tomorrow." The next morning 

 I went over into Mason county and 

 met the man who owns the bees, and 

 went out to his house and found that 

 his bees were actually starving to 

 death; you could see there was no dis- 

 ease there. 



Mr. Co'ppin— I happened to be talking 

 to a lady bee-keeper in the same 

 country our inspector lives in, this sum- 

 mer. IShe stated there was something 

 wrong with her bees, and that she had 

 sent to Wisconsin. I said to her, "Don't 

 you know that we have a bee Inspector 

 here In the same county?" and she 

 said that she did not know this. I 

 said, "We have." She said, "I guess I 

 don't need It; I have been told that 

 the trouble was that my bees had foul 

 brood, and I have treated It and have 

 got rid of It." But each time when 

 I have been out there I have found no 

 trouble to find plenty of It. I was out 

 Inspecting only 5 days. 



'Mr. Kildow--©he has plenty of it yet. 



Mr. Ooppin — I notified our inspector 

 about It and he has gone there since. 



Mr. (Becker — As I stated before, If 

 we were given the towns where the 

 foul brood was, the Inspector could go 

 there and locate it. 



iMr. iPyles — tThere Is one thing else 

 that I think has not been covered, and 

 that is the work as it has been done 

 heretofore in the State. Last year Mr. 

 Kildow sent me to different places. He 

 had no record whatever of the work 

 that had been done before. When I got 

 there they told me that Mr. Smith was 

 there last year, and the year before, 

 and the year before. What benefit was 

 that to the people of the State of Il- 

 linois, to go just as an inspector and 

 find foul brood In their yard year after 

 year? it does no good to Inspect them 

 time and time again. 



The men that need Inspection are 

 those men who do not know that they 

 have the disease, and If you are going 

 there for treatment, then go where you 

 know the disease is. If you are going 

 out for inspection. Inspect where you 

 don't know that the disease exists. It 

 Is not necessary to inspect year after 

 year where you have previously been. 

 That Is the way the work has been 

 done In the past. 



I was out, under Mr. Kildow's direc- 

 tion, 37% days, and inspected over 

 3,lO0i colonies, and found 2S diseased 

 apiaries. 



I was around usually where nobody 

 ha,d ever been inspecting. Mr. Smith 

 had always waited until he got a call. 

 He would go to Cook county and in- 

 spect an apiary, and then go home. 

 And then go to the south part of the 

 State, and go home; not saying any- 

 thing against Mr. Smith, he did it per- 

 haps as he thought best. 



I think where we need inspection Is 

 where we do not know the disease ex- 

 ists. , 



Mr. York — ^It seems to. me very 

 strange that an inspector should go 

 year after year and find the disease. 

 I thought that the object was to get 

 the disease cleaned up. 



Mr.Pyles — ^We have had no orders to 

 treat the disease, but I think that is one 

 thing that we do want to accomplish. 

 I believe if we could work with the 

 government, through Dr. Phillips, we 

 could work better. I think this Ih the 

 first year the State and the government 

 have gotten together. . 



Mr. York — ^I understand the govern- 

 ment has a list of about 5,(H)0 bee- 

 keepers in Illinois. This Association 

 has only about 3(M)i members out of 

 that whole list, and only 62 counties 

 out of 10'2 counties. According to 

 that there must be in the State from 

 10,OiOO' to 12,000 bee-keepers. , ;; 



When we were at Michigan last 

 week. Dr. Phillips and I, they In- 

 augurated a plan by which they are 

 going to use the names of bee-keepers 

 the government has. That is something 

 that I believe is a good thing to bring 

 up at this point in this Association. I 

 believe it will help to build up the 

 iState Association to co-opetate with 

 the government. 



They started a plan at Grand Rapids 

 last week by which they are going to 

 use 4,0W names of bee-keepers that the 

 government has in Michigan. They are 

 to get out a circular on bee- diseases, 

 and also will invite the bee-keepers 

 to become members of the Bee-keepers' 

 Association, and get in correspondence 

 with these bee-keepers, whose names 

 the government will supply. 



I would like to see something like 

 this started In Illinois. 



If Dr. Phillips will tell us about the 

 «ame thing here, suggesting as to how 



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