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TENiTH ANNUAL, REPORT O'F THE 



we could use those names, I think it 

 would be to our great advantage. 



flVEr. Kildow — ^I would like to say one 

 thing: We carry our paraphernalia 

 withj us, and whenever a man wanted 

 us to we helped him clean up his dis- 

 eased bees. 



Pres. Bowen — Before we hear from 

 Dr. Phillips, I would like to name the 

 committee on legislation: C. P. Da- 

 dant, Jas. A. Stone and J. E. Pyles. 



Dr. Phillips-— I have been thinking 

 for some time of trying to sflnd some 

 way in which the material that we 

 collect can be made a little bit more 

 valuable to the bee-keepers of the 

 country. I am as anxious to find some 

 way by which the State Association 

 can get a lot of work to do, because 

 the harder a man works the greater his 

 interest will be. The harder an asso- 

 ciation works the greater will be their 

 Interest, and this applies to the indi- 

 vidual — the greater interest will he 

 tage in the Association if he works for 

 the good of the bee-keepers. 



Since the situation as to disease is so 

 urgent, there is enough work for every 

 man with a knowledge enough about 

 the disease to work intelligently, and 

 it cannot be done by only a few. 



It would be the height of folly to ex- 

 pect the inspectors of this State to do 

 all that is to be done among the dis- 

 eased colonies. 



If you had 50 men traveling over the 

 State, they could not cover the ground 

 and reach everybody. And you cannot 

 get 50 men, so that some other way 

 must be devised by which the people 

 who have these diseases among their 

 bees can be informed concerning the 

 nature of the disease and concerning 

 their treatment. 



With that thought in mind I have 

 been trying to see what other methods 

 can be devised in addition to the In- 

 spection, so that some of these things 

 that we so much need can be accom- 

 plished. 



'The Bureau of Entomology for some 

 time past has been keeping a record of 

 all locations in which the disease Is 

 found, based on examination of actual 

 samples. We don't take anybody's 

 wordi for it. Mr. Moore said he found 

 in Henderson county a bad case of the 

 disease. Henderson county seems to 

 be outlined on our map, but we can't 

 make it solid red on his say so; we 

 have to say in our records that it has 

 been obtained from actual samples re- 



ceived and examined. When it is from 

 an actual sample, there can be no ques- 

 tion about it. 



In order to reach the people that 

 have the disease in their colonies we 

 have been making an effort to get the 

 names of bee-keepers in the counties 

 from which the disease is reported. 



The situation in Illinois is something 

 like this: According to the last census 

 there were almost 35,000 bee-keepers, 

 which produce about 3v0O0,0O€ pounds 

 of honey per year. You have about 

 one-half of one per cent of the bee- 

 keepers in your Association. 



Mr. Moore — ^In 1910? 



Dr. Phillips — 'The census previous. 

 That census includes bees on farms 

 only; not in towns and cities; it is 

 supposed to be enumerated this time. 



iThe method in which we have been 

 getting the names of the bee-keepers 

 has been to write to the postmasters 

 and ask them to give us this informa- 

 tion. 



In Illinois we have sent to 1,335 post- 

 masters, and have received lists of bee- 

 keepers from 1,073 of those postmas- 

 ters. We have received replies from 

 80 per cent of the postmasters to whom 

 we have made this request, and have 

 made an increase in our mailing list in 

 these counties of 590' per cent, in the 

 62 counties. We have done this in 62 

 counties out of 102. 



In the 62 counties we had previously 

 734 names of bee-keepers; in that same 

 territory we now have 5,048, an in- 

 crease of 4,314. 



OPor the entire State, that is, all the 

 counties including 40 to which we have 

 not sent requests for names to the 

 postmasters, we have 5,177 names. 



We have here a list of the counties, 

 giving a number of postofHces, the 

 number that replied; the number of 

 bee-keepers' names previous to the in- 

 quiry, and the number afterward. That 

 is merely a matter for office record. 



It has occurred to me tliat possibly 

 there is some way these names can be 

 used. We got these names for the 

 purpose of sending to bee-keepers in 

 the counties where we know the dis- 

 ease exists at least one publication 

 dealing with this subject. 



I realize that when a government 

 publication comes through the mail, 

 that in nine times out of ten it is 

 thrown in the waste basket I know if 

 we send a circular to the 5,100 names 

 on our list a great many will not be 



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