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dustry of bee-keeping and give it a 

 little support. 



Mr. York — ^We are getting away 

 from our subject. We don't want to 

 get away from what Dr. Phillips has 

 said about using those 5,000 names. 

 They expect to get out a four- page 

 circular double letter size, in Michi- 

 gan, and use the 3d and 4th pages for 

 advertisers, offering the bee-supply 

 dealers and queen-breeders a chance 

 to pay for lihis circular, so that there 

 will be no expense to the Michigan 

 Association. 



The Illinois Association can do the 

 same thing, and get out a similar cir- 

 cular to send to these 5,000 names, and 

 in that letter give them some instruc- 

 tions as to foul brood and other bee- 

 diseases, invite them to join your 

 State Association, and give them any 

 other information you wish that is 

 helpful to bee-keepers in this State; 

 and at the end of the circular, put 

 the advertising, which will cover all 

 the expense, 



I think it would be a great help to 

 this Association to use those names. 

 I am sure the bee-supply dealers and 

 others will be able to heSp pay for it. 

 The -advertisements I believe will 

 cover all the expense, and in that way 

 you can co-operate with the Govern- 

 ment. "What they are trying to do is 

 to get foul brood cleaned up in this 

 State. 



I would like to see this Association 

 follow the same lines as the Michigan 

 Association are going to follow. They 

 will soon be ready with their circular. 

 Our Secretary might get up a similar 

 one. 



If this Association would send out 

 something in the way of a circular to 

 these names furnished by the Govern- 

 ment, and the State Entomologist is 

 authorized to take charge of the in- 

 spection work, the people will soon 

 "sit up and take notice." 



Mr. Diebold) — ^From what Mr. York 

 . and Dr. Phillips have said, about get- 

 ting this information before the peo- 

 ple of the State of Illinois with the 

 least expenditure of money, I under- 

 stand that we have a little money here 

 at our disposal as an Association, and 

 I would suggest that the committee 

 on printing, ' who have these matters 

 in charge, be allowed to use some of 

 this money for the purposes suggest- 



ed, and that the matter be turned 

 over to our Secretary, 



Mr. York — You mean be referred to 

 our Executive Committee? 



Mr, Diebold — Yes. % 



Mr. Pyles — I move that you put this 

 matter before a committee and have 

 it pasised upon in some form. 



Pres. Bowen — ^I think the Commit- 

 tee on Resolutions should take this 

 into consideration, without any refer- 

 ring being necessary; however, it 

 might be well to refer it to them. 



I would like to express myself. I 

 don't think we ever had any one at 

 our Convention here who has really 

 put us in line of doing the work as it 

 should be done, as Dr. Phillips has. 

 He has outlined this work in a better 

 way than I have known any one doing 

 heretofore, and I feel like compliment- 

 ing him, I think Dr. Philips has put 

 us on the right road to get the busi- 

 ness done, and to get matters before 

 the bee-keepers of the State in a bet- 

 ter way than anything that has ever 

 been suggested. 



I hope the Committee on Resolu- 

 tions will put it in such a way that we 

 can come before the legislature and 

 have them adopt the measures we 

 need, and have been trying to get 

 for so long a time. 



Pres. Bowen — ^Is there anything 

 further? If not we will now ask Dr. 

 Bohrer for his paper. 



Dr, Bohrer — My paper is in the 

 hands of Mr. York, and I will ask him 

 to read it, and if there is anything in 

 the different methods of treatment — 

 when the paper is read — that you 

 w^^ould like to ask about, I should be 

 pleased to have you do so. 



Pres. Bowen — Mr. York will read 

 Dr. Bohrer's paper. 



European Foul Brood. 



All who have had experience with 

 European foul brood seem to agree 

 that the Alexander method of treat- 

 ment is a success, provided the direc- 

 tions or course of treatment marked 

 out by Mr. Alexander be rigidly adT 

 hered to. 



The prominent feature is to keep the 

 infected colony queenless for 21 days, 

 and then to provide them with a virgin 

 queen or a queen-cell, which will keep 

 the colony without a laying queen for 

 SO days at least. . 



