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Mr. (Coppin — That is what I was go- 

 ing to suggest. 



Mr. Diebold^ — I have had a notion of 

 doing that; but I said/ "I won't 

 monopolize things." 



Honey and Foul Brood. 



"How much honey would there be on 

 the market if it were all barred out 

 w^here foul brood is found?" 



•Mr. iMoore — I think that question 

 refers to the clause in the foul brood 

 law, to prohibit the sale of bees and 

 honey from foul-broody apiaries. 



Mr, Stone — That is not in our foul 

 brood law. 



Mr. Moore — No, it is the one that 

 Dr. Bohrer ibrought, and also in some 

 of the others, in some of the Western 

 States. In their foul brood law they 

 prohibit the sale of honey from apiaries 

 where foul brood exists. 



Mr. Kluck — To a certain extent that 

 would work a hardship. 



Mr. Moore — in case a bee-keeper has 

 fifteen or twenty thousand pounds of 

 honey — fine first-class honey — ^and foul 

 brood is discovered in his apiary, he 

 would have that honey on his hands. 

 AVhat would he do with it? 



Mr. Pyles — If he found tuberculosis 

 among his cowc, would it work a hard- 

 ship for him not to sell the milk? 

 Would you want your neighbor to buy 

 honey of you where you find you have 

 bees infected with foul brood? 



Mr. Kluck — Suppose you have a 

 dairy, say 50 cows; two, three or four 

 of them have tuberculosis; you simply 

 throw out those three or four or five, 

 wihatever the number may ibe, and the 

 other 45 or so are aJl rig'ht. You go 

 on and sell your milk, and so it will 

 be with the sale of honey. A man may 

 have 5'0 or lOO colonies; he may have 

 10 per cent of these colonies diseased, 

 but the other 90 per cent are all right; 

 he surely will w^ant to sell that honey, 

 and it would be working an injustice 

 for him to have to keep it. 



Mr. Coppin — I got 18,000 pounds of 

 honey one season, and I discovered I 

 had foul brood among my bees; well, 

 I would ihave felt pretty badly if a 

 bee-inspector should have come in 

 there and said: "Why, you cannot 

 sell any of your honey." I would have 

 been "up against it." I don't think 

 any bee-keeper would want to see 

 a law to that effect passed in the 

 State c^ Illinois. I shoud not vote for 



it. I think we would be voting against 

 our own interests, because you are 

 liable to have a case of foul brood — 

 to fin<J a little of it, almost any time in 

 your apiary where you have many col- 

 onies of ibees. I think we s'hould ea.- 

 deavor to stamp foul brood out, but 

 not add that to the law. 



Mr. York — As I understand itf there 

 is nothing detrimeoatal in honey from 

 a foul brood colony to the ihuman sys- 

 tem. 



Dr. Phillips — It does not hurt the 

 human being; it is different from dis- 

 eased milk. Sections of honey that 

 have been drawn out, that have no 

 honey in them, you can say will trans- 

 mit the disease; particularly drawn 

 sections that they use for bait will 

 transmit the disease. 



Mr. iMoore — it >would be quite a hard- 

 ship on a man with a big crop of honey, 

 1,500 or 1,000 pounds, to ihave his api- 

 ary 'inspected in July, and find foul 

 brood; he would not know what had 

 caused the infection, or know that it 

 was infected; it would be a hardship. 



Mr. Pyles — The question to my mind 

 is this: How would you, gentlemen, 

 having in the neighborhood of 150 or 

 200 colonies in your yard like to have 

 your grocer ship in honey from foul 

 broody apiaries and have ttoat honey 

 scattered over your neighborhood and 

 give to the other bees foul (brood? 



Mr. Coppin — Look at the map there 

 now (hangs on the wall, by Mr. Kil- 

 dow). Those two maps hanging there 

 — look at those. Probably not half of 

 this State has been examined. See 

 how much honey you could find in the 

 State of Illinois that would go on the 

 market if you could only sell it where 

 there was no foul brood. 



Dr. Phillips — The way I understand 

 it, under' the law it would apply to 

 whole regions only, not to individual 

 apiaries and if there was such a law 

 passed bee-keepers in the State who 

 wanted to sell honey would be mighty 

 particular that the disease was not in 

 their yard. 



It is not a fair deal or a square deal 

 to ship that foul-ibroody honey on the 

 marke:t and let some one get the dis- 

 ease in their apiary from that sourpe. 

 If you have shipped! honey from a diis- 

 eased apiary you have been doing harm 

 to some one else. This disease has 

 been spread all over the United States. 



I would ibar out diseased hives; a 



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