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man must 'have his apiary inspected 

 before his crop can be taken off and 

 sold; that is pretty hard; we want to 

 work this thing- conveniently to the bee- 

 keepers yet at the same time unless 

 you know that honey comes from^ pure, 

 clean colonies, you ougtht not to think 

 of selling it. 



Mr. I>iebold — ^What protection would 

 we have against another man that ex- 

 ports into the State from the outside? 



Dr. Phillips — What protection do you 

 have on nursery stock? It must have a 

 clean bill of health before It comes in. 



Mr. York — Might have "local option" 

 on the thing! 



Mr, Moore — That is one thing that 

 this legislative committee discussed in 

 talking over the foul brood bill, that 

 no bees should toe allowed to toe 

 brought into this State without a clean 

 bill of toealth. 



Mr. Pyles — Are iwe willing to ship 

 them out? 



Mr. Moore — ^If a man with foul- 

 broody colonies in this State should 

 ship them out, I don't know that we 

 can stop it. 



Dr. Phillips — You can; you can pro- 

 hibit *he railroads from taking them. 



Mr. Moore — That should toe incor- 

 porated in the law. 



Dr. Philips — Bear in mind in this 

 connection — that a small amount of 

 the disaese has been spread by ship- 

 ping colonies; probatoly 90 per cent 

 has been spread by shipping tooney. 



Dr. Bohrer — The question that is 

 before the convention now for dis- 

 cussion is one, of course, that I don't 

 like to discuss; and I want to say this 

 at this time: I have probably 100 

 pounds of infected honey in a cage I 

 have at home; I have it closed up and 

 sealed up, and the question arises 

 with me, what to do with it. I don't 

 believe I should sell it. I don't want 

 to do anything on this green earth 

 that will submit my neighbors' bees 

 to danger, and will not; I think I may 

 bore a hole and pour every ounce of 

 that honey in it, beyond the possibil- 

 ity of its ever doing any harm. 



Now I have some good honey there, 

 so far as using it for table use goes; 

 I am not afraid to use it at home, be- 

 cause it does no one any harm. I am 

 not afraid to use it on my own table, 

 but I don't know when I would ever 

 use up a hundred pounds of it; I am 

 not going to sell it; I have made up 

 my mind I would not do that. I could 



sell it, and no one would ever detect 

 It, tout I have made up my mind I will 

 not do this; I don't think I would be 

 doing right. 



Let every man think and act upon 

 this subject. You don't want to take 

 any chances; If I can't use this honey 

 up that I have, I think it is better to 

 dig a hole and bury it. I believe that 

 this contaminated honey is the means 

 of spreading the bee-disease through- 

 out the United States more than any 

 other one thing, and I feel convinced 

 that honey being shipped from dis- 

 eased apiaries is responsible for a 

 great deal of trouble. You must get 

 people to understand that they must 

 do the right thing themselves if they 

 expect other people to do right. As I 

 have said before, each individual bee- 

 keeper should be educated, and we 

 should seek to educate the bee-keep- 

 ers in our community; try to get 

 everybody familiar with the industry 

 of bee-keeping, and then we will get 

 the protection we so much need; I 

 should think that we ought to be care- 

 ful in the smallest detail. 



I believe if you have honey that is 

 contaminated, the only safe thing to do 

 is to destroy it, or disinfect it by hard 

 boiling; it can be disinfected by boil- 

 ing with water for a half an hour; I 

 have boiled it for 35 minutes; I won't 

 stop at 20 or 25; I do th« same with 

 frames; some gentleman said he was 

 suspicious of this thing of boiling 

 frames; I. keep them under boiling 

 water for 35 minutes; I used some that 

 I had boiled in this way, and never had 

 anything of the kind appear again. 



You can't always readily tell the 

 disease. I had a strong colony — Jum- 

 bo 10 -frame hives — and the bees had 

 gone to work in the super and reached 

 the capping stage, and while the bees 

 were energetically at work bringing in 

 the honey, all at once they stopped 

 working; they crawled about the en- 

 trance of the hive listlessly; and wheii 

 I opened it I found foul-brood. You 

 may rest assured that there is some- 

 thing wrong if you see the bees list- 

 less in the midst of a honey-flow, and 

 it sihould toe given immediate attention. 

 I thought I would have to burn them 

 up and get rid of that 'kind of hive, 

 but I boiled them up and they were 

 all rigiht for us again; I think I have 

 performed a cure. 



As to the honey — we have used some 

 of it, but I won't put it on the market; 



