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TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



I don't think I would be doing right 

 to my neighbor who has bees, or even 

 if it was to go out of the State. 



I think we sihould go after this 

 thing, and stamp out foul brood. The 

 man who thinks he can get rid of it 

 easily is mistaken. I have read 

 everything on the subject I could find, 

 and have been watchful. None of our 

 laws along this line are perfect; we 

 should be clothed with authority to go 

 into a man's apiary and compel him 

 to make the effort to get rid of foul 

 brood if his apiary is infected with 

 it, and I think we are on the right road 

 now, if we will follow the suggestions 

 given us by Dr. Phillips today. 



Mr. York — I don't think there is any- 

 thing to hinder Dr. Bohrer using the 

 small amount of honey; he might make 

 honey-vinegar out of it. 



Mr. Diebold — Or extract it or boil it. 



Dr. Bohrer — I might do that but I 

 won't sell it. 



Mr. Diebold^ — I suppose if we had 

 legislation along the line of prohibit- 

 ing the sale of honey in an apiary 

 where there was foul brood, it would 

 work a hardship for two or three 

 years, but after that it would be got- 

 ten under control; but if it were 

 not, by that time I suppose there 

 would ibe a class of bee-keepers that 

 would get together and would vote to 

 repeal the law and we would get back 

 to where we are now. 



Disinfecting the Honey- Extractor. 



Pres. Bowen — I would like some one 

 to suggest in the matter of extracting 

 honey, how would you disinfect the 

 extractor? 



Dr. Bohrer — I can't tell you the 

 amount of boiling water I throw into 

 mine and run through it, and I think 

 I have it thoroughly infected. It may 

 be I don't use hot water enough; we 

 pour 20 or 25 gallons of boiling water 

 — not scalding — in the extractor. 



Dr. Phillips — I should think it would 

 wash away the infection. 



Dr. Bohrer — I took every screw and 

 bolt out of that extractor and put them 

 all through the hot water. And every 

 tool and everything I used about the 

 hives. I stick them in the blaze and 

 heat them; I use carbolic acid on my 

 hands after hauling the colony; I keep 

 a pail Slitting in the apiary and it has 

 probably a 5 to 10 per cent solution. 



After I have been working about a 



hive that has been infected, I stick my 

 hands into a solution of carbolic acid 

 and water, and took my knife and 

 scraped my nails — andi I have sham- 

 pooed my hair. . Tou cannot be too 

 careful. I do this when I leave an in- 

 fected apiary; I first wash with soap 

 and use carbolic acid after that, and 

 when I go from one hive to another I 

 dip my fingers in the solution. 



Dr. Phillips — It is not necessary to 

 disinfect your hands if you keep the 

 honey off from them. The carbolic 

 acid is safer than water, because the 

 bees will not follow that; a 5 per cent 

 solution of carbolic acid they will not 

 touch, while they will water, and 

 therefore it is better. It does not dis- 

 infect in the short time it takes to 

 wash off the hands. 



Mr. Moore — I have been informed 

 that foul brood spores were alive after 

 being in a strong solution of carbolic 

 acid. 



Dr. Phillips — After being in a solu- 

 tion 5 per cent carbolic acid they are 

 still alive. 



Concrete Hive- Stand. 



Mr. Stone — If everything else is 

 finished, I would like to ask the ques- 

 tion that I asked at the National, and 

 did not get any answer from anyone 

 who had a better hive-foundation or 

 stand than I have. I have a concrete 

 foundation on the ground for the bee- 

 hive to stand on. I would like to ask 

 if any one here has any way of mak- 

 ing a concrete hive-stand that is bet- 

 ter than mine. 



Mr; Bohrer — Give yours. 



Mr. Stone — In the Chicago-North- 

 western meeting, last year the ques- 

 tion came up, and they suggested a 

 concrete slab on the ground' 2 inches 

 thick, and Dr. Miller said that would 

 rot- the hiver if you had a flat sur- 

 face, or a bottom-board to stand up- 

 on, that holds the water, and both the 

 bottom-board and the stand would 

 rot — and the whole discussion ended 

 right there; they didn't decide any- 

 thing, nor at the National. 



1 had a mould to make the concrete 

 foundation for bee-hiyes, and for that 

 reason I paid particular attention to 

 what was said there, having what I 

 thought was so much better, and 

 would probably please Dr. Miller. I 

 thought it was a pretty good thing, 

 and I liked it. I am delighted to go to 



