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SO that we cg.n go to the Legislature and show them that 

 there is a cause for us to ask for this money for the Illinois 

 bee-keeoers. Other States are trying the same thing, and 

 I say again that whatever we do we must bring a united 

 front if we get the appropriation. Our Chairman and In- 

 spector spoke of one case where a party had a few colonies 

 of bees that they objected to their being inspected, and the 

 party moved to South Dakota. Now I am not in favor of 

 giving to my neighbor a thing 1 don't want myself. If we 

 had proper laws, that man's bees would have been inspected, 

 and if they had the disease they would have been destroyed, 

 and not gone over into South Dakota to spread the disease. 

 What is good for Wisconsin is good for Illinois, and what 

 is good for Illinois is good for South Dakota, and if we are 

 going to work for the benefit of the bee-keepers we must be 

 united, not in Illinois alone nor a part of Illinois but all over 

 the whole country. Most of us are members of the National 

 Association, and we must feel interested in all the countries. 

 I know nothing about foul brood, and I hope I may not have 

 it -among my bees, but I will try to keep other men from 

 getting it in their bees. I am personally acquainted with 

 some having foul brood, and I am heartily in favor of any 

 law that will stamp it out. I should feel badly if I got it 

 in my bees or in my neighbor's. 



Mr. York — If we can get an appropriation we can have 

 more inspectors. I think if this Bill is presented right that 

 we can get it. I don't see why we should not get as good 

 a law as Wisconsin has. We ought to try to get in touch 

 with the bee-keepers that don't take the bee-papers. If we 

 can get the bee-keepers in the different parts of the State 

 to send in the names of the bee-keepers in their locality a 

 great deal of good will be accomplished. I think Mr. Moore 

 has suggested that some of the money in tl^ ^^^^ ynr should 

 be taken to help get the new law. It seeng:^!P|||^Sfchat the 

 Association ought to pay it, and not ask Mfei^^Kniembers 

 to pay it. There are a great many peopiBlWH^aon't help 

 it on at all. They want us to pay for it and do the work too. 

 We ought to get a larger appropriation. 



Mr. Black — If there is an indication that any of this 

 money is going to be used for that it will prevent us from 

 getting anything. It will kill the whole thing, and I find 

 that nothing kills a thing quicker than to get our hands into 

 the State's pockets. If we want a law we must be willing 

 to put our hands into our own pockets. I have spent several 

 dollars in trying to get this law. 



Mr. Primm — It seems to me that as we have more than one 

 Association in this State, we ought so to arrange matters 

 that those members of one are also members of the other, 

 so far as the law is concerned, and so far as effectual work 

 is concerned. Membership in one organization should mean 

 membership in all, so that we can work together in such a 

 way as best to effect legislation, and for all concerned it 

 would be a wise move. I don't know just how it could be 

 formulated, but I think it would be wise. 



