152 FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 



to everything in the world. You must not try to keep bees 

 until we know all about it. How do we learn except by 

 starting and using the things we know? The idea that we 

 should not try till we know all about it is all bosh. Where 

 would our medical profession have been on that basis? Mr. 

 Wheeler says the bees will take these germs and scatter them 

 all around, and then those foul-brood germs will get every- 

 where. Dr. Howard gives the answer to that. By exposing 

 foul-brood germs to light, air and dust they die. We know 

 that light and air and dust are present everywhere. Ask 

 your wife, if you don't believe it. And those foul-brood 

 germs scattered anywhere are exposed to light and air and 

 dust, and that is fatal to them. Some more scientific man 

 than myself can tell you how soon. Two of our members 

 have said that which is an insult to our intelligence, and to 

 inspectors everywhere ; they say we are going to favor cer- 

 tain parties; that we are going to be prejudiced; that we are 

 not going to do right. Every man who has ever gone around 

 inspecting bees knows that is not true. We are meeting 

 everybody, and I tell you we are human ; we want people 

 to like us ; we want to be popular, and the way to do that 

 is to do right, and to be just, and honest, and help our 

 brothers where we are right. 



Dr. Miller — How can you favor? 



Mr. Kimmey — By skipping foul brood and saying it is 

 not foul brood. 



Dr. Miller — Suppose you do skip a man, would you favor 

 that man by doing it? 



Mr. Kimmey — Of course you wouldn't. 



Mr. Wheeler — I was misquoted, or misunderstood. I 

 didn't say it was best to do nothing till we found out every- 

 thing. That is a misstatement. I don't mean that. I didn't 

 say anything of the kind. I believe all such investigations 

 are good, but I believe there is no use going to an extreme 

 in the matter, and doing things that are unwarranted, until 

 we have good ground. 



Mr. Reynolds — I will relate my experience in that regard. 

 Mr. Moore came to my place last July about 20 minutes to 

 12, and asked how my bees were getting along, and I told 

 him pretty fairly. He said. "Have you any trouble?" I 

 said, "Yes, with one hive ; it is marked there. He said. Light 

 the smoker and we will go and see it." We lit the smoker, 

 and just then my wife put her head out of the door and said 

 dinner was ready, so we went and had dinner. That was the 

 end of it. A neighbor of mine acknowledges that his apiary 

 is rotten with foul brood, but a short distance from me ; 

 he hasn't the money to clean it up. I sent Mr. Moore to 

 somebody else whose apiary was fairly rotten with it, and 

 he left orders there as to what was to be done. The man 

 came to me to ask me to help him out, and I told him I 

 didn't like to go there amongst his bees for fear I would 

 carry it home. Mr. Moore said to me he would be ghd to 

 put in a few days more if he only got his expenses. I told 

 him to write to him and get his address. This man is worth 



