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over $50,000 and would gladly pay to have it done. He wrote 

 to Mr. Moore and the letter never came back, and Mr Moore 

 has never answered. I was there nine times trying to get 

 that man to do it. His wife said to me he would be fined 

 if he didn't have this done, by the State. After that I could 

 do nothing. The bees are all hanging in five frames in soap- 

 boxes to-day. 



Mr. Moore — I had no appropriation for answering let- 

 ters, but I paid the postage and answered every letter as far 

 as I know. It was wholly unintentional if anybody was 

 neglected. I answered a number of inquiries where I couldn't 

 personally go. 



Mr. Smith — I will just say for the information of Mr. 

 Wheeler, that there is now in Washington a scientific process. 

 Mr. France is on his way there with foul brood, and the 

 best scientists in the United States are trying to solve that 

 jprobleln, and it is better than we inspectors can do, and 

 we expect information from there that will be nublished in 

 all the bee-papers. 



Mr. Moore — I feel very deeply in this matter, to state 

 that any' man who goes abroad and tries to help the bee- 

 keepers ought to go for two years to the Agricultural Col- 

 lege at Champaign and take a regular scientific course in 

 entomology and microscopy. That ought to be done. The 

 question is. Who is going to pay for it? I was appointed 

 by the chief inspector, Mr. Smith, as deputy inspector. In 

 the pursuit of my duties I spent 33 days calling on bee- 

 keepers within my reach. I followed a totally different 

 scheme from my chief, Mr Smith. He gave me no instruc- 

 tions as to what I should do. So I took the addresses that 

 I had of the members of our Association, and there is some- 

 thing like 300, and attempted to call on everybody. It was 

 published in the American Bee Journal, and we tried to ad- 

 vertise to every one that we would go and see whoever called 

 for us within say 20 miles of Chicago. But we got no re- 

 sponses. I think there was one or two who wrote to me, 

 suggesting that they would like a visit. I called in, on my 

 own plan and out of 135 apiaries I found about 25 diseased. 

 Now, you see, if I had attempted simply to go where there 

 were complaints I would have had two out of 25. I found 

 23 diseased apiaries by dint of calling on everybody and 

 examining the hives in the apiary that seemed to show disease 

 or weakness. 



Dr. Miller — How many of those 23 knew before you 

 called that their bees had foul brood? 



Mr. Moore — Not to exceed two or three. I would have 

 to guess at that. They knew that the bees had not done as 

 well as they did some time before, and they had not gotten 

 any honey from that hive or from other hives, but that they 

 had this awful disease that we understand as foul brood, they 

 didn't know. 



Mr. Dadant — Were they foul-broody in every case ? 



Mr. Moore — You understand it is a great deal easier to 

 ask questions than answer them. I myself had about 35 



