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colonies and lost practically the whole thing with foul brood. 

 I had no experience with it, and it got into a dreadful state 

 before I knew it was foul brood ; and I didn't go at it in the 

 scientific way that Mr. McEvoy and Mr. France teach, and 

 that we all practice nowadays, and the result was I lost the 

 whole thing. I found foul brood in quite a number of dif- 

 ferent stages in the honey. I saw foul brood, as I say, in 

 those 25 apiaries, which would mean 75 to 100 colonies af- 

 fected; and after a while one gets the idea in his head, and 

 I am satisfied now that I know foul brood when I see it. 

 It is not necessary to smell anything at all to find foul brood. 

 The expression has been used that one who cannot tell foul 

 brood in his hives when he smells it is not competent to treat 

 the disease. I believe that is true, because you can see foul 

 brood with your eyes a long time before you will smell it at 

 all, a good sunlight helping you. That shows to me that 

 the disease is much more widely distributed than any one has 

 an idea. I believe the only way to do these things is to 

 make a clean sweep of them. With infectious diseases we 

 make laws to protect the public and we don't care a snap 

 of the finger for the individual who is injured, as long as the 

 welfare of the entire people is at stake. Some laws are made 

 paying injured individuals for the loss of their goods, such 

 as cattle and some other things, but as far as I know there 

 is no law in the United States compensating any bee-keeper 

 for the loss of his bees. Now, the reason has occurred to 

 me why. Under our accepted treatments — we call it the 

 iVicEvoy treatment — you can save your bees in a great many 

 cases. If you go to the Legislature and say, "We can save 

 our bees, but there is a big loss there, and we want to pay 

 the bee-keepers for it," they won't understand it. If you save 

 your hives and bees they can't see where there is much loss 

 at all; and the duty of the inspector is to help you, and give 

 you a money value, of course, in helping you to eradicate 

 the disease and to save your bees and hives. Consequently, 

 they would not give any compensating clause in any law to 

 that effect. I made a minute of every case, and I can tell 

 you the names, number of colonies they have, and the number 

 of hives infected, and what I said. It would take a month 

 if I would attempt to cover that ground. 



Pres. York — Did the foul-brood inspector visit all the 

 bee-keepers in this (Cook) County? 



Mr. Moore — Not by any means. In Cook County we 

 have from 350 to 400 bee-keepers, and my total visits were 

 125 or 135 calls. 



Mr. Wheeler — Did you do any work in helping to get 

 rid of the disease? 



Mr. Moore — I did everything that was possible. Where 

 there was an opening I made appointments and went back 

 on other days and helped them cure the disease. I spent in 

 some cases half a day with individuals to see the thing was 

 done properly. I am green along side of these people who 

 have made a life study of it ; I feel as if I were in the A B C 

 class. I don't want any one to get the idea that I think I 



