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and there is more than one hive, he should be willing to in- 

 vestigate. Mr. Moore came to my place and looked my 

 colonies over and did it in a very thorough manner, for which 

 I am obliged to him. I said, "How much do I owe you?" 

 He replied, "You owe me just one dollar, and I want you to 

 pay it to join the Chicago-Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation. I want to state the facts, and I am impelled more 

 to say it by the remarks the gentleman made in the rear of 

 the room. I believe Mr. Moore has done his duty, and he is 

 a good man, and I don't want him to go around saying, "I 

 don't know," when he does. 



Mr. Moore — I am not correctly quoted in the case which 

 Mr. Kimmey has mentioned. The gentleman Mr. Kimmey 

 referred to merely plays with bees for pleasure. He told me 

 he had practically been cleaned out with foul brood, but that 

 he hadn't any at that time; and I certainly told him, as I 

 have told everybody, that I knew foul brood when I saw it, 

 absolutely, and I do know it. When it comes to these scien- 

 tific matters, in which every subject is involved if you come 

 right down to the very bottom of it, I say I am not an expert,, 

 as Mr. France or Mr. McEvoy is, because I have not got 

 their years of experience. But I absolutely know foul brood, 

 and I told that gentleman so, and he said, "I haven't got it." 

 We examined one or two of his hives and the bees were very 

 cross ; I got stung repeatedly. We had smoke, too, lots of it. 

 When we got done with that hive I showed him he had foul 

 brood, and I showed him the proofs of it, and he admitted 

 that it was foul brood. There was also pickled brood in the 

 same frame with it in the same colony ; and he didn't deny to 

 me at all he had foul brood in his apiary. 



Mr. Kimmey — ^When Mr. Moore was in our section he 

 Avent to every bee-keeper he could find, and spared neither 

 tinie nor pains in going to the bottom of all of them. I gave 

 him the name of every bee-keeper I' knew within five or six 

 rniles, and I understand from hearing from them that he 

 visited all of them. 



Dr. Miller — I have a resolution to offer : "Resolved, That 

 it is the sense of this Convention that it is desirable that bees 

 should be assessed and taxed." 



Mr. Smith — I might say that that same resolution was 

 passed at the State Bee-Keepers' Convention two weeks ago, 

 in Springfield. 



Mr. Moore — I want to correct some of these lawyers tliat 

 are talking about common law and State law. Wlienever the 

 Illinois Legislature raises its hands it wipes the common law 

 off the land. I S *! Hi 



Pres. York put the motion, and a vote having been taken 

 it was declared carried. 



BLACK BROOD — PICKLED BROOD. 



Mr. Colburn — We hear about black brood, and this sum- 

 mer I ran across two or three symptoms in my apiary of 

 something not exactly like foul brood. Some four years ago 



