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SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Smith has had the work of eight men 

 on his hands to cover this State, so 

 naturally, he could not cover it all. As 

 far as I know, he has not been in Cook 

 County at all. 



Mr. Thompson — ^He was in Kane 

 County. 



Pres. York — He generally goes when 

 he is sent for. 



Mr. France— There have been sent 

 to me samples of diseased brood and 

 dead brood from almost every State, and 

 there have been some samples from 

 Cook County sent me and some sharp 

 criticisms because I did not say it was 

 foul brood; but it was not. 



Pres. York — ^What was it — pickled 

 brood? 



Mr. France — ^Some of it was. Some 

 was starved brood, and some had in- 

 dications foreign to all of us as yet. 



iMr. Moore — Was there any black 

 brood, Mr. France? 



Mr. France — No, sir; but I was sur- 

 prised to learn from Dr. Phillips that 

 he had found cases of black brood in 

 Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and California. 

 European black brood is spreading. 



Pres. York — And of course in the 

 East, besides? 



Mr. France — Yes. 



Dr. Bohrer — Has Illinois no foul 

 brood law at all? 



Pres York— It has a foul brood law, 

 but not a compulsory law. It is at the 

 option of the bee-keepers whether^ they 

 will let the inspectors in their apiaries 

 or not. 



Distance of Apiary from Highway. 



"How far should an apiary be from 

 the highway?" 



Mr. Meredith — Just far enough not 

 to interfere with the public. 



Mr. Taylor — That reminds me of a 

 story. There was a gentleman in Eng- 

 land who desired to hire a coachman, 

 and so he advertised for one. He 

 wished any candidates there might be to 

 appear at a certain time. Several ap- 

 peared and he began to question them, 

 and wanted to know how near they 

 could drive to the edge of a cliff there 

 was upon his estate. The first one said 

 he could drive within a yard of it; an- 

 other one said he thought he could 

 drive within a foot of it safely; and 

 the next one thought he could drive 

 within an inch of the edge. The last 

 man, an Irishman, said, "Faith and be 



jabers, I would keep as far away from 

 it as I could." 



Dr. Bohrer — There should be a high 

 fence, 6 or 7 feet. I remember having 

 an apiary of about 100 colonies in In- 

 diana, and I had them just over a fence 

 from a public highway and the bees 

 never annoyed people passing on the 

 road, with a fence some 6V2 feet high. 

 They would go over that fence and go 

 over the heads of persons in buggies 

 and on horseback; I never knew any 

 one molested. 



Mr. Arnd — Mr. Duff, who is here, 

 has 150 colonies right in the city of 

 Chicago. He can probably tell you. 



Mr. Duff — I can keep bees within about 

 10 feet of the street; but I have a 6- 

 foot fence so the bees rise up and go 

 right over. 



A Member — My bees are within 50 

 feet of the sidewalk and I have no com- 

 plaints. I have only 3 colonies, but 1 

 notice they rise very quickly. They are 

 up 10 or 15 feet in the air in 20 feet 

 of flight. The sidewalk is running north 

 and south, and my hives face the east, 

 but the bees go to a marsh straight west 

 from me, and simply make a little curve. 



Mr. Moore — I know Mr. Horstmann 

 'so well, and I know he won't take any 

 offense when I say he has had some ex- 

 perience. The Health Department or- 

 dered him to "get off the earth." 



Mr. Horstmann — The bees that the 

 city got after were not at my home 

 apiary; they were in another apiary. 

 They had a little trouble with the family 

 there. I had my bees on a man's lot, 

 and it seems this man and his neighbor 

 had a little trouble, and the only way 

 they could get satisfaction was to get 

 after the bees,so I got notice from the 

 Health Department to move the bees out 

 of there; but I had that all fixed up, 

 and left the bees there until I got ready 

 to put them away. I wrote to Mr. 

 Moore, and I believe I wrote to Mr. 

 Fraace at that time, too, for some litera- 

 ture. ■ I thought I might have to bluff 

 the city, but I didn't have to do that. 

 I had a friend look after it, and we left 

 the bees there until I got ready to put 

 them away. The bees are not dangerous. 

 Where I live I have bees on the corner, 

 and people passing on the sidewalk every 

 day, and they are never molested. The 

 women-folks hang up their clothes and 

 the children play all around the hives, 

 and they hardly ever get stung. It is 

 not so much the distance as it is the 



