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SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



D. c. McLEOD, Pana, 111. 

 (In his 81st year.) 

 Foul brood law ought to be a thor- 

 ough one. I had a fight with it for 

 ten years before I got rid of it 15 years 

 ago. I tried most every thing — but 

 fire is a sure remedy. Lost about 200 

 colonies. Had about 150 colonies when 

 it comimenced. Sent samples to A. I. 

 Root in Ohio, but, having never seen 

 foul brood, he could not give me an 

 answer, but thought that was it. Dr. 

 Howard thought it was, to the best 

 of 'his knowledge. So I fought it to 

 a finish. I am not able to do much 

 now, as I am in my 81st year. 

 February IS, 1908. 



D. C. McLEOD. 



Davis, 111., Jan. 24, 1908. 



There should be a foul 'brood law 

 that would speedily and energetically 

 eradicate the disease wherever found; 

 for if diseased colonies are not cured 

 at once all colonies in ithe neighbor- 

 hood will get the disease in time. 



J. C. FRANK. 



Atwater, 111., Feb. 1, 1908. 

 Mr. Jas. A. Stone, 



Springfield, 111. 



Tou ask nie to tell all I know about 

 the need of a foul brood law. I must 

 confess it ain't much, but there are 

 several reasons: 



Isit' — To keep from spreading one of 

 the most contagious and deadly dis- 

 eases known to man among bees. 



2d — To keep one's bees from dying, 

 who is not acquainted with the dis- 

 ease. 



3d — It would be . a shame for some 

 one who is careless with his bees and 

 keeps them in old box hives to get the 

 disease and let it spread ito someone 

 who keeps nothing but a fine grade of 

 Italian bees in good frame hives and 

 for this last man to lose all of his fine 

 bees jus't on account lOf the first man's 

 carelessness, or because he was too ig- 

 norant to subscribe for a good bee 

 journal or two. 



Wishing long may ithe Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association live and 

 prosper, I will close. 



M. A. JONES. 



Homer, 111., Jan. 26, 1908. 

 Mr. Jas. A. Stone: 



Will say regarding foul brood. I 

 have kept bees for over 20 years, but 

 with poor success -on account of foul 



brood. It has twice wiped out about all 

 the bees I had. 



There are but few bees left in this 

 part of Ilinois. I tried ito cure foul 

 brood by the transferring plan. 



I see J. Q. Smith is president of the 

 State AsS'Ociation and also State Foul 

 Brood Inspector. When he inspects 

 bees who pays the expense? 



I had twelve weak colonies lefit last 

 June, all affected with foul brood, and 

 made three colonies from the twelve. 1 

 now have seven left, but foul brood 

 still exists about one mile from here. 

 JACOB SEIBOLD. 



Fulton, 111., Jan. 29, 1908. 

 Jas. A. Stone, 



Dear Sir: I hope we will be able to 

 get a good foul brood law soon. While 

 the present law has been a great help 

 yet it seems to me greater good could 

 be accomplished if we had a more 

 strict law and a little more money with 

 which to pay more inspectors. 



I know that in Whiteside county foul 

 brood has caused ithe loss of thousands 

 of dollars to its bee-keepers. My own 

 loss I estimate at over $500. 



I can get rid of it in my lOwn apiary 

 but I have a few careless neighbors, 

 and even some who declare there is 

 no such disease as foul brood. "Just 

 bad seasons is all that ails the bees," 

 they say. Such persons leave their old 

 dead colonies exposed and are a con- 

 stant source for spreading disease. One 

 such neighbor has only one colony left 

 out of 125 or so. I don't believe he will 

 bother much longer as the moths and 

 mice have pretty well cleaned up his 

 old hives. Thanks to the pests. 



The disease is in this locality to sitay 

 unles-s we can get a more efficient law. 



We need one that will compel the in- 

 spection of each apiary and also that 

 will compel each bee-keeper to use due 

 care to prevent it'he spread of the dis- 

 ease. I earnestly hope such a law may 

 be enacted. 



Respectfully, 



W. G. LAWRENCE. 



Ava, Hi., Jan. 23, 1908. 

 Mr. Stone: 



I had foul brood for 6 j^ears among 

 my bees, and lost nearly all of them. 

 But for 10 years have "had no sign of it. 

 I believe there is no cure for it but 'to 

 take Ithe hive's contents away from the 

 bees. I tried 'that; it cured. 



We need a law to make people keep 

 all decaying brood out of the reach of 



