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SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



treat all, and the damage is about as 

 much hi dollars as losing your bees 

 right out and out. It is impossible 

 to keep our bees away so it is spread 

 out to the four winds of the world 

 and we have no protection. What we 

 need is a good foul brood law to stop 

 the careless spread of the germs. I 

 don't feel able to enter into this Asso- 

 ciation, but I think it needs my dol- 

 lar to help establish a much needed 

 law. 



J. F. GROUP. 



Coatsburg, 111., Jan. 21, 1908. 

 Dear Sir: We (the bee-keepers) are 

 in need of foul brood laws ito stamp out 

 the disease known as foul brood and to 

 prevent the ispreading of the disease 

 as it is the most dangerous thing the 

 bee-keepers have to contend with. 



F. A. MEISE. 



Morton, 111., Jan. 19, 1908. 

 Dear Sir: I am not personally ac- 

 quainted wiith foul brood, buit I do 

 think my bees have it now. I am not 

 a very experienced bee-keeper. This is 

 my third year, so I have a good deal 

 to learn yet. Bee-keepers surely need 

 the protection of a foul brood law. 

 Yours truly, 



HERMAN J. GEIER. 



Spraying During Fruit Bloom. 



Spring Valley, 111., Jan. 20, 1908. 

 I lost bees heavily during fruit-bloom 

 five years ago. I thought ithey were 

 poisioned though it would be hard to 

 prove it, but I know there was a man 

 going round spraying fruit trees in the 

 city at the same time. 



PETER J. NORBERG. 



Morton, 111., January, 1908. 

 It wull simply poison the bees 

 if anything like Paris Green is used to 

 spray. Some of US' use soap suds and 

 coal oil. I do not think that will hurt 

 the ibees. 



HERMAN GEIER. 



Mapleton, 111., January, 1908. 

 Yes, several years ago I lost six- 

 teen colonies one year and the next 

 seventeen from spraying. 



GEO. B. SLACK. 



Ava, 111., January, 1908. 

 My bees were reduced from crowded 

 to weakness in both 1904 and 1905 afiter 

 spraying by neighbors. 



A. B. PHOENIX. 



Spraying. 



Ava, 111., Jan. 23, 1908. 

 Mr. Stone: The greatest evil to us 

 down here is spraying in full bloom of 

 apple and peach. The bees will be 

 nearly at swarming stage and then in a 

 few mornings the old ones are gone ^ 

 and the young can't keep heat and food 

 ready. They then have to build up 

 again and that itakes so long clover is 

 nearly over before they are ready to 

 give us surplus that we fail and if 

 fall bloom fails we have no honey. 

 Stahl pushes the spraying at that time 

 and they heed it in spite of evidence 

 other ways. 



A. B. PHOENIX. 



Meredosia, 111., Jan., 1908. 

 Very little spraying done around 

 here, but it is a deadly weapon in the 

 hands of an ignorant fruit grower. 



FRED H. MAY. 



Report of the Chicago- Northwestern 

 Bee- Keepers' Convention. 



The 17th annual convention of the 

 Chicago-Northwestern Bee - Keepers' 

 Association was held in the Briggs 

 House, Chicago, Dec^5 and 6, 1907, 

 with Pres. George AV. York in the 

 chair. j 



Mr. Dadant, Mr. Kannenberg and Dr. 

 Bohrer were appointed as an Auditing 

 Committee. 



Dr. Miller, Mr. Kimmey and Miss 

 Chandler were appointed a Commit- 

 tee on Memorials. 



Cooking Sugar Syrup for Feeding Bees. 



"Is syrup best cooked for bees? 



R. L. Taylor said not to cook it if 

 fed early enough. 



The question arose as to whether to 

 use a double cooker. Some said "No," 

 but others said "Yes, if the one that 

 does the cooking is careless, but usu- 

 ally it is not necessary." 

 . Mr. Taylor advised feeding earlier, 

 the food not heated, when the bees will 

 digest it. Dr. Miller said if fed late, 

 feed warm and thick, but it is much 

 preferred to feed early, as the bees will 

 work it over better. 



E. J. Baxter said it was not neces- 

 sary to have it boil at all. 



Dr. G. Bohrer had fed bees 40 years 

 ago. with warm feed. He claimed 

 boiling was not necessary. He fills 

 shallow combs in a super with syrup, 

 and the bees carry it down and seem to 

 do well. 



