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EIGHTH ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE 



His bees are close to a timber. He 

 don't know but that he will have it 

 again next spring. There is the trou- 

 ble, men that have a, great number of 

 bees are fighting this disease, but the 

 fellows that only have a few, they 

 don't care and we can't do anything 

 with them. 



Mr. Spracklen: If there can be any 

 good accomplished by going to the 

 Representatives I will see our Repre- 

 sentative in my district. He is a neigh- 

 bor of mine and I am glad I understand 

 it as I do today, and I can go to him, 

 being posted and understanding what 

 it is, and also, if it would be any ben- 

 efit, I can write to our other man in 

 our district, Mr. McKinley. He is a 

 personal friend of mine. And if it 

 would do any good I can write, but I 

 don't know whether it would have any 

 effect. He is a broad-minded man. 

 I don't do much talking or writing 

 about bees, but I would rather be heard 

 than write. 



Mr. President: Has any one else 

 anything to offer on this subject? 



Mr. Pyle: There has been some talk 

 among the members that they wanted 

 to see Lincoln Monument. This meet- 

 ing has been on since 1:30. I move 

 that this meeting adjourn till 9 o'clock 

 tomorrow morning. 



Mr. Lee: I second the motion. 



Mr. President: It has been regular- 

 ly moved and seconded that we ad- 

 journ till 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, 

 in order that we go and visit the 

 Lincoln Monument. 



Meeting adjourned till 9 o'clock 

 Friday morning, Nov. 20, 1908, 



Morning Session, Nov. 20. 



President Smith called the conven- 

 tion to order as per adjournment of 

 the previous day, and said that the 

 first matter to be taken up would be 

 the reading by Mr. Holekamp. 



Mr. York: Owing to the fact that 

 there are so few here this morning 

 hadn't we better take up a question 

 or two till more come in, and discuss 

 the questions? 



I>r. Miller: The discussion upon 

 the question box you hear and you 

 catch the meaning better, and the pa- 

 per that they read, that will be print- 

 ed in full. I don't know which is bet- 

 ter. It is very important that they 

 should be here for the paper and also 

 for the question box. 



The President: We have yet to 

 hear from four or five subjects and pa- 

 pers. Will we take this paper or the 

 question box? 



Dr. Miller: The paper. 



Mr. Holekamp: What advancement 

 has been made in the discovery of 

 the causes and treatment of diseases 

 amongst honey bees? 



The subject on which I have pre- 

 pared a paper is of the greatest im- 

 portance to the bee industry, since the 

 profit in bee-keeping depends largely 

 on the healthy condition of the col- 

 onies. 



Our Department of Agricultude in 

 Washington employs quite a corps of 

 workers in charge of apiculture and 

 we have depended to a great extent 

 on the investigations of the department 

 to enlighten us on the causes which 

 bring about the diseased conditions of 

 the apiaries. 



It seems, however, as if the experts 

 at Washington are not making much 

 progress in the work of discovering 

 the causes of disease and in finding 

 remedies of successful treatment, there- 

 fore the practical bee-keepers must not 

 relax in experimenting in this line 

 and in comparing notes on what they 

 have observed. 



The most common disease in the 

 middle and western parts of our coun- 

 try is foul brood, or, as it is now 

 named by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, American foul brood. 



This disease is well known to bee- 

 keepers and thanks to the discoveries 

 of that veteran foul brood Inpsector 

 from Ontario, Mr. Wm. McEvoy, is 

 easily cured, if the treatment is un- 

 dertaken by a careful bee-keeper, and 

 in States where proper laws have been 

 enacted, and the eradication of this 

 disease is under the supervision of 

 efficient apiary inspectors, we may en- 

 tertain the hope that this disease will 

 be brought under control. 



As to the disease of European foul 

 brood, a disease which has been prev- 

 alent in the Eastern States and which 

 , seems to be spreading rapidly over 

 other parts of the country, different 

 treatments have been advised. 



At our San Antonio convention Dr. 

 White, of Washington, informed us 

 that American foul brood was caused 

 by a bacillus which he named "bac- 

 illus larvae," while European foul 

 brood, commonly called "black brood,'" 

 was caused by "bacillus alvae." 



