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President York: I should like to 

 have the Resolution Committee meet, 

 so as to report before noon. In place 

 •of Mr. Kimmey on the Resolution 

 Oommittee, I will substitute Mr. Bax- 

 ter, so tjie committee will be Dr. Mil- 

 ler, Mr. Baxter and Mr. Kluck. 



Dr. Miller: I don't like to do any- 

 shirking, but if ypu can put some one 

 else on that committee in my place, 

 I will take it as i great favor. 



President York: I will name Mr. 

 Taylor in place of Dr. Miller. 



Mr. Taylor: Take me ofC. 

 President York: I will let it stand, 

 Mr. Taylor, Mr. Baxter and Mr. Kluck. 



(Recess.) 



President York: We will first (have 

 the report of the Resolution Commit- 

 tee. Mr. Baxter will read the report: 



Mr. Baxter then read a resolution on 

 the foul brood law. 



Park Ridge, Cook County, III., 

 March 24, 1909. 



To the Honorable, the Members of the 

 Senate and- House of Representatives 

 of the State of Illinois: 



Dear Sirs: — 



The following is a copy of a resolu- 

 tion almost unanimously adopted at the 

 regular annual meeting of the Chicago- 

 Northwestern Bee -Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, held at Chicago. 111., December 

 2d and 3d, A. D. 1908: 



Whereas, A certain disease of bees 

 called "foul brood" is widespread and 

 virulent in the State of Illinois; and. 



Whereas, At present no law's are in 

 effect in Illinois upon this subject; and, 



Whereas, Bee-keepers everywhere 

 are almost unanimous as to the press- 

 ing necessity for such legislation, com- 

 monly called "Foul Brood Laws;" and, 



Whereas, A large number of the 

 States have passed such "Foul Brood 

 Laws;" therefore, 



Resolved, That the Chicago-North- 

 western Bee-Keepers' Association in 

 Convention assembled, does hereby pe- 

 tition the Legislature of the State of 

 Illinois to place upon the statute books 

 in State of Illinois certain laws about 

 the suppression of a bee-disease called 

 "foul brood," similar to the Wisconsin 

 law^ about bee-diseases; and. 



Resolved, That the attitude of cer- 

 tain bee-keepers in opposing such leg- 

 islation is a mistaken attitude, and 



that such bee-keepers are not repre- 

 sentative of the bee-keeping industry, 

 but represent only themselves. 



GEORGE "W. YORK, 

 - President. 



HERMAN F. MOORE, 

 Secretary and Treasurer. 



President York: You have all heard 

 the reading of the resolution formu- 

 lated by the Resolution Committee. 

 What will you do with it? 



Mr. Baxter: I move its adoption. 



The motion was seconded. 



Mr. Reynolds: In regard to writing 

 those letters, I wrote letters to the 

 Legislature to stop the foul brood law, 

 and will do it again until I know^ the 

 contents 'Of the foul brood law that it 

 is proposed to pass. The foul brood 

 law you tried to pass before had a 

 clause in it for the inspectoi* to give 

 notice twenty-four hours, giving him 

 authority to burn if it was not done 

 within twenty-four hours. If I was 

 short of supplies, I could not get my 

 supplies in less than ten days; A 

 foul brood law' should give any one 

 plenty of time to clean up, provided he 

 is willing to do so. Until I know- w.hat 

 the foul brood law is, I wall object to it. 



Mr. Smith: I think the gentleman's 

 objection is well taken. That ques- 

 tion was gone over, and it was sug- 

 gested that the inspector, if he should 

 call at a certain place where there was 

 foul brood, would be put to great ex- 

 pense to come back again in ten days, 

 and that form of notice of tw-enty-four 

 hours was so that he could remain on 

 the ground with little expense; but if 

 there is any objection to it on the 

 part of the bee-keepers, we don't want 

 it that way. We don't want to do 

 anything that is arbitrary. If any 

 bee-keeper signifies his w-illingness to 

 clean up as soon as he can get sup- 

 plies, if he should not have the sup- 

 plies on hand necessary to change his 

 bees. I don't think there is any ob- 

 jection. Let it be ten days. We don't 

 want this law to be a loss to any one. 



Mr. Reynolds: Why does that res- 

 olution read "stringent"? 



Mr. Smith: As far as I know, 

 "stringent" means that it gives au- 

 thority. 



Mr. Taylor: Now% this fixing a 

 time — I think that is a great mistake. 

 It isn't necessary to put twenty-four 

 hours, or even ten days. I don't * 

 think any bee-keeper ought to be re- 



