ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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safe side, with so little trouble and 

 expense, I say it is better to disinfect 

 the hive. 



As far as brushing is concerned, the 

 inspector should carry a little vial of 

 carbolic acid, to use when he gets 

 through brushing. If he uses an ordi" 

 nary brush, he is not going to have 

 many loose pieces of brush, and when 

 he gets through he can wash his hands 

 in that carbolic acid solution and wash 

 his broom out, and there is no danger 

 of infection from that; he can go to 

 the next hive, and he can wash his 

 brush or burn it. 



Mr. Pyles — Would you believe it is 

 possible to kill the spore of foul brood 

 with a solution weak enough that you 

 can wash your hands in? 



Mr. Moore — It would stay there in 

 the water; a very slight solution of 

 carbolic acid would destroy it. 



Mr. Coppin — Before I start the work, 

 1 take a number of grasses, put a bit 

 of twine around them and make my 

 brusiies; I brush the bees off, in order 

 to prevent spilling any on the ground; 

 i brush them off in front and let them 

 run in as quickly as I can do it; then 

 this brush can be burned up and get 

 beyond the reach of th3 bees as quick- 

 ly as possible; that is le.ss trouble than 

 V, ashing; it is the best bee brush I 

 know of. 



^'resident Kildovv — I have used the 

 Baldridge plan a good many times; it 

 is all right if you are around your 

 apiary, so you can look after it; it is 

 all right if a man is in his yard all 

 the time and has good hives, where he 

 can watch them, but you want to 

 know your bees. 



Mr. Bowen — They sometimes will 

 slip out through the bee- escape; the 

 bee-escapes are not always perfect. 



Mr. Coppiii — I have never tried that 

 method. What is there to stop the 

 bees from the upper hive in rearing 

 young queens? 



President Kildow — I have had them 

 rear them a number of times, and have 

 had the young queen get out of Va-i 

 bee-escape, but not generally — not as a 

 rule. 



Mr. Werner — ^Very seldpm. 



Mr. Moore — ^It would not interfere 

 with the success of it if they reared 

 a young queen. She would get out 

 through the escapte, and the chances 

 are when she got below that either she 

 or the old queen would die. 



Mr. York — If the discussion on foul 

 b^ocd is finished, I would move that 

 we make a list of the names of the 

 men who are candidates for foul brood 

 inspector; I don't know how many can- 

 didates there are here. It seems to me 

 it would be well to proceed to elect 

 some one; undoubtedly, there are sev- 

 eral candidates here who are well 

 qualified for the position; so far as I 

 know, one is as well qualified as the 

 other; if we elect one, in case deputies 

 are needed, he can appoint. 



Mr. Stone — When we have a foul 

 brood inspector elected, he will be a 

 competent man, and he will find a man 

 to assist him who is just as competent; 

 and when he finds a neighborhood in 

 which there is foul brood, and finas a 

 man in that neighborhood that is com- 

 petent to handle foul brood, and can 

 do it cheaper than he can, he will em- 

 ploy that man to do it; like our late 

 foul brood inspector did. 



I am going to nominate a man who, 

 as our late President said, can do the 

 work just as well as he could, so he 

 sent them to a man that I shall name. 



I don't think we can be too car-i- 

 ful about this, to get the right kind of 

 a man in. 



Mr. Bowen — I would not be in b3 

 much of a hurry about selecting a foul 

 brood inspector. I went into the Odd 

 Fellows' Lodge this morning; there 

 was a big crowd, and I made inquiry 

 as to the cause of such a crowd, and 

 was told they were getting their war- 

 rants for their pay. What did that 

 mean? It would mean that if you go 

 into the Odd Fellows' Association this 

 afternoon, you would find it very much 

 depleted in numbers, because many of 

 them have got their pay and gone; a 

 good many of them — that is about the 

 main interest they take — getting their 

 pay. 



A number of the men here are in- 

 terested in becoming foul brood in- 

 spector, and if a foul brood inspector 

 is selected now, I think we may find 

 ourselves depleted in numbers, so I 

 think we would better wait and elect 

 a foul brood inspector tomorrow! 



Mr. Bowen — Before we elect officers 

 or inspector, w-e should have a re- 

 port from the Auditing Committee. 



Mr. Moore — You will have that the 

 first thing in the morning. 



President Kildow— Any special time 

 for election? 



