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ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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like to have one or two cases to prac- 

 tice on in the future, but I don't want 

 a. whole lot of it like that again. 



Dr. Bohrer — Did the bees become 

 •discouraged, as in the case of Ameri- 

 can foul brood? Did they lie about the 

 •entrance, in a despondent, crestfallen 

 manner? 



Dr. Miller — I don't think so. Mr. 

 Smith, the State inspector, came and 

 looked things over, and he said: "Oh, 

 you haven't foul brood bad; it is not 

 bad; it is just a litle naughty." But 

 I don't know as to comparing it with 

 specimens of American foul brood; I 

 should say it was not very bad. There 

 is another thing that is important to 

 be considered: It may be that the dis- 

 ease was not so bad there as it is in 

 many other cases. 



President York — ^We have had two 

 talks on the subject of foul brood — 

 some real experiences — now . for the 

 paper written by Mr. C. P. Dadant, 

 who was invited to prepare a paper 

 on "Legislation Needed, and How to 

 Get It." Mr. Dadant was elected Pres- 

 ident of the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association at Springfield, two or 

 three weeks ago, and he is very much 

 interested in this question. Secretary 

 Moore will read the paper. 



Meeded Legislation and How to Get It. 



The Secretary asked me to write a 

 five-minute paper on the above sub- 

 ject. 



I know of only one question of legis- 

 lation now agitating the bee meetings 

 of Illinois, and, if I judge, by the last 

 meeting of the State Association at 

 Springfield, it is the foul brood ques- 

 tion. 



I believe the State Association has 

 taken the proper method of beginning 

 tlie work on this subject for the next 

 session of the legislature. They have 

 elected a committee of twelve mem- 

 Tiers on legislation. This committee is 

 to keep active until the Legislature 

 meets. '^ 



How are we to get the needed law? 

 By a continuous action and a united 

 effort among the bee-keepers. More 

 States are passing laws on this sub- 

 ject every year, and sooner or later 

 Illinois will fall in the ranks of the 

 progressive ones. It is in this as in 

 the matter of spraying. It has been 

 easier to secure a compulsory law on 

 spraying in the young States than in 

 tlie old ones. The result is that they 



succeed in producing sound fruit in 

 those States that enforce the spraying 

 laws. But although 'Illinois is one of the 

 most progressive and one of the best, 

 if not the very best, producing 

 of the States, it has not felt the need 

 of compulsory laws until it found itself 

 distanced in the race by younger com- 

 munities. 



That we will succeed, whenever we 

 go at it with a will, is not to be 

 doubted. 



If the Chicago Northwestern Asso- 

 ciation is as enthusiastic on this matter 

 of legislation as the Central As- 

 sociation of the State has shown itself 

 to be, let it also elect a committee of 

 twelve or more to act in unison with 

 the committee of the State Associa- 

 tion, and let it be composed of men 

 who are determined to work for the 

 good of the cause without a rest until 

 a result is secured which conforms 

 with our all but unanimous desires. 



Petitions should be circulated and 

 signed by bee-keepers all over the 

 State. These petitions should be put 

 in the hands of influential politicians 

 in the Legislatures, for politics and 

 bee-culture must for once join hands. 



If you fail, do as before, try, try 

 again. There is not the shadow of a 

 doubt about your ultimate success. 

 The ignorant or ill-intentioned opposi- 

 tion will sooner or later fall before 

 you like a straw before a blaze. 



C. P. DADANT. 



President York — Now, we have had 

 the two talks, and paper of Mr. Da- 

 dant, and it seems to me that we might 

 as well finish up the question this 

 afternoon. W^e will then throw open 

 the question for discussion by the 

 members of the Association: 



Dr. Bohrer — The doctor called at- 

 tention to the matter of not taking the 

 honey away from the bees, in the case 

 of European foul brood. Don't ever 

 risk anything of that kind in the case 

 of American foul brood, and don't use 

 a comb that has ever been in the hive 

 that has been occupied iby bees dis- 

 eased with American foul brood. If 

 there happens to ^be one particle of 

 scale or dead larvae glued fast to the 

 bottom of the cell that has been in- 

 fected with foul brood, sooner or later 

 you will find that it has been spread; 

 don't ever risk not taking away that 

 honey from the bees. What honey I 

 have on hand, I have been trying to 

 think how to use it. I can't get the 



