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THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 





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the disease, it must be treated or it is a violation of the law, 

 and the man allows you to inspect or treat his bees. 



Mr. Pottenger — There is a man keeping bees near Kan- 

 kakee, who says he would like to see someone come into his 

 yard He would not permit anyone to come in and see it 

 at all. 



Mr. Whitney — If you had the Wisconsin law he would. 

 Mr. France — The first summer out I had to meet men 

 at the gate with a shotgun or a bulldog, who demanded me 

 to—. 



A Member — The official has the authority of a sheriff, 

 and if they undertake to bother you, give them over to the 

 authorities, and you treat the disease. If a man interferes, 

 put him under cover. 



Mr. Smith — That's what we want. 



Mr. France — I would suggest that in order to get that 

 law it will be necessary to show how much benefit your As- 

 sociation, through your inspector, has had through the ap- 

 propriation, and how much more has gone undone because of 

 the need of this law. 



Mr. Smith — We will have a report of that kind. 

 Pres. York — The legislature meets a year from this 

 winter. 



Mr. Kanenburg — Why didn't they put in that clause in 

 the first place? When we put in our bill we were a little 

 later than the men of the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, so of course our bill was a little too late. If that 

 clause had been in, I suppose we would have gotten the law 

 just the same. I know Representative Austin would have 

 gotten that just as well as the law we did get. 



Mr. Smith — We interviewed the members of the Ap- 

 propriation Committee and they refused to put anything in 

 in a compulsory way; said that it would not pass, and there- 

 fore we put it in in this way. We thought this would be an 

 entering wedge. 



Pres. York — It was either that or nothing. 

 Mr. Kanenburg — This law was put out of the tracks al- 

 together, and if it hadn't beeti for Mr. Austin we wouldn't 

 have had it. 



Dr. Miller — As Mr. Smith has placed before us, they 

 would do nothing about a law if you insisted on putting this 

 compulsory clause in it. They said we will give you the ap- 

 propriation. The question was, Shall we take the appropria- 

 tion and get a little done by it? and I believe they were very 

 wise in taking it. We haven't any foul brood law. Let's get 

 one. He can tell them at the next legislature. Here, you gave 

 us so much, and we can do so much good with that, but we 

 need a law if we are going to do any good. 



Mr. Smith — The idea was this : By getting this appro- 

 priation — of course, it was late last summer when we got it 

 into our hands, and too late to do anything to amount to 

 much, and we thought this winter we could have pamphlets 

 printed on this subject and distributed all over the State to 

 every bee-keeper, and published in the farm journals, and 



