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brood in the apiary of a neighbor. I would send word to 

 Mr. Smith that I wanted him to come there, and he comes. 

 I don't know enough about it to decide whether it is foul 

 brood or not, and I will go with him over to the neighbor's, 



and the neighbor says, "You go to , France !" and Mr. 



Smith and I will have no chance to go in there, and if there 

 was a law back of him we could go in there, at least Mr. 

 Smith could, and I suppose I could go with him if he ap- 

 pointed me to assist him, and we could do what can be done 

 toward eradicating that disease there. Now I am helpless. 

 Anyone who has foul brood can come and set it down within 

 half a mile of my place and I can't help myself, and it isn't 

 germane to the question whether I can tell a man who was 

 helped this much and that much, and it is germane to use 

 something analogous. The fact is that smallpox has never 

 been wiped out. It is in existence now in the same form 

 that it was when I was a boy, and in spite of all the laws and 

 endeavors it continues, but you don't see people marked with 

 smallpox to-day as when I was a boy, because it is sup- 

 pressed. Smallpox isn't foul brood. Foul brood can be sup- 

 pressed to an extent. Suopose now it is entirely wiped out. 

 Even then I am safer if I can have done what can be done 

 with a diseased apiary close to me. There is no sort of a 

 question but what a great deal can be done to overcome it. 

 Some of the New England States have foul brood laws ; also 

 in Colorado. Michigan, etc. They have them in Canada. 

 They have had them for years. They are tried there. In 

 Canada, Mr. McEvoy did a grand work. If there had been 

 no foul brood inspector, wouldn't it have gone on and wiped 

 out all the bees? They have their bees there is spite of the 

 disease. Now if there is a law that obliees a man to do what 

 he can to crush out the disease, that will be a help to me, no 

 matter if he is clear over on the Wisconsin line. Mr. France 

 is helping me because I am only 15 miles from Wisconsin, 

 and any day it may come — within two years at least — to my 

 -place. There is no question but what we need the foul 

 brood law, and the States that do have it don't go back on it. 

 They have it, and don't say it isn't of any use, and we won't 

 have it. We need the law, and we need to do what we can. 

 I venture to say that there is more foul brood in Wisconsin 

 than is desirable, notwithstanding the good work Mr. France 

 is doing, and he will be old and gray-headed, but it would be 

 a great deal worse if they didn't have a foiil brood insoector 

 there. We simply have that appropriation, and Mr. Smith 

 has done — I don't say how much, but he cannot do what he 

 ought to do until we get the law. I want it for my own per- 

 sonal security. 



Mr. Moore — It seems to me that perhaps this discussion 

 has gone on about long enough, but if you will oardon me, 

 I will give an illustration. How many times, Mr. Smith, have 

 you tried to get a law since 1894? 



Mr. Smith — Every legislature. 



Mr. Moore — ^Last fall there was ground broken to get 

 a law for bee-keepers. Mr, Smith and the State Association 



