STATE bee-keepers' ASSOCIATION. 107 



Other's. Not so. Here is a man with loo colonies of bees. 



There may be a few diseased colonies — slightly diseased. He 



thoroughly understands the disease and its treatment, and is 



doing all in his power to rid his apiary of the disease. _ As 



fast as he finds a diseased colony he treats it. He has a neigh- x 



bor half a mile away who has four colonies in box-hives, or 



in frame hives with the combs built crosswise ; the hives are % 



old and rotten, the combs are rotten with foul brood, the bees 



few in number, and the colonies will all be dead by spring, 



when the bees from the lOO-colony apiary will come over and 



carry home its diseased honey. The owner may promise to 



destroy the bees but he does not perform. Can you treat 



these two cases alike? I say no. I burn up the colonies, bees, 



hives and combs, slick and clean, and so far I have succeeded 



without recourse to the law. 



Unpleasant business? Well, you try it for awhile, and if 

 you do your duty, and "get rid of foul brood" you will find 

 fully as many thorns as roses. 



The professional bee-keepers give no trouble. They give 

 every possible help and assistance. They look upon the in- ^ 



soector as a friend. He is the man who can compel an obsti- 

 nate neighbor to "clean up" — something that they can't always 

 succeed in doing. 



As I said at the outset, ignorance is the one great ob- 

 stacle. Mr. France has gotten out bulletins that have been 

 scattered far and wide, and I suppose they have been a great 

 aid in his work. I wrote an article describing the disease, 

 giving methods of treatment, together with the law on the sub- 

 ject, accompanied by an engraving showing a comb of brood, '- ^ 

 badly diseased, and this was published in one of the monthly '" 

 ] ulletins of the Dairy and Food Commission, and he had pub- . ' 

 lished 2,500 extra copies. I furnished him a list of 2,000 bee- i 

 keepers in Michigan, and he sent out copies of the bulletin to 

 this list. He gave me 300 or 400 to use in my travels. When 

 a bee-keeper complains of foul brood in his vicinity I send 

 him a dozen of the bulletins to scatter in his vicinity. By the " , -^ 

 time I get^jaround to visit him the bulletins have done more 

 than half of the work. 



Every inspector should have some literature of this kind 

 at his disposal, and bee-keepers should take it upon themselves 

 to see that it gets into the hands of their neighbors. 



Perhaps some good might be done by writing short arti- 

 cles on the subject and having them published in farm papers, 

 and in the general newspapers. " 



W. Z, Hutchinson. 



Mr. York — Are there any questions you would like to 

 ask Mr. Hutchinson? We had this pretty thoroughly dis- 

 cussed yesterday. 



Mr. Abbott — I want to make a motion along that line, "^ 

 that just occurs to me. Mr. Hutchinson suggests sending 

 out these bulletins. It is a thing the National ought to take 

 un, and it seems that right now we might start the influence 

 that would do some work, and I don't see why the National 



