BEE DI8EA8E INSPECTION IN WISCONSIN. 73 



Treatment depends upon the locality. Locality is an important 

 factor, l»ut what we have to do is to find out in what respect the 

 locality is different, whether it is in climatic conditions or in the 

 conditions of the honey flow. We arc in just as much ignorance w hen 

 we attribute difference to "'locality" as if we did not recognize 

 any difference. We must get down to the point where we know the 

 individual factors involved. I anticipate that when some of the 

 discussions that have been carried on this afternoon arc read, they 



will open the eye- of some people that think they have hail some 



experience with disease. We have men from the East and West who 

 have different condition- to contend with. That is one reason why 

 i have heen in favor of an inspectors 1 meeting. Here we get on a 

 common ground. Conditions from different parts of the country arc 

 discussed in a way that you can not obtain practically in any 

 ot her way. 



! have copies here of the laws relating to foul-brood inspection now 

 in force. Some of these are deficient and others have valuable points 

 which ought to he brought out. It seems that the best thine- to do i- 

 to put' a copy of them in the hands of every man who is an inspector, 

 with a List of questions taking up the points which are covered by 

 the Laws, and ask each one to express an opinion concerning them. 

 Then all that expert testimony should he collected and put on record. 

 so that people interested in future changes of Legislation may read 

 it. If there is anyone here that would suggest how this subject 

 should he handled, I should like to hear from him. 



After some discussion, it was finally decided that the Bureau of 

 Entomology he asked to prepare a list of quest ion- to he -cut to all the 

 inspectors. (The future action in regard to this i- discussed in the 

 preface). 



Mi-. France then read the following paper: 



THE HISTORY OF BEE DISEASE INSPECTION IN WISCONSIN. 



By X. E. France, 

 Inspector of Apiaries fot Wisconsin. 



From L870 to L886 bee keeping was one of the profitable agricul- 

 tural pursuits in Wisconsin. There was no limit to the bee pasturage 

 of white clover, besides mile- of basswood timber and Large area- of 

 wild flowers. Comb honey in ;dl kind- of packages sold I'm- from 25 

 to .")() cent- a pound, queen bees for from $3 t<> $10, and full <-(»l<uiie- 

 were from $10 up. 



In L886 one Wisconsin bee keeper received $10,000 in cash from his 

 l.loo colonic.-, and started the first hank of Jefferson, Wis. Ajiother 

 apiary of 250 colonic- yielded in L882 29,000 pounds of honey; in 



