ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATrON. 33 



Chicago Northwestern will be paying $1.50, Southern Illinois $1.50, 

 and the lUinois River Valley will pay $1.50 and we will not come into 

 conflict with our financial business if we do that. 



Mr. Kildow. — I do not know just exactly what the Fox River 

 fees are, but the Chicago Northwestern pays $1.50. If we pay $1.50, 

 that will make $3. 



The President. — No, they pay 50 cents out of their dues to us. 



Mr. Kildow. — That makes them members. It seems that would 

 work out all right. 



The President. — You see, under the present condition, a man 

 who lives in Chicago can pay $1 and belong to our Association. If he 

 wants to join through the Northwestern he will have to pay $1.50 

 and it may work a hardship on the Northwestern and I have had some 

 objection during the past year from the members of that Association. 

 They could not understand why we did not have our dues the same as 

 others, so that a man would belong to the Association at home which 

 I really, personally, believe is the place for him to belong, while he 

 can belong to our society by getting in under that rule. I would like 

 to hear a little discussion about the matter. 



Mr. Dad ant. — In "regard to the Illinois Valley Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, I was present at their meeting and after I got home one 

 of them wrote me, I think as President, that I had agreed to make 

 them members of the State Association and furnish them the American 

 Bee Journal, all for $1, and I did not remember any such promise. 

 I think that their membership fee was $1, they may have changed it. 

 But the man became so personal that I wrote that I would pay for their 

 membership in this Association if they insisted on it, and I wrote to 

 our Secretary. I don't know whether our Secretary remembers it. 

 Are you sure that they charge $1.50. 



The President. — I was informed that they were going to raise 

 it to $1.50. 



Mr. Dadant. — Well, that would make it right. You see they 

 could still have a little money, make a subscription to the Journal and 

 pay their membership to the State Association. There was evidently 

 a misunderstanding. I showed them the reasoning, thought it was 

 very plain, but he cut it short by saying that that was my agreement, 

 he didn't care how things were, that we would have to abide by the 

 agreement. I believe it will be best to have the entire membership 

 at the same price and let them become members of our Association 

 through their Association. Then what our Secretary complains of, 

 that the Association got less out of our members than it got out of the 

 members that came through the other Associations would be then 

 changed. We would get then 75 cents from our members and 50 

 cents from members outside. 



The President. — Anyone else have anything to say? 



Mr. Stone. — That got to be a very great mix-up; the President 

 was up there and I understand told them distinctly they would have 

 to send their dollar to the Secretary of the State Association and then 

 they would get membership and the American Bee Journal. Instead 

 of that they sent their mpney off to the American Bee Journal and 



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