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ignored our society entirely. Then the Secretary wrote me and asked 

 me to send them receipts for the money and I wrote and told him that 

 I had not received anything, and I could not receipt for what I had 

 not received and their names are not on our membership list, although 

 they are in the report. 



Mr. Dadant. — I think this matter will work out satisfactorily. 

 The Northwestern has no controversy with this Association, they 

 charge $1.50 and we get nothing except through the Association. This 

 matter was very annoying to me and I certainly would have rather 

 paid 50 cents a member out of my pocket than to have them think 

 that we were trying to induce them to do a thing that could not be 

 done. 



The President. — I might say in connection with this matter 

 that I was at the meeting Mr. Dadant attended. I will clear him of 

 any blame in that connection. They asked me in regard to joining 

 the State Association and I told them if they sent us the same rate that 

 the Northwestern or their other societies paid, or if they joined and 

 simply formed an adjunct and came into our society paying the same 

 fee that we paid, we would furnish them, as we furnish our members, 

 the report and the American Bee Journal. 'And the Secretary was 

 distinctly instructed to do all business through the Secretary of the 

 State Association. Well, he had gathered up the money and sent it 

 over to Mr. Dadant for subscription to the American Bee Journal and 

 ignored the Secretary of the State Bee-Keepers' Association. So they 

 had just paid the subscriptions to the Bee Journal and had not joined 

 the State Bee-Keepers' Association. 



Mr. Ressinger. — I move you that we advance the fees of the 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association to $1.50, to equal the North- 

 western. 



The President. — Do I hear a second to that motion? 



The Secretary. — I hope nobody will second that. 



Mr. Heinzel. — I will second it. 



The President. — State your objections, Mr. Stone. 



The Secretary. — A year or two ago I got papers from a Canadian 

 Bee-Keepers' Association and the report of their treasurer showed 

 that they had paid out nearly all that they received as fees for bee 

 journals, and they had a membership of nearly one thousand, and I 

 could not understand why they had such a big membership; but when 

 I saw the way they spent their, money, that they only had a little fee 

 from the members and the rest all went for the bee journals, that was 

 what put me on the track; corresponding with Mr. Dadant to know 

 what rate they would make to us for the Bee Journal, also with Root 

 they gave us those rates. We did not need the money in the treasury. 

 You observe we took in $125 and my salary is all that is paid out of 

 it, $100, and $25 that will now be carried in the treasury for we don't 

 need it, and I believe in making it just as cheap as we can. 



Mr. Heinzel. — Yes, it is the membership that counts, not the 

 money. 



The President. — Well, we will put it to a vote, after discussion. 

 Has anyone else anything to say on this question? 



