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ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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best winter packing for bees. And our 

 President emphasized it by saying, 

 "don't try to winter on poor colonies, 

 poor stores and a lot of honey dew." 



After a lengthy discussion on man- 

 ner in which to proceed to obtain a 

 building for the apiarian exhibit at the 

 State Fair Messrs. Dadant and Dr. 

 Baxter were asked to draft a resolu- 

 tion for our meeting to act upon. 



The result of the election of officers 

 follows : 



For President, Mr. Emil J. Baxter, of 

 Nauvoo, was re-elected for 1916. 



Five Vice-Presidents as follows: 



1st. A. Coppin. 



2d. Dr. Baxter. 



3d. A. L. Kildow. 



4th. J. W. Bo wen. 



5th. Kennith Hawkins. 



Secretary, J. A. Stone, re-elected. 



Treasurer, Charles Becker, re-elected. 



The question of affiliation with the 

 National was taken up and thoroughly 

 discussed and finally voted not to 

 affiliate. 



The Chair appointed as a committee 

 on a building at the Fair the following: 

 Messrs. A. Coppin, Dr. A. C. Baxter 

 and A. L. Kildow; to add others if 

 needed. 



A motion prevailed to appoint a 

 committee of three to take the matter 

 of teaching the uses of honey to the 

 State Superintendent of Schools, for 

 his assistance in having it taught to 

 thie schools of the state and in the 

 classes of domestic science. 



The Chair appointed, as such com- 

 mittee. Messrs. Harry L. King, Kennith 

 Hawkins and Dr. A. C. Baxter. 



A motion was made to adjourn for 

 dinner and a substitute was offered 

 that we adjourn sine die, which latter 

 prevailed, just as we were getting 

 ready to go to the front steps of the 

 Lincoln Library for a group picture. 



The sudden adjournment caused that 

 no resolution of thanks was voted to 

 the Commercial Association. 



President Baxter — You have heard 

 the minutes of the last meeting, what 

 is your pleasure? 



Motion that the minutes be received 

 and placed on file seconded and carried. 



President Baxter — We will have the 

 Secretary's report for the past fiscal 

 year. 



Secretary Stone — Our membership 

 for the year, to date, is just seven 

 more than last year — 192. 



Those joining the Association direct 

 —116. 



Through the Chicago Northwestern 

 —61. 



Through the Northern Illinois and 

 Southern Wisconsin — 16. 



Eighteen members sent in their fees 

 for the National, and 11 added their 

 dollar for the Review. 



On December 9th, last. Col. Charles 

 F. Mills passed to his reward after his 

 long and useful life. His name stands 

 at the head of our list of charter mem- 

 bers; and he was the principal mover 

 in the organization of this Association. 

 But few men ever lived as useful lives 

 as did Col. Chas. F. Mills. As an 

 organizer he had few equals. 



Out of our 15 charter members but 

 seven are now left. 



As your Secretary did not attend 

 either of the field meetings this year he 

 is unable to make any report from 

 them, except that Secretary Bull of the 

 Chicago Northwestern sent in one 

 dozen fees that were obtained at the 

 Chicago meeting on the 15th of July. 



This year at the State Fair was a 

 record breaker in the honey show; 

 more than 6,000 pounds of honey, about 

 5,000 pounds on exhibition, and more 

 than a thousand pounds were extracted 

 in the Association display; besides an 

 additional 500 or 600 pounds of comb 

 honey in the Association display. And 

 there must have been over 300 pounds 

 of beeswax, to say nothing of the vast 

 amount in the fine display made by the 

 Dadants. We noticed a great interest 

 was taken in the Dadant display of 

 apiarian implements, and we think this 

 is a great drawing card in the apiarian 

 department at the fairs. 



We were very much elated over the 

 display that was worked up by our 

 State Fair Building committee; and a 

 very important feature of that was the 

 Assistant Secretary who obtained 34 

 new members and secured the names 

 and addresses of 608 bee-keepers who 

 were the owners of 10,338 colonies of 

 bees. 



After the displays of honey at our 

 State Fair were all in, it was observed 

 fhat there were four displays of comb 

 hcney, . and only three premiums of- 

 fered. And as our premium list com- 

 mittee had asked for an increase in the 



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