ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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President Baxter — I think it would 

 be a good idea. 



Mr. Dadant — In accordance with 

 your request, the Resolution Commit- 

 tee offers the following Resolution: 



Resolution. 



Resolved, That the Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association recommend 

 that the card system be adopted in the 

 inspection of bees within the state and 

 that the bees in the counties which 

 contain the largest amount of disease 

 be thoroughly examined and treated, 

 aiming to treat several counties to- 

 gether within a certain area, until the 

 entire state is cleaned up. 



C. P. DADANT, 

 A. L. KILDOW, 

 AARON COPPIN. 



Motion was made, seconded and car- 

 ried that this Resolution be adopted. 



President Baxter — Our next number 

 is, "Selling Honey," by N. E. France. 

 Have you his paper? 



Mr. Stone — He failed to send a 

 paper. I looked for him until this 

 morning and had hopes he would be 

 here today. He did not send it — but, 

 Mr. President, I will put in this report 

 the letter from Mr. Hawkins. 



Mr. Hawkins refers his report to Dr. 

 Baxter, and I will ask Dr. Baxter to 

 read his letter: 



To the members of the Illinois State 



Bee-Keepers' Association, assembled. 



Greeting: 



At the 1915 meet, I was named 

 Chairman of a Committee to further 

 knowledge of bee-keeping in the Public 

 Schools of the state. I am glad to re- 

 port the following progress: 



After considerable correspondence 

 with the Hon. Mr. Blair, it appeared 

 that a good method of accomplishing 

 the purpose of my instructions from 

 the association was to prepare a paper. 

 This paper Mr. Blair agreed to incor- 

 porate in the annual Bird and Arbor 

 Day Book, a free publication of the 

 Illinois Department of Public Instruc- 

 tion, which is sent early each spring 

 to every teacher of natural science in 

 Illinois, for their use under instructions 

 from the State Superintendent of In- 

 struction. It is also available to all 

 other teachers without cost, for the 

 asking. 



Because of season work, Mr. Dadant, 

 with whom I conferred in the matter, 

 suggested getting up the paper this 



winter. This is being done, and, be- 

 fore the paper goes to the State Edu- 

 cational office as printers' copy, I 

 shall submit to Mr. C. P. Dadant, for 

 suggestions, and the members of my 

 committee, for approbation. 



This course I hope meets with your 

 approval and is the easiest way of ac- 

 complishing our ends with a minimum 

 of time expenditure. 



The names of the committee are not 

 given here since my records in the 

 matter are in Illinois and I only re- 

 member Dr. Baxter was a member. 



They will pardon this, I am sure. 



Any suggestions from the Associa- 

 tion will be received gratefully. 



(Signed) Kennith Hawkins. 



President Baxter — You have heard 

 the report, what is your pleasure? 



A member — I move the report be 

 received and the committee be con- 

 tinued with change of one member 

 as made necessary. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



President Baxter — Dr. Baxter, Chair- 

 man; Mr. King is another member — 

 and for the third member? 



Dr. Baxter — In appointing this com- 

 rnittee; I understood I was to continue 

 as the Chairman of the committee of 

 the State Fair Building Exhibit. I am 

 willing to work, but I do not want to 

 try to do it all; it cannot be done. 



I would rather j^ou would put on 

 some other man as Chairman of that 

 committee. 



President Baxter — I will do that. 



Mr. Pyles — As I understood the mo- 

 tion, it was that this committee be 

 continued. 



Mr. Dadant — Mr. Hawkins resigns; 

 he was Chairman. 



President Baxter — We will take that 

 under advisement; I will appoint the 

 Chairman later. 



President Baxter — The next number 

 on the program this morning is the 

 paper of Mr. Dadant. 



Mr. Dadant — Before I speak on this 

 subject I find that, although we of- 

 fered premiums of $5.00, $4.00, $3.00, 

 $2.00 and $1.00 for essays, there have 

 been^ no essays forwarded. Have 

 there, Mr. Secretary? 



Mr. Stone — No, sir, not so far. 



Mr. Dadant — I just found out I have 

 two essays, one inside of the other, 

 and so I think it looks pretty bad for 



