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ILUNOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' . ASSOCIATION 



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for extension work among bee-keepers 

 in the various states, be increased to 

 $50,000. 



Under the present Association, only 

 a few men can be sent out. With the 

 larger sum, sufficient men could be 

 sent to do a vast amount of good. 



President Baxter — Tou have heard 

 the purport of this resolution and what 

 is wanted. What is your pleasure? 



Mr. Heinzel — I make a motion we 

 adopt this resolution. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



Mr. Dadant — The south needs this 

 work to be. begun down there. 



The fact of the matter is that in the 

 south there is very .little progressive 

 bee-keeping. 



Beeswax comes from people who 

 don't know anything about the actual 

 value of beeswax to their bees; comes 

 from the southern states. I used to 

 wonder why bee-keepers from the 

 south ordered so little stuff. It is in 

 the south that money must be ex- 

 pended for us because it is more 

 needed down there. 



We might say that we must have 

 proportionately more than Rhode 

 Island because we are much bigger. I 

 think we should give the education 

 where it is most needed. 



In the United States, if each state is 

 going to withdraw because it is not 

 getting its full proportion, we will be 

 in a constant wrangle. And we better 

 separate and be independent states. 



Mr. Root— The very purpose of get- 

 ting this increase is not only to take 

 care of the interests in the south, but 

 in the north. 



Mr. Pellet and myself asked for 

 $50,000, to cover the entire United 

 States. - 



When I got there I saw there was a 

 regime of economy, and they refused 

 to give us anything. As I told you yes- 

 terday, I went in there and insisted on 

 getting something, and the very least 

 we could ask for was $5,000. 



In view of the very great need of 

 work being done in the south, it was 

 thought best by Dr. Phillips to put 

 that extension work in the south, with 

 the idea that we go back to Congress 

 and ask for $45,000 more, in all, $50,000. 



We may not get it, but Dr. Phillips' 

 purpose, as I understand it, is to dis- 

 tribute these men as far as he can over 

 the north as well as the south, and 

 under present conditions he can only 



cover the places that need it most, that , 

 being South Carolina, of which Mr. 

 Lever, chairman of the committee, is a 

 resident. 



With the present appropriation of . 

 $5,000, the northern states cannot be 

 covered, and but very little of the 

 south. With $50,000, it would cover the • 

 whole of the United States. 



It is an effort on the part of the 

 federal government to help .out the 

 various states. 



A Member^ — I have not heard it ex- 

 plained how this is going to help the 

 bee-keepers of this Association. 



President Baxter — ^Don't you think it 

 will help by improving bee-keeping 

 conditions in the country? 



A Member — I don't believe these ex- 

 tension men can help us very much. 



President Baxter — We may be some 

 of those extension workers. 



President Baxter — This extension 

 work is under a new scheme; it origi- 

 nated under Mr. Roosevelt's adminis- 

 tration. It was instituted for the bene- 

 fit of the south because the south was 

 backward in its agricultural work, and 

 they sent workers through the poorest 

 of the south. The developments have 

 been wonderful where these extension 

 workers have worked. 



Then the Page bill was introduced in 

 Congress to increase this extension 

 work, and the Lever's bill succeeded 

 that bill and passed. 



We were given extension work in the 

 north here. We got an appropriation 

 of this money, and for so many county 

 advisers in this state. It is no more ^ 

 than just that we should have a por- ^ 

 tion of this to the bee-keepers. 



Mr. Root — The purpose of this par- 

 ticular appropriation is to send out 

 bee experts to enlighten extension 

 workers who are in the field or to be 

 placed in the field. It enlarges the 

 sphere of the Lever law. 



When I explained to him that this 

 law could be made more operative by 

 a further appropriation, he was inter- 

 ested. 



As soon as the state itself, in the 

 southern states, can raise a small sum 

 of money they will take care of these 

 men. They are now so much in the 

 dark. Some of the finest territory for — , 

 bees in the United States is in the 

 southeastern part of the United States, .i 

 There are more bees kept today in that s' 

 portion of the United States than any ^ 



