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When honey comes from Colorado 

 and from California — and it goes on the 

 market, that honey has to be sold at a 

 reasonable price because it cannot be 

 sold otherwise. 



Mr. Roehrs — Last July, when every- 

 body reported at our Convention he 

 was expecting a big crop of white 

 clover honey, everybody felt — "If I 

 only can dispose of my honey first." 



Now this year, with no honey to 

 amount to much — it has been dumped 

 into Chicago from the west, and the 

 prices are going up — so I think it has a 

 little to do with the prices — coming 

 from the west. 



In California and in Colorado, in the 

 irrigating regions, they are raising 

 honey much more than we are. 



I think we should know what may be 

 expected from the western country. 

 This year they have no honey crop 

 whatever, and if that honey had been 

 in the ntiarket I know at my place the 

 prices would have been different. 



Mr. Bull — The wholesale figures do 

 not have much variation. This com- 

 mittee cannot say very much in regard 

 to wholesale prices. If we can control 

 the retail prices amongst ourselves we 

 have accomplished a wonderful thing. 



Mr. Kannenberg — If our Secretary 

 should go to work and print these 

 pamphlets and send them out to Wis- 

 consin, Iowa and Michigan — why not go 

 to work and co-operate with all these 

 other associations in Wisconsin, Ind- 

 iana, Michigan, and so on, and let them 

 do their share also, and appoint, a 

 comniittee the same as 'we do, and I 

 think under that condition we can save 

 some money and have a little left in 

 the treasury. 



President Miller — I think the right 

 committee will take care of that; the 

 limitations will have to be considered — 

 go so far as we can provided they have 

 the funds to do with and the time to 

 do the work. 



Now we have the question before the 

 assembly: Are you ready for the 

 question — 



Shall such a committee be ap- 

 pointed ? 



All in favor of appointing such a com- 

 mittee, signify it by saying Aye; con- 

 trary No, 



Motion carried. 



President Miller — ^How shall this 

 committee be appointed? 



Mr. Wilcox — I move the officers of 

 this society or the executive commit- 

 tee constitute that committee. 



President Miller — I object to that, 

 personally. 



Mr. Bull — We do not know who the 

 officers will be; they may be men who 

 could handle that all right and they 

 may not be. 



I would say appoint those men — 

 whether officers or not — the officers 

 will have enough to do without should- 

 ering them with more work. 



Mr. Wilcox — I might amend that 

 motion and say, the officers who will 

 be elected. 



President Miller — ^I think we should 

 be very careful. W^e should appoint 

 representative men; they should be 

 producers rather than dealers. They 

 should be one from each section; we 

 must watch those things. 



Is it desirable to the assembly that 

 the Chair appoint these men? 



Mr. Anguish — I should say it should 

 be left to the officers to appoint these 

 men. 



^President Miller — There is a motion 

 before the house — Mr, Wilcox's motion. 



President Miller — Is there any other 

 motion? It has been suggested that 

 th^ committee be appointed by the 

 Chair; is there any naotion? 



Mr. Kannenberg — I make a motion 

 ""that a committee be appointed by the 

 President of the Association. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



President Miller — ^In the appointing 

 of this committee we want to represent 

 the different sections; we want them to 

 be producers rather than dealers, al- 

 though they may be both. 



Mr. Kannenberg — I was not here last 

 night — but has this Association joined 

 the State Association? 



I would make a motion that this As- 

 sociation join in a body the Illinois 

 State Association. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



President Miller — ^We will have a 

 paper by Mr. L. C Dadant of Hamilton, 

 Illinois, on the Prevention of Swarm- 

 ing. 



(Similar paper was read at the 

 Springfield convention — see page 77 

 this report.) 



President Miller — This is a very in- 

 teresting paper. 



Mr. Roehrs — I am very much pleased 

 with this paper. There are some very 

 vital points, and I need knowledge; I 



