ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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eggs; she must have )3een an old queen 

 or she was badly fertilized. 



Pres. Baxter — Tomorrow we want to 

 take up some discussions which I have 

 recommended, and, for the benefit of 

 those who are here now and didn't hear 

 the suggestions that were made this 

 morning, I will read a part of the 

 President's address of this morning: 



(President reads from his address.) 



"There is one subject that I want to 

 bring to your attention, which should 

 interest every bee-keeper in Illinois 

 and which should receive his best 

 thought and his undivided and un- 

 selfish consideration. That is, co-opera- 

 tion among bee-keepers — its aim and 

 scope, and how best can it be accom- 

 plished." 



I would recommend that the matter 

 be thoroughly discussed at this meet- 

 ing. 



Another question of importance to 

 the members of the Affiliated Associa- 

 tion is the present status of the Na- 

 tional Bee-Keepers' Association — 



"Should the National Association be 

 re -organized to take up this work, and, 

 if so, to what extent should this co- 

 operation be taken up? Or should the 

 matter of co-operation be limited to 

 state organization exclusively? This 

 is a deep subject of vast importance 

 to the bee-keeping fraternity of every 

 state, and it should be carefully studied 

 and considered, and I would recom- 

 mend that the matter be thoroughly 

 discussed at this meeting." 



Is the National fulfilling its purpose, 

 and is it any benefit to its members as 

 it is now organized and conducted? 

 This should have your serious, impartial 

 consideration, and a resolution setting 

 forth your conclusions be adopted as a 

 guide to the actions of the delegate you 

 may elect to attend the meeting of the 

 National next February in Denver, 

 Colorado, should you see fit to elect 

 one. 



There is another thing I would like 

 to have you take up: 



Article two of our Constitution says: 

 "The object of this Association shall be 

 to promote the general interests of the 

 pursuit of bee culture." 



Such being the case I would recom- 

 mend that your Executive Committee 

 be empowered to make arrangements 

 for hnldins from three to iv ft*^ d 

 meetings next summer, including the 

 tri-state field meet which has already 

 been arranged for at Hamilton, Illinois, 



some time late in next July or early 

 August, by the Iowa State Society, 

 Illinois and Missouri co-operating 

 therewith. These field meets I believe 

 should be in charge of your President 

 for 1915, for which services he will 

 receive no pay more than his expenses. 



These field meets should be held at 

 such time and place as will accommo- 

 date the most bee-keepers in that sec- 

 tion of the state, and not more than 

 two df these meetings should be held 

 in any one of the three Supreme Court 

 Judicial divisions of the state. 



And still another important matter 

 is the necessity for co-operation be- 

 tween the various Public Industrial, 

 Educational and Philanthropic Asso- 

 ciations of the state in matters of gen- 

 eral interest, and as a means to that 

 end I would recommend that this As- 

 sociation name a committee to work in 

 conjunction with committees of other 

 associations to work with that object 

 in view. 



Now these suggestions will be dis- 

 cussed, with others, tomorrow, and I 

 would like to have you be prepared to 

 take some action upon them. 

 , Mr. Moore — Perhaps it would be well 

 to make a little explanation in regard 

 to that tri-state meet talked of, to be 

 held at Hamilton, the last of July. I 

 happened to be down in the neighbor- 

 hood of the meeting held at Mt. Pleas- 

 ant, Iowa (the Iowa Bee-Keepers had 

 a series of rneetings during the summer 

 so I ran over to Mt. Pleasant) and Mr. 

 Pellett brought up the question of the 

 tri-state meet — the Bee-Keepers of 

 Illinois, Missouri and Iowa meeting at 

 some point, and Hamilton was sug- 

 gested. Mr. C. P. Dadant was there 

 and he said if the three State Associa- 

 tions decided to meet there they would 

 be very glad to welcome the Associa- 

 tions to the place and show them every 

 cour,tesy in their power. 



Mr. Pellett appointed Mr. J. W. Stone 

 as the Iowa man to look after the af- 

 fair. Mr. Baxter appointed myself and 

 they two appointed Mr. R. A. Holacamp 

 of St. Louis to work up the Missouri 

 end of it — so that this question will 

 be brought up at this meeting 

 for discussion, and get your ideas or 

 pointers as regards this tri-state meet; 

 the time, particularly, should be dis- 

 cussed. We thought some time the 

 later part of July or early August would 

 be as convenient as any time we can 



