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tary, and I said right then at the meet- 

 ing: "The Secretary will put it the 

 week of th-e Odd Fellows", and it was 

 their fault if they allowed it to be put 

 that way Just as much as the Secre- 

 tary's; and if it is left with him this 

 year he will be in favor of that* again. 

 Our President came with the Odd Fel- 

 lows. Any one who came to the Bee- 

 Keepers' convention on Thursday could 

 find plenty of room; all the hotels were 

 cleaning out and we could get any 

 place we w-anted, and for our meeting 

 we do not want anything any earlier 

 than Thursday, I believe. 



Dr. Phillips — I might say that at 

 Ames, Iowa, we got together; a few 

 bee-keepers were there from other 

 places; Mr. C. P. Dadant was there 

 from this state, and Prof. Yaeger repre- 

 sented Minnesota, and Mr. Bartholo- 

 mew represented Iowa, and we talked 

 the thing over and decided it would be 

 well for some one present to get the 

 dates of all these meeting days to- 

 gether, so we asked Mr. Frank C. Pel- 

 lett of low^a to get suggestions and 

 consult the different Associations, and 

 plan the dates of meeting, submitting 

 them to the different Societies. 



I would suggest that you get into 

 communication w'ith Mr. Pellett early 

 so that he will have plenty of time to 

 correspond back and forth and get 

 the circuit complete. I think we can 

 have fxve or six men going around by 

 next year even. 



Mr. Stone — Would he put the day 

 about this time of the year? 



Dr. Phillips — He wants suggestions 

 on that score. The Iowa people are a 

 little bit in favor of a later date. Next 

 week is the Wisconsin meeting; a 

 week after that the Minnesota and 

 Michigan Bee-Keepers meet; a week 

 after that, in Missouri; a week after 

 that, in Kansas. 



Mr. Stone — I move, Mr. President, 

 that it be left with the Executive Com- 

 mittee to correspond with Mr. Pellett. 



Pres. Baxter — The motion is made 

 that the fixing of the date of the next 

 meeting be left with the Executive 

 Committee, and Mr. Kildow suggested 

 that it be not in Odd Fellows' week. 



I assure you if you leave it with 

 your Executive Committee they will 

 fix the date and not Mr. Pellett, but 

 they will do so in conjunction with Mr. 

 Pellett, so that it will be satisfactory 

 all round; so far as settling it for Odd 

 Fellows' week, I don't know about that; 



I was much in favor of it last year, 

 but this year I had difficulty in finding 

 a room; I finally^ found one and paid 

 $2.00 for a $.50 room, and afterwards I 

 found plenty of -rooms. 



All those in favor of the motion say 

 aye. 



Mr. Stone — If we fail to have it the 

 w-eek of the Odd Fellows, we w'ill find 

 the Hall in this position: if they go to 

 work and take out the chairs they will 

 not want to put them back. I would 

 suggest that if w^e can get our meeting 

 immediately following the Odd Fellows 

 we do so and we can then probably 

 have this room to hold it in. 



Mr. Bowen — I would rather that you 

 have it much later; for the last three 

 years I have not been able to attend at 

 this time of the year. 



Pres. Baxter — All in favor of the 

 motion say aye. Contrary, no. Carried. 



Mr. Stone — I want to impress on the 

 meeting that at 11:45, fifteen minutes 

 before 12, we are to go to the north 

 front of the State House and have our 

 group picture taken. 



Pres. Baxter — "^'e have a report we 

 want to hear of our delegate to the 

 National Convention last February, 

 Mr. Moore. 



Mr. Moore — Mr. Chairman: I have 

 no'c a very extensive report to make 

 because the rnain business of the Con- 

 vention was taken up formulating 

 plans for the re-organization and in- 

 corporation of the National, and in 

 formulating a new Constitution and 

 By-Laws; we worked at that almost 

 the entire time of the Convention. In 

 fact there was not a night w-e were 

 there that we got through before 12 

 or one o'clock. 



There was considerable dissatisfac- 

 tion manifested in the early part of 

 the Convention among the delegates 

 and members in regard to the buying 

 of the Review. They were dissatis- 

 fied with the deal that the Directors 

 made with Mr. Tyrrell in getting the 

 Bee-Keepers' Reviews finally a sub- 

 committee was appointed, of which I 

 was Chairman, to discuss the matter 

 fully and make recommencJ&tion to the 

 association in regard to it. We 

 thrashed the matter out one night until 

 after midnight and the next day I 

 made a report, as follows: 



"We, your Committee on Publicity, 

 recommend that this Convention take 

 action authorizing the Directors to dispose 

 of the Review to the best advantage to the 

 Association." 



