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FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT @F, THE 



Pres. Kannenberg — You are a sugar 

 man, too, are you? 



Mr. Kubick — In order to get my bee.^ 

 in good shape I should have had an- 

 other ton. As far as the prospect 

 goes, it is pretty fair, but they don't 

 look as good as last year. The pros- 

 pects were much better last year than 

 they are this fall, but if we get rain, 

 as we ought to once in a while, ana 

 probably will some time, then we will 

 get a pretty good crop this coming 

 season. Sweet clover is very good. 



Dr. J. J. Brinckerhoff — 50 miles 

 southwest of here, Grundy County. No 

 surplus. 



Mr. John Dreuth — Indiana. 60 lbs. — 

 120 colonies. For another year, no 

 white clover, no sweet clover; our 

 prospects pretty much the same every 

 year according to the weather. 



Mr. Kenneth L. Hawkins — I have 

 nothing to report outside of total fail- 

 ure on account of foul brood. I have 

 fed quite a good deal of sugar myself, 

 and I think it might be the policy of 

 the Chicago -Northwestern Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association members to go into the 

 sugar business instead of the honey 

 business. 



Will County, Illinois. 



Mr. E. H. Bruner — Cook County. 

 About 20 lbs. of comb; about 40 lbs. of 

 extracted for those that were working 

 on sweet clover, and in some yards 

 practically nothing. Some prospects 

 for next year but nothing encouraging. 

 Sweet clover has made some start but 

 didn't do so well this summer as it 

 should; the plants are not so healthy 

 and strong as they ordinarily would be. 

 Perhaps they will improve. 



Mr. Fred Offner — Will County. 1,100 

 lbs., 98 colonies; prospects for next 

 summer pretty good; quite a little of 

 sweet clover around my place. It didn't 

 get so large as it should but there is 

 quite a little around my place. 



Mr. Kildow — Putnam County. I 

 would dislike to say what I got. I 

 got 200 of extracted honey, 2 lbs. of 

 comb honey; 107 colonies. We have no 

 prospects for next year. Our clover 

 has gone. We have a little sweet 

 clover and possibly some fall flowers; 

 that is all there is in our part of the 

 country. 



Pres. Kannenberg — We ought to elect 

 a committee to audit the books. For 

 the Committee on Resolutions I appoint 

 Mr. E. S. Miller, Mr. A. Coppin and 

 Mr. H. B. Blume. 



For the Auditing Committee I ap- 

 point Mr. John C. Bull, {^ Mr. John 

 Kneser and Mr A. Bodenschatz. 



We now have on our , program — 

 •'Shipping Bees North and 'South", by 

 Mr. H. C. Ahlers. 



Mr. Dadant — He has not returned 

 from dinner. 



Mr. Kannenberg — We will take up 

 the "Questions" now— 



Question — Shall we indulge in the 

 production of more bee-keepers? 



Mr. Kubick — For my part, Mr. Chair- 

 man, I would say, no. It is not from a 

 selfish standpoint either; it is from ex- 

 perience. I wish there were about a 

 dozen eliminated from where I am, 

 and I guess they will be this winter if 

 it is cold. 



Mr. Bruner — I think' possibly you 

 misunderstood the question — Shall we 

 indulge in bee-keepers; the question 

 was not, shall we indulge in more bee- 

 keepers. 



Mr. Bodenschatz — Mr. President, I 

 think it is a good thing to have bee- 

 keepers and more bee-keepers, be- 

 cause some of the older ones will fall 

 off after a time and some one will have 

 to take care of the others. The only 

 thing I believe in — if one bee-keeper 

 sells one colony to another party he 

 ought to teach him anyway to take 

 care of the bees; also, they should go 

 there and work with them so that 

 they will learn the difference between 

 a diseased and a healthy colony; and 

 if they get sick, then when there is 

 anything the matter with them they 

 will find out and go to him who sold 

 thepi and get information from him.^ 



Then the colonies will be kept 

 healthy, and the more -bee-keepers, in 

 a way, the more honey will be sold, be- 

 cause the new bee-keepers go to their 

 neighbors and let them know that they 

 have honey to sell, and they will get 

 better prices for it than some of the 

 older ones; and that is my idea, to 

 have more bee-keepers in that line. 



Mr. Miller — It seems to be the policy 

 of certain ones who are interested in 

 selling goods to encourage beginners 

 in the line of bee-keeping all over the 

 country; it does not. seem: to me to be 

 altogether a good policy, not only be- 

 cause of the spread of fotil brood but 

 because of the sale of honey. They 

 will sell honey at low pri®es and put 

 out honey for sale that is not of good 

 quality, and it interferes* with those 

 who make it a regular business. They 



