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in return give each member one copy 

 of our meeting, furnish our stenogra- 

 pher; in fact, we cannot afford not to 

 join the State Association. They pay 

 our postage and other incidental bills. 

 The National gets $1.00, that is for 

 fnembership In the National and a sub- 

 scription for one year to the Bee- 

 Keepers' Review, and that makes $1.50, 

 and we get what is left. 



Mr. Coppin — I think the National 

 gets $2.00; now that. is the way I un- 

 derstand it. 



Mr. Dadant — No, sir. 



Mr. Coppin — What am I paying for? 

 I want to join the National, the North- 

 western and the Illinois State. 



Mr. Dadant — Fifty cents, and if you 

 join the National besides it will cost 

 you $1.50. 



Mr. Coppin — I understand it differ- 

 ently, if you join the State it was $1.00. 



Pres. Kannenberg — It will cost you 

 $1.00 if you join the State by yourself, 

 but, through us, fifty cents. 



Mr. Dadant — When you pay fifty 

 cents you are supposed to be a mem- 

 ber of the National. We get $1.50 for 

 our dues — $1.00 goes to the National 

 and fifty cents to the State. The 

 Northwestern has never had anything. 

 We pay out everything we get. 



Mr. Kildow — It seems a kind of fool- 

 hardy business to me the way the 

 thing is run now. We are to pay $1.00 

 ta the National; we pay fifty cents to 

 join the State Association; we come 

 here and pay fifty cents to belong to 

 the Northwestern; our book we print 

 costs us over $1.00 to print. You peo- 

 ple pay your fifty cents here; we get 

 that book for fifty cents. We go down 

 to our State Association and give $1.00 

 to get the same thing you are getting. 



It looks to me kind of queer; we 

 have to pay $1.00 down there and only 

 fifty cents here. 



Mr. Dadant — It is a poor rule that 

 won't work both ways. He joined the 

 State and National for $1.50 down 

 there; he pays fifty cents for joining 

 the National, so, by joining the Na- 

 tional for fifty cents, it works the other 

 way here. 



I could not take one membership and 

 send it to the State for $.50 but I can 

 send it at $.50 for a bunch of us. 



It is not simply one man to join the 

 State — it Is the Association a? a body 

 joining the State and getting $.50 rate. 



You practically get the same thing; 

 joining the National and the State you 



have to pay $1.00, and get $.50 for the 

 National. 



Mr. Bull — How does it come that you 

 have to pay $1.00 to join the Illinois 

 State while you can get it for $.50 if 

 you are a member of the National? 



Mr. Baldridge — I suppose the legisla- 

 ture provided for the publication of the 

 report. Does not the State make an 

 appropriation of $500 a year? 



Mr. Coppin — Con you join the Na- 

 tional Association as a body by paying 

 $.50 for membership fee for the North- 

 western and the Illinois State? 



Mr. Miller — I move that this Asso- 

 ciation join the National. 



Motion seconded. 



Mr. France — What do you get for 

 joining the National? 



Mr. Kildow — I get nothing. 



Mr. France — In Wisconsin we voted 

 three years ago not to affiliate. That 

 we would continue to pay $.50 a year 

 State dues, and, if we joined the Na- 

 tional, that is independent; it is simply 

 subscribing for the Review. 



Mr. Hawkins — I would like to see 

 the Chicago -Northwestern Association 

 stay out of the National; not as a mat- 

 ter of personal enmity at all; I do not 

 think we get two cents worth of good 

 out of it, and there are a great many 

 members in the Chicago-Northwestern 

 who do not care to be members of the 

 National. 



And, as this man suggested a while 

 ago, before very long we are going to 

 be called upon to pay the amount that 

 is due yet on . the Review. It is 

 time that some of these energetic 

 members dig down in their pockets and 

 pay $5 or $10. I would like to see the 

 dues of the Chicago-Northwestedn 

 raised to $1.00, $.50 to go to Mr. Stone, 

 and $.50 to take care of our business. 



Mr. Miller — I do not believe it pays 

 us to be knockers or anything of that 

 sort. These people who are running 

 the National may not do it as we think 

 the best way, but if the National is 

 going to be of any value to us we must 

 get to the front and help them do 

 something. If they have not done any- 

 thing in the past, we cannot afford to 

 drop it now; we must be boosters and 

 not knockers. 



I am willing to pay that $10 or $15 

 or $25 if it is going to be worth while; 

 if it is going to be worth that to me 

 I am willing to pay it. We have to 

 help those things along if we expect to 

 get results. The reason it is not get- 



