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FOURTEENTH ANNUAI^ REPORT OF THE 



of the Review? Is not the Review 

 worth the price we are paying for it? 

 I have taken that Review for a good 

 many years, when Mr. Hutchinson pub- 

 lished it; I have not missed a copy 

 since. If that Review is not worth 

 $1.00 to any bee-keeper who has two 

 or three hives or more, why, I don't 

 know what I want to say about it. 



Mr. Kneser — -I believe exactly as Mr.. 

 Bull and Mr. Miller have stated. 



I am willing to pay that $.50 and I 

 think if we bee-keepers would ask a 

 bigger price for honey we would be 

 willing to pay extra without so much 

 wrangling. I would like to see a lot 

 of bee-keepers help the National. 



Mr. Bull — I think the free advertis- 

 ing we get in the Review is worth the 

 price of the Review. 



Mr. Wheeler — What guarantee have 

 we that the Review will be published? 



Mr. Bull — All we have to do is to be 

 behind it and push it; if we knock it 

 we won't accomplish any good. 



Mr. Hawkins — I think it will stay; 

 as I understand it, if the Association 

 should fail to pay the balance of the 

 debt by a certain time the title to the 

 organ goes back to the original owner; 

 there is no doubt that he would con- 

 tinue to publish.it. 



Mr. Bull — In case the Review should 

 go into bankruptcy, who is holdeh for 

 it? Who has to pay the bill? 



I believe the gentleman said a little 

 while ago if the Review went under 

 that we would be called upon to pay 

 $1C.00 or $25.00 to take care of it. 



Mr. Kildow — I understand the Na- 

 tional is not incorporated and we 

 would not have to pay for it. 



Mr. Bull — As near as I can under- 

 stand it, from the Cincinnati meeting, 

 the people who bought that Review are 

 holden for it. They are making a 

 brave effort; I say, stand behind them; 

 they are doing their best. 



Mr. Wheeler — I would like to know 

 who holds the mortgage of the Re- 

 view. I believe Mr. France knows. 



Mr. France — I believe Mr. Tyrrell 

 holds the mortgage, signed by two 

 directors. The question comes up: 

 Are those two directors responsible? 

 Are they going to hold the member- 

 ship, that is the membership at this 

 time? The injustice of it is that they 

 signed that contract before the mem- 

 bers were notified. The members were 

 not asked whether they should pur- 

 chase or not purchase the Review. I 



am sorry for the conditions. I myself 

 anr» a subscriber to the Review and will 

 be as long as it is published, although 

 every issue runs the National more and 

 more in debt. It is ,an expense to our 

 Association every year. 



Mr. Hawkins — I had a talk with Mr. 

 Tyrrell in Detroit. I believe it was two 

 years ago next January, and unless I 

 am badly mistaken he told me he had 

 a contract between himself and two of 

 the directors that they were to buy the 

 Review for a certain amount within a 

 certain time. I believe there is another 

 year to run, and that, if the full 

 amount was not paid in that time, the 

 title would revert to Mr. Tyrrell, and, 

 as I understand it, the amount of 

 money that was paid him would be 

 lost to this Association. 



Mr. Miller — One point: This is the 

 age of organization. The canning peo- 

 ple are organized; we have organiza- 

 tions of all sorts. We cannot accom- 

 plish any thing without organization, 

 and that is why I believe in uphold- 

 ing the National. It is an organization 

 that will assist us in many points if 

 we put it on a proper footing. 



I deplore same of the things they 

 have done in the past, but we must 

 look to the future and not the past. 



Will it help us in the future if we 

 help it along? I believe it will. 



Mr. Hawkins — I would like to hear 

 from Mr. France if he knows why the 

 Wisconsin Association withdrew their 

 affiliation. 



Mr. France — As individuals we couid 

 not see wherein we would be benefited 

 for the amount of the payment. There 

 are over fifty in our state who are sub- 

 scribers to the Review but not mem- 

 bers of the National. They say that if 

 the Review is worth while it will pub- 

 lish itself, and that the subscription 

 price ought to pay it, and we paid our 

 $1.00 subscription gladly, but not as a 

 National member. 



Pres. Kannenberg — I will appoint 

 Brother Wheeler and Brother Bull as 

 tellers. 



Pres. Kannenberg — If the tellers are 

 ready to make a report, having counted 

 the ballots, we will hear the same. 



The result of the vote was: Yeas — 

 19; Nays— 15. 



Pres. Kannenberg — The motion to 

 join the National in a body is carried; 

 we will now be represented in the Na-" 

 tional; the election of a delegate will 

 be in order. 



