ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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To get back to the cost for distri- 

 bution of honey and to compare it with 

 the selling- price, if we produce honey 

 at 8% cents per pound and sell it 

 through wholesalers at 9 cents per 

 pound, we make nothing. If we put 

 it into. the hands of the consumer at 

 12y2 cents per pound we will probably 

 lose money because of the extra ex- 

 pense necessary to put it on the mar- 

 ket. If we ask 25 cents per pound and 

 go to the expense of educating con- 

 sumers to the desirability of the use 

 of honey there is a possibility that . 

 we may make enough out of it to pay 

 for our trouble and time in marketing 

 the crop. But there is not anything 

 big in it at that. 



It is often said that in business one 

 ought to be able to make $5.00 per day 

 profit off of each man employed in 

 production or in selling or distribution. 

 Will bee-keeping as a business 

 measure up to that standard? I don't 

 know. 



Pres. Kannenberg — Has any one else 

 anything to say along this line? 



Mr. Bull — I must say that those 

 figures are pretty close to where they 

 belong. It costs money to sell goods 

 as well as it does IjO produce them. 

 What does the farmer get of the con- 

 sumer's $1.00? 

 A member — $.35. 



Mr. Bull — I say how much does the 

 farmer get of farm products of the 

 consumer's $1.00; taking farm products 

 for instance, I think it is figured out 

 he gets $.43; quite a bit less than half. 

 Why should not the person that dis- 

 tributes honey get something like that 

 proportion. Farm products are con- 

 sidered a necessity; honey is con- 

 sidered a luxury; therefore it is worth 

 more to put it on the market. 



The same way with a Binder or a 

 Sewing Machine, it costs more to sell 

 it than to make it; the same way with 

 an automobile; it costs more money to 

 sell it than to manufacture it. 



If we are going to say honey is 

 worth 8 or' 10 or 12 cents a pound = 

 wholesale and retail it for $.12^4 where 

 do we land? 



Mr. Burnett — I presume the time for 

 adjournment is growing near, but be- 

 fore we adjourn I think it would be 

 fitting if we should call attention to the 

 program, which has practically been 

 finished by this last paper of Mr. 

 Bruner's. 



When I read this paper I thought 



that the Secretary had called largely 

 on faith in preparing it but while he 

 has assumed perhaps in the case of 

 Mr. Hofman and others that they 

 would be here because he so much de- 

 sired it — those who have been here 

 have acquitted themselves in an ex- 

 emplary manner, and I think this is 

 one of the profitable occasions upon 

 which bee-keepers and their associates 

 have convened. 



Now, therefore, I move you, sir, that 

 a vote of thanks be tendered our 

 Secretary, largely underpaid in his 

 years of service and other respects — 

 for the service, the pains and great 

 labor that he has expended in pre- 

 paring this occasion for us. 



Motion seconded* and carried by a 

 rising vote. 



Mr. Dadant — I appreciate your vote 

 of thanks; I have done the best I could. 

 I am sorry that Mr. Pellett and Mr. 

 Hofman and Mr. Baxter could not be 

 here; I could not depend on them. I 

 got a reply from but one or 

 two as. to whether they would be here 

 or not; I am glad it has turned out so 

 well. 



Pres. Kannenberg — We have a few 

 more questions here. 



Mr. Wheeler — I think it is in order 

 as long as our President is going out 

 of office to have a rising vote of thanks 

 for the work he has done. I make a 

 motion that a rising vote of thanks be 

 given for what he has done. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



Pres. Kannenberg — Thank you, broth- 

 ers, for the honor, and really in fact I 

 have not done very much but I did as 

 good as I could. 



Pres. Kannenberg — We will have a 

 few more questions. 



Mr. Burnett — Have the officers been 

 elected for the ensuing year? 



Mr. Dadant — Yes — Mr. N. E. France, 

 President; Mr. E. H. Bruner, Secretary- 

 Treasurer. 



Question — What is the best way to 

 liquefy honey ? 



A miember — Eat it. 



Mr. Dadant — I thinR Mr. Miller can 

 give us something that he and Mr. 

 Bull and several others have tried. 



Mr. Miller — Whatever I have to say 

 will have to be brief; my train goes in 

 a few minutes. 



I have constructed an oven to liquefy 

 honey by means of dry heat, using gas 

 where we can get it. The oven holds 



