ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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A motion prevailed to have a picture 

 taken of tlie members present at 10 a. m. 

 tomorrow. 



Motion to meet at 8:30 a. m. tomorrow. 

 Morning Session — 8:30 a. m. 



Meeting called to order by President 

 Dadant in the Chair. 



It was decided to elect officers at 9:30 

 a. m. 



The decision of the morning meeting 

 was to hold our Annual meeting the last 

 of October. 



Motion was made that the Secretary's 

 salary be made $100.00; and the Treas- 

 urer's salary, $25.00. 



Motion carried. 



I»roceeded to the election of officers 

 with the following result: 



President, C. P. Dadant. 

 l.st Vice-President, EL J. Baxter. 

 2d Vice-President, I. B. Pyles. 

 3d Vice-President. W. B. Moore. 

 4th Vice-President, Louis Werner. 

 5th Vice-President, Aaron Coppin. 

 .Tames A. Stone was re-elected Secre- 

 tary and Chairman Becker, Treasurer. 



Pres. Dadant — Y'ou have heard the 

 minutes, what shall we do with them? 



Mr. Baxter — I move that the minutes 

 stand as read. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



Pres. I>adant — It has been the cus- 

 tom to appoint a Resolution Committee, 

 an Auditing Committee and a Legis- 

 lative Committee; the Legislative Com- 

 mittee has been the Executive Com- 

 mittee, consisting of the President, 

 Secretary and Treasurer. Now what 

 is your wish in regard to the matter? 



Mr. Baxter — I move that the Presi- 

 dent appoint all the Committees neces- 

 sary. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



Pres. Dadant — ^I will announce the 

 Committees later. 



Under the regular order of business, 

 the next thing in order is the Presi- 

 dent's address. I have never been in 

 favor of addresses unless you have 

 something of importance to report, 

 which I have not this year. 



You all know of the difficulties of last 

 winter and last spring for the bee-keep- 

 ers of the country. I believe apiculture 

 last April and May was at its lowest 

 ebb — the low^est it has been for years, 

 but now the general condition is very 

 favorable and very encouraging, and we 

 feel elated. 



We have a number of essays which 

 will be discussed, we are to hear from 

 our Inspector, and to have reports from 

 the Secretary and Treasurer. I think 



this will keep us busy so I will not tire 

 you with a long address. 



We will now have the Secretary's 

 report. 



Secretary's Report for 1912. 



Although our membership has fallen 

 ninety (90) below that of last year, 

 we still have a good number on our 

 roll, viz. : 229. 



Members of the State Association, 

 direct — 162. 



Those coming through the Chicago - 

 Northwestern, 53. and through the 

 Northern Illinois and Southern Wis- 

 consin, 14. 



We could not reasonably expect an 

 increase after such a bad year as 19H 

 was, and such a destructive winter fol- 

 lowing it. 



Another cause for a decrease in our 

 membership, we are quite sure, was on 

 account of the National changing its 

 constitution, making an additional fee 

 of fifty cents. 



We were disposed to disfavor it for 

 the reason that we could not see ahead 

 as did those who promoted it. 



Now we are able to look forward to 

 the great results to be obtained by 

 membership in the National through 

 which we can be as members of one 

 great family. 



We are now of the opinion that the 

 future for the National is brighter than 

 ever before, and that means a prosper- 

 ous condition for all the associations 

 that may choose to be branches of the 

 National. 



We expect the worthy Secretary of 

 the National to be with us in our meet- 

 ing and when we have heard from him, 

 we will see the future in a different 

 light from what we looked at it last 

 year. 



We had three hundred copies of our 

 1911 report bound in cloth, and one 

 hundred in paper covers. By the time 

 our members were all supplied with the 

 cloth bound copies, and the calls ans- 

 wered from libraries in this and other 

 states, they were about exhausted. 



In our membership this year we 

 observe there are twenty-three new- 

 members. We think these came as the 

 result of sending out over a thousand inj- 

 vitations for membership. About seven 

 hundred of these went to the subscrib- 



