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TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



A Standard Oil salesman called on me, 

 and told me of a place in this State 

 where he had tried to buy some honey. 

 He picked out a cake of honey, and the 

 grocer said: "I don't believe you will 

 like that; that is manufactured stuff. 

 Here is some raised rig^ht here at home." 

 That salesman believed what the gro- 

 cer said. 



I told him there was no such thing 

 as manufactured comb honey. 



T^ie other day a man who lives in 

 Galesburg said that his wife had bought 

 a section of honey and they did not 

 like it; that it was some of this manu- 

 factured stuff. 



I told him there was no such thing 

 as manufactured comb honey, and ex- 

 plained to him what it was; that it 

 was probably dark honey — probably 

 last season's honey, and possibly of a 

 poor Quality. 



I think the bee-keepers can do lots 

 towards educating the public along the 

 line of what foul brood is, etc., by go- 

 ing to the local editors and getting 

 them to publish articles; • they 

 generally do it, without any charge. 

 You can get, from the different editors 

 of Bee Journals, articles on Bee dis- 

 eases and Honey production, that most 

 country newspapers would run as a 

 matter of news. 



There is great ignorance on the 

 part ,of the public in regard to the 

 Inspector's work. A number of peo- 

 ple this season, when I told them 

 my business, said that it w^as a big 

 expense for the State to carry, and 

 that it did no' particular good; that 

 it was a "graft." ■ 



They did not realize the amount of 

 money invested and the amount of 

 money made in bee-keeping in the 

 State of Illinois. They thought I was 

 getting big pay out of the State for . 

 doing no work; they did not know any- 

 thing about bee diseases and' how im- 

 portant it is to get rid of them. 



If the bee-keepers all over the State, 

 and members of this Association par- 

 ticularly, would get some articles of" 

 the right sort, and get the local papers 

 to publish them, it would be a big 

 help. 



Last spring. Dr. Phillips, of the De- 

 partment at Washington, sent out ar- 

 ticles to the newspapers to publish on 

 foul brood — and I found a number of 

 places in my district where the news- 

 papers had printed these articles; and 



.when I told them my buisness, the 

 people mentioned this article that the 

 Government had sent out; and they 

 understood my mission better. 



If the bee-keepers will work along 

 those lines, and educate themselves and 

 the public — I think it will be a big 

 advent in the line- of bee-keeping. 



Pres. Dadant — The subject is open 

 for discussion; we would like to hear 

 the opinions of experts. Mr. Coppin, 

 what have you for us? 



Mr. Coppin — I think Mr. Moore's idea, 

 of having the local papers publish ar- 

 ticles, is a very good one, but I think 

 the better way would be, when we are 

 inspecting bees, to get the people to 

 join our Association and read a regu- 

 lar Bee Journal of some description; 

 that would be my idea of educating 

 them. They would get more than by 

 reading a little article in a local paper. 



Mr. Moore^l'hat part is all right, 

 as far as the bee-keeper himself is 

 concerned; if he is at all progressive, 

 he wants to take the Bee Journals. I 

 •advise them to take one Bee Journal, 

 or more if they can. 



The general public are the people we 

 want to educate. By having these ar- 

 ticles published in the local papers, 

 they will be better posted. 



Mr. Baxter — I believe that Mr. 

 Moore's suggestions are" very good and 

 very well taken. This matter of edu- 

 cating the general public is very im- 

 portant, and I began up our way to 

 have our papers publish articles on the 

 value of bees to the fruit growers, also 

 the amount of wealth that they bring 

 into the state. 



The bees are not -only good for the 

 honey they produce, but of immense 

 value to the agriculturist and horti- 

 culturist generally, in the fertilization 

 of flowers; probably, they bring in more 

 revenue in the seed they produce, than 

 from the honey and wax, and people 

 are beginning to realize it. 



You cannot educate the public 

 through the bee-keepers'- journals, be- 

 cause only the bee-keepers take those 

 pape)-s. - 



Also as to this question of educating 

 our young men and women in the cul- 

 ture of bees at the State University; 

 that is a very important matter. 

 : What you want to bring out promi- 

 nently is that young men and wOmen 

 Who undertake farming — to start a 

 capital — use as a nucleus — the keeping 



