ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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of bees. They can begin with bees in 

 a small way, in connection with their 

 farming, and in the course of a few 

 years they may make enough off of 

 their bees to pay for their land. 



This should be brought to the atten- 

 tion of our young men and women 

 who are engaged in agricultural pur- 

 suitR. If they are not adapted to the 

 work they follow, they cannot expect 

 to succeed; but these things want to 

 be brought before them, and the more 

 you educate them along the lines of 

 bee-keeping, the better off you will be. 



Mr. Duby — Myself and son have been 

 riding since midnight, and we have 

 scarcely caught our breath, but before 

 this Question is passed on, I would like 

 to make a few remarks. 



Those of you who read the journals 

 have seen, no doubt, that last spring, 

 in eastern Illinois', we had two field 

 days. I believe the results attained 

 from such meetings are exceptionally 

 good. It may be true that it does not 

 reach very far; but we get people for 

 a few miles around interested. You 

 have, no doubt, seen the pictures of the 

 meetings that we had; this ought to 

 impress a few more along that line. 

 If we would make an effort to have field 

 days, and interest those in our respect- 

 ive neighborhoods, I think this would 

 be one of the best things to educate the 

 people. 



I agree with what the gentleman has 

 saic"; there are very few who under- 

 staiid the subject of bee-keeping; many 

 have bees because they have land, and 

 thoy take no interesit in bee-keeping 

 except for the amount of honey thev 

 produce; they are interested only in 

 the honey. If they were interested 

 along that line, the chances are they 

 would remain in the business a little 

 longer. 



I am very much interested in having 

 field days. I understand that in some 

 of the eastern states they are doing 

 this and meeting with remarkable suc- 

 cess. 



I don't see why Illinois can't take 

 such steps — and, more especially, the 

 State Association. 



M;-. Withrow — I think what Mr. 

 Moore said is all right. 



"We are catering to a class of men 

 who are already interested; if we get 

 articles published in farm papers, the 

 ordinary farmer will read these articles 

 — and I think we could educate many 



in that way much better than in maAy *v«5: 

 others. • •»• ~ i^-" 



I take probably eighteen or twenty 

 different farm papers, and there are 

 very few articles on bees in them; they 

 go to the farmers who probably keep 

 from one to ten colonies of bees — and 

 many of them are all the time fuSsing 

 about the bee inspector. 



I had a little experience, too. 



I went up to a man and wanted to 

 look at his bees. He wanted to know 

 what kind of "graft" that was; he '■ 



swore at me, and was not going to let 

 me look at his bees. ' 



I talked to him for a while, — ^I ex- 

 plained to him what I wanted to do, 

 and, after he understood it, he was all 

 right. I think if the officers of the As- • 



sociation would write an article on this 

 foul brood question and that of "manu- 

 factured" honey, and send it to the 

 farm papers, they would gladly pub- 

 lish it. 



Mr. Baxter — I find that one of the 

 most successful ways of getting the 

 pupblic interested is to go into the 

 schbols and talk to the children; they 

 report what they have heard to the 

 parents, and the parents get interested. 



I believe that has done probably 

 niore to get the matter before the pub- 

 lic in our section of the country than 

 anything else. 



Pres. Dadant — The question of bee- 

 keeping in the schools is being agitated 

 more than ever. Has any one of you 

 appeared before the School Boards? 



Mr. Coppin — The high school class of 

 our town — the professor •u'as in my 

 yarr" yesterdaj^ taking lessons on bees; 

 it was a pretty nice day yesterday. ■ 



Pres. Dadant — He was with a class, ,^ 

 was he? 



Mr. Coppin — Yes. 



Pres. Dadant — How many people did 

 he have? 



Mr. Coppin — About a dozen. 



Ml. Moore — Mr. President, I have apr 

 peared before the high school at home, 

 in the principapl's room, with probably 

 thirty or forty students — the senior' 

 class was taking a course in nature 

 studj-, and the lecture w^as more par- 

 ticularly for that class. I told the pro- 

 fessor to have the entire school come 

 and get the benefit of the lecture, both 

 the senior and junior classes, so that 

 the entire school heard the lecture. 



I had models and explained the 

 structure of the bee — their digestive 



