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TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



to get an appropriation to publish this 

 report. 



Mr. Duby — How many members has 

 this association? 



Mr. Stone — Last year we reported 

 over three hundred; this year there 

 were ninety short. 



Mr. Duby — Those ninety moved to 

 Missouri! 



Mr. Tyrrell — I have not read Mr. ■ 

 Stone's report, as to why those ninety 

 m_embers are shy this year, but it is 

 not at all surprising, considering the 

 past season and the conditions. 



Talk with any bee supply man; he 

 is glad he has gotten through without 

 running behind this year; this applies 

 to the manufacturers, too. This con- 

 dition prevails throughout the coun- 

 try. 



So this one reason in itself, if there 

 were none other, would be sufficient 

 for a decrease in membership. 



Mr. Duby — I think if every member 

 w^ould work a little we would have five 

 hundred members by next fall. 



Mr. Roberts — In extracting honey in 

 big tanks, the fine wax that goes 

 through will float at the top. I believe 

 when honey is extracted, not ripe, that 

 the poison that escapes from the bees 

 in shaking them goes to that honey 

 and helps it to ferment. 



There was a saloon keeper in Wis- 

 consin who bought two gallons of 

 honey from me; and he was batching 

 it; he said "I will put one gallon up- 

 stairs and the other I will keep here 

 and eat it." He had bread and butter 

 and ate his honey right out of the jar. 

 and in two or three weeks that jar of 

 honey was as sour as could be; as sour 

 as anything you ever saw. The other 

 jar which he kept upstairs was all 

 right. 



I found the reason for it — in the jar 

 he had been using, I found a lot of 

 bread crumbs which had fermented it. 



In regard to the Eastern Association 

 — I believe that the State Association 

 ought to be the leading association — 

 and that all others should be subordi- 

 nate to this' one. 



A great many bee-keepers want to 

 be members of this, but not of the Na- 

 tional. They have said to me, "I will 

 give you one dollar to be a member 

 of the State Association"; and I got 

 notice that they could not do this. I 

 believe that there should be a way 

 to bring them in as members of this 

 association; what would be the rate to 



have them members of this association 

 only and not of the National? 



Mr. Stone — When this convention is 

 over, and at the proper time, we will 

 send out another notice, and it will be 

 entirely different from what it has ever 

 been before. It will embody the union 

 with the National, and the benefits 

 they will get by joining both, and on 

 that basis membership w-ill- be asked 

 for. The benefits that are offered to a 

 man coming into both associations will 

 be named. 



Mr. Duby — This State Association 

 and the National will be but one. 



Mr. Stone — Every association in the 

 United States is a branch of the Na- 

 tional. If the association does not 

 want to join the National, it does not 

 have to, but I believe when we hear 

 from Mr. Tyrrell tomorrow, w'e will 

 all want to join. 



I was opposed to the whole thing, 

 you know, a year ago, but I have 

 corresponded with Mr. Tyrrell, and I 

 have an inkling into what they are 

 going to do; I am now on the other 

 side, and I believe you will all be to- 

 morrow. 



Mr. Tyrrell — Without going into that 

 discussion tonight: I will say that in 

 making any change, such as has been 

 made, there are always some wheels 

 that grind and don't run smoothly; it 

 takes a little time to get them running 

 smoothly and nicely, and I appreciate 

 all these obstacles that present them- 

 selves to you, but I believe when you 

 get through with it and you under- 

 stand what is trying to be done, and 

 what you can do, you will not present 

 opposition any more, and that you will 

 see and believe, the same as I do, that 

 it is the best move that can be made 

 for the bee-keepers of this country. 



I am going to outline a plan to you 

 tomorrow that will not conflict with 

 j-cur work. 



Always remember this: ^ That the 

 officers of the National Association are 

 your servants, and that each local as- 

 sociation or State Association has as 

 much to say as to what is being done 

 as any other b,ody of bee-keepers in 

 the United States. 



We should all act in unison and har- 

 mony in our plans. 



It is like the old man and woman 

 that stood one on each side of the 

 fence with a rope between them; a 

 traveling man came along and he said 

 t'o them, "What are you trying to do?" 



