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TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



can get as an individual publisher) 

 that income will go a long ways, if it 

 will not entirely, in covering the cost 

 of actually printing the paper. 



Mr. Stone — I want to say, for the 

 benefit of our Association, I have re- 

 ceived more fifty cent fees from brother 

 ■Tyrrell than I have sent him one dol- 

 lar fees. 



He has sent us more members to our 

 association than I have sent names tci 

 him. I have a letter in my pocker, 

 which he gave me, for two member- 

 ships, and he has sent me a dozen, and 

 I guess I sent him four or five dollar;?. 



Mr. Tyrrell — I am glad to hear thai. 



Pres. Dadant — There is a question 

 that has not been solved: 



You say that every member of the 

 State Association virtually becomes a 

 member of the National — 



What about those members who are 

 paying us only one dollar, and for 

 whom we are paying nothing? 



Mr. Tyrrell — Those members are 

 still considered members of the Na- 

 tional, and we will try to do what we 

 can for them. 



They cannot expect as much benefit 

 as though they were also Review sub- 

 scribers. 



A large number oT prices and other 

 information published in the Review — 

 they would miss. We will publish re- 

 ports and prices, et cetera, and we 

 would not want to send these to a man 

 who is not willing to subscribe for the 

 paper. 



Mr. Kildow — For one dollar and c. 

 half a man gets a reserve seat. 



Pres. Dadant — The man who sends 

 one dollar is a member of the National 

 only, and does not get the Review? 



Mr. Tyrrell — Yes. One more Question 

 — that is, the matter of legal help Lo 

 members. 



Why does the National turn down 

 legal help to its members? 



I contend they do not. They can do 

 as much toward helping a member leg- 

 ally at the present time as they could 

 before. 



As an illustration of that I will say, 



that one member in ^wrote 



me a letter stating that his village or 

 city was contemplating the passage of 

 an ordinance prohibiting the keeping oi 

 bees within a certain distance of the 

 road or street; if the streets were anj'- 

 thing like lOur Eastern streets, you 

 would practically be debarred from 

 keeping bees in this village if this ordi- 

 nance was passed. 



I wrote the council, through the City 

 Clerk, telling him in my option that 

 ordinance was not legal and was un- 

 constitutional, and I quoted authority 

 that I had available to substantiate my 

 claim. 



In time I received a reply from the 

 city attorney saying I had been mis- 

 informed; it was not an ordinance to 

 keep bees out of the city but to prevent 

 the keeping of bees within such and 

 such distances of the street. 



I wrote to him, that even should this 

 be true, I would consider the ordinance 

 unconstitutional. While it might not 

 prohibit the keeping of bees within the 

 city, such an ordinance as they pro- 

 posed to pass would bring the same re- 

 sult. 



They had a meeting, and the thing 

 was all thrown out. 

 nance, and I have written the party 



Now they are considering a new ordi- 

 interested and told him I would talo 

 it up for him if he wished me to do 

 so. 



Another man in the Eastern part dC 

 the United States wrote me and said 

 he had bees located near the canal and 

 that canal boats went along, and the 

 people on the boats complained. 



I wrote to that man and advised him, 

 from all I could understand of the situ- 

 ation, to raise some sort of a barrier 

 between the bees and the canal, by 

 high brush, a high fence or something 

 that would make the bees rise above 

 the canal before passing over it; and 

 I have not heard from him since then. 

 I don't know what he did. 



Another bee-keeper in Missouri 

 wrote me he had bought two city lots, 

 and he had placed on those city lots 

 one hundred swarms of bees, and now 

 the neighbors were bringing suit. 



I wrote to him and his attornej', 

 two or three letters, and gave him the 

 legal facts as best I could, and then 

 I advised him if he was trying to keep 

 the bees in the city, if it was at all 

 possible to get them out. I question 

 whether he had good legal grounds 

 to stand on. 



I say that the National, so far as I 

 can see, can do as much for its mem- 

 bers legally as they ever could. 



Oftentimes a lot of fellows ask for 

 help w^hen they have no ground for 

 asking help; fellows get into trouble 

 and then join the National to help them 

 out. 



Just here, let me tell you the situa- 



