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TWELFTH ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE 



Pres. Dadant — I want to emphasize 

 one thing': 



The President of the State Associa- 

 tion of Missouri, Mr. Rouse, wrote to 

 the Bee Journal (we insert all com- 

 munications we think of importance to 

 Bee-Keepers), complaining that bee- 

 keepers were not being accepted in the 

 National as thy should; that the money 

 was being returned. Mr. Rouse haa 

 the wrong understanding. The mem- 

 bers that joined the National from the 

 district around Missouri had paid their 

 one dollar and a half to the National 

 and fifty cents of that had been re- 

 turned to the Missouri Association as 

 membership to secondary association, 

 by the National. The National was 

 recognizing the Missouri Association as 

 the nucleus formed by states in thai 

 direction and sending to them its share 

 of those subscriptions. 



Mr. Stone has said to you that Mr. 

 Tyrrell has returned to him more half 

 dollars than the amount of dollars he 

 has subscribed for. 



More people have sent one dollar and 

 a half direct to the National, and fifty 

 cents has been returned to this associa- 

 tion, than have dollars been sent by 

 Mr. Stone to the National. 



One thing that wasi muddled in my 

 mind was how we could keep a man 

 at one dollar and one at one dollar and 

 a half, and have them both members 

 of the National. 



If this thing goes through, the man 

 who pays one dollar is still a member 

 of the State Association, and becomes 

 a member of the National, but he gets 

 none of the information the National 

 will impart. 



Undoubtedly we have the right to re- 

 tain our members at one dollar; and 

 the action you took yesterday in ac- 

 cepting members at one dollar, of 

 which nothing goes out of the state, 

 is all right, and you can continue so 

 to do; according to our decision yester- 

 day, and the acknowledgment of Mr. 

 Tyrrell. 



I believe we can compare our State 

 Association and the National, to the 

 State Legislature and the National 

 Congress. The only difference, the 

 State Legislature of Illinois recognizes 

 no authority above itself to make laws, 

 but, however, the Supreme Court may 

 break their laws. 



"We must recognize the State Legis- 

 lature above us because the State 

 Legislature supplies us with certain 

 sums every year, and, therefore, we 



must keep independent of every thing 

 else — and as far as being a State As- 

 sociation and retain our support by the 

 State Legislature, we must be supreme 

 as a State Association, but we can 

 send, to the National, delegates as 

 delegates are sent to the National Con- 

 gress. 



Mr. Tyrrell — You have thirty-five 

 thousand bee-keepers in Illinois, and 

 only less than three hundred are mem- 

 bers of this association. 



You take the Review, and go before 

 your prospective .members, and say to 

 them — "For one dollar and a half you 

 get a membership in the local or State 

 Association and in the National As- 

 sociation and get the Bee-Keepers' 

 Review — or you pay one dollar and you 

 get membership in the State Associa- 

 tion without the Review." You will 

 get a great many more members with 

 that proposition than you ever did be- 

 fore when 5'ou had to hunt for a reason 

 to give them for joining the association. 



The Review is bound to be working 

 for subscribers, and it has to, irre- 

 spective of the efforts of your State 

 Association, and every subscriber it 

 gets will be solicited for not only a sub- 

 scription for the Review, but for mem- 

 bership; it is bound to mean a greatly 

 increased membership for the State 

 Associations. 



Mr. Baxter — Your point is well taken. 



But there is something in addition. 

 While this society must be supreme in 

 itself, the state will not appropriate 

 money for outside expenses. 



The State Horticultural Society re- 

 ceives five thousand dollars and they 

 have been using some money to pay 

 delegates as we propose, and two years 

 ago when I appeared before the Com- 

 mittee on Appropriation, they threat- 

 ened to cut out the appropriation; and 

 told us if it occurred again they would 

 cut it out. I don't see how you are 

 going to get money to send delegates 

 to the National. "" 



Mr. Tyrrell — Can it be paid out of 

 your local fund? 



Mr. Baxter — Not large enough. 



Mr. Tyrrell — In every State there 

 will certainly be one bee-keeper who 

 will want to attend the Convention, 

 wihether he is a delegate or not. If 

 that man went, heretofore, he paid his 

 own expenses. Why not elect that man 

 as delegate and let him do the same 

 as he did before? 



I hope the National Association will 



