ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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was sent me, from away up in the 

 upper peninsula from a man who 

 wanted to buy honey, and he was will- 

 ing to pay nine cents f. o. b. the pro- 

 ducing- station for the honey he 

 wanted. 



I wrote to both of these men, and 

 they got together; samples were sent, 

 and the man in the Northern peninsula, 

 not knowing the producer, sent the 

 cheque for the honey to me to be held 

 until the honey was sent to him by 

 the producer; and this made a safe 

 method, providing I was honest in the 

 transaction. 



A man in Kansas City writes me that 

 he wants sweet clover honey from the 

 West; I could not furnish it. 



Another man in Massachussetts wants 

 honey from even as far West as Cali- 

 fornia. 



One shipment of honey was sent 

 from the State of Illinois, to a re- 

 sponsible buyer in the City of Detroit. 

 That man wrote me that he had such 

 and such honey; I gave him the name 

 of a buyer and told him this man was 

 entirely responsible. He said he had 

 No. 1 fancy grade. That honey was 

 shipped to the buyer in Detroit, and 

 he refused it. I am sorry to say the 

 man was off on his grading. He had 

 used sections that had probably been 

 used before. It is clear they were not 

 properly cleaned; and the honey was 

 all bulged out on the sides; he had 

 used old shipping cases, so ,fhat the 

 buyer, for the trade he wanted to 

 supply, could not use the honey. 



I say there is need in the National 

 Association of trying to help the pro- 

 ducer, in advising him how to grade 

 his honey, and what the markets de- 

 mand. So far I have been well pleased 

 with the result of the little effort Ave 

 have made in this direction and what 

 we have been able to do. 



T wish I could tell you what can be 

 done along that line. 



Pres. Dadant — At a meeting at Los 

 Angeles, California, a number of years 

 ago, an attempt was made to organize 

 the bee-keepers for the sale of honey. 

 California people have shown what can 



be done, and have given a good ex- 

 ample in the Citrus Fruit Assciation. 



Oranges' in California were a drug 

 on the market until they advertised 

 to sell them all over the World and 

 the Fruit Association took a hand in 

 the situation. 



Bee-keepers who produce large crops 

 thought t:ie National could do th» 

 same thing that the citrus fruit peo- 

 ple were doing with their fruits; but 

 the trouble is our Eastern states were 

 not ready for it. I believe that is the 

 future of the National — to sell honey. 

 We could not do any good because the 

 Eastern States were not organized. 



We were only a committee of three, 

 and one man of the three got angry 

 when we could do nothing. He had 

 all around him people with tons and 

 tons of honey ready to put on the 

 market, and we had in the East bee- 

 keepers j producing irregular crops, and 

 selling- i it more readily, and unwilling 

 to put any money into a co-operative 

 association. 



I believe the future of the National 

 is more especially in the disposing 

 of the bee-keepers' honey. 



Mr. Tyrrell — The little effort I have 

 made thisf year shows the possibilities 

 for the future of the National greater 

 than I have ever seen it before, and I 

 hope that next year we will have an 

 advertisement in the trade publications, 

 which will go before the wholesale 

 drug houses and commission houses 

 and grocery stores, and men who are 

 the real wholesale buyers of honey; 

 then in having a list of the producers, 

 and what they have, I cannot see why 

 we cannot get the producer and the 

 buyer together and sell to a very great 

 extent. 



Pres. Dadant — Any other remarks, 

 resolutions or suggestions? 



Mr. Stone — I want to announce that 

 we have with us our junior member — - 

 this boy seven years old is a imember 

 of our Association — Wilbur Witherow. 



At 12:30 p. m., the Convention ad- 

 journed to meet at the call of the 

 Executive Committee. Decided to be 

 November 5, 6, 1913. 



