ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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heard the Secretary's report. What is 

 your pleasure? Are there any correc- 

 tions to the report as read? If not it 

 will stand approved. 



Pres. Huffman — Now what is the 

 next thing in order? 



Mr. Dadant — The President's ad- 

 dress. 



Pres. Huffman — President York is 

 not present, so that the next thing in 

 order is the program. 



It appears there has not been any 

 of the papers handed to the Secretary. 

 Is there any report from any of the 

 committees, or are any committees out 

 from last year? The Secretary might 

 run over his minutes and find out. 



Mr. Dadant — I don't remember of any 

 committees being out. 



Pres. Huffman — The next thing in 

 order will be the appointment of some 

 one as tellers for the Question Box. We 

 will start that rolling and see if we 

 can get something in here for discus- 

 sion. I -will appoint Mr. Pyles and 

 the gentleman sitting beside him, Mr. 

 Stockdale. 



Mr. John C. Bull is here, we would 

 like to ask if he is ready to read his 

 paper or give us a talk. 



Mr. Dadant — In asking for papers, I 

 asked Mr. Bull to send in a paper or 

 give us a tik. Mr. Bull is a good 

 talker, and we would like to have him 

 talk to us. 



Pres. Huffman — The subject of his 

 paper is — 



WHICH IS PREFERABLE AND 

 IWHY? BEE-KEEPING AS A BUSI- 

 NESS OR HONEY SELLING AS A 

 BUSINEJSe ? 



Mr. Bull — That is a pretty hard 

 question to answer; now the two work 

 together to the best advantage, for the 

 simple reason you cannot keep bees 

 in winter and you can't sell honey in 

 the summer time. 



You might divide the year in half; 

 take six months for bee-keeping and 

 six months for selling; it works much 

 better; October to April for selling hon- 

 ey, and from April to October for keep- 

 ing bees; that would work to the best 

 advantage. 



Mr. Dadant — What I wanted to bring 

 out there is this, whether there is more 

 money in raising your honey or more 

 money in selling it. 



Mr, Bull — That depends on the lo- 

 cality and the year; one year works 

 best one way and one another; when 

 you have a big crop of honey and 



fruit, it is best to produce honey; when 

 you have a small crop of honey and a 

 small crop of fruit it is best to sell 

 honey. 



One year might be as good for sell- 

 ing honey as the next one, and the 

 same way as to keeping bees. 



Mr. Dadant — How much difference 

 in selling honey? 



Mr. Bull — I have not had enough 

 j'ears' experience to tell; I guess it is 

 a toss-up. 



Pres. Huffman — I suppose, too, in 

 regard to the selling of honey, that 

 depends on the buying; if you can buy 

 it cheap enough you can do fairly well 

 in selling it; but as a rule all bee- 

 keepers have not hdney to sell and they 

 don't like to sell it cheap, and that 

 does not give the man who buys honey 

 to retail it a good chance for specula- 

 tion. 



Mr. Dadant — Mr. Bull has had con- 

 siderable experience' and is a pretty 

 good seller. I brought this question 

 up so that he might gise us light, es- 

 pecially to the new- members, knowing 

 that he gets as good prices and sells as 

 much honey as almost any member we 

 have. 



Pres. Huffman — It would be well, if 

 he would care to give it, to give us his 

 plan of selling; and that will give us 

 a start in knowing how to do it; w'e 

 might learn something through hearing 

 of his way of selling; possibly it may 

 be the same as he gave us last year, 

 and we have read the last year's re- 

 port; but there are some here who 

 have not heard it, and it would be new 

 to them, and it would be new to me be- 

 cause I did not retain the information 

 that I heard him give last year. 



Mr. Bull — I work under the same 

 plan followed last year; I sell five and 

 ten pound friction top cans direct to 

 the consumer; I take orders at the 

 houses and deliver them two weeks 

 later; I carry a sample of honey with 

 me when I take the order, and give 

 a sample to the buyer or the prospect- 

 ive buyer, 



Pres. Huffman — Do you as a rule sell 

 it melted or granulated? 



Mr. Bull— Melted; all of it. 



Pres. Huffman — I would like to ask 

 — JIsow many could sell more honey 

 than they produce? You who could sell 

 more honey than you produce — hold up 

 your right hand and let us see. 



Pres. Huffman — There are five. 



Pres. Huffman — How many do not 



