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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE 



verified them, and I know these M^rtj^ 

 utes that are printed in this book are 

 not what they should be. 



Mr. Pyles — In order that the Minutes 

 become law, they must be adopted 

 either at the close of the meeting or 

 at the next annual meeting before they 

 become a fixed law, and if they have 

 not been adopted they can be changed, 

 and they cannot if they have been 

 adopted, unless by another act. 



I myself would be opposed to going 

 on and undertaking to settle this mat- 

 ter at this time because there will be 

 some questions along this line and I 

 think it should be thrashed out thor- 

 oughly before any action Is taken. Per- 

 haps some one here is interested in 

 having us remain affiliated with the 

 National. I myself, of course, am in 

 favor of standing upon our own found- 

 ation but I do not believe in taking un- 

 fair advantage of the man who may 

 believe the other way; and I think we 

 should take action on this tomorrow 

 morning. 



Mr. Stone — If a man wants to be a 

 member of the State Association and 

 the National and get the Review he 

 pays $2; the State Association gets 

 50 cents. 



President Baxter — My understanding 

 is not that way. 



Mr. Stone — That is the way I have 

 been instructed. 



President Baxter — I know that it was 

 decided out there that it was not ob- 

 ligatory on any person joining the Na- 

 tional, to take the Review; the Review 

 is no part nor parcel of the -National; 

 strictly independent of it. 



Mr. Stone — $2 pays the whole bill; 

 for the Bee-Keepers' Review $1, and 

 50 cents goes to the National to pay 

 their expense, 50 cents going to the 

 State. 



Mr. Hawkins — I think that is one 

 grand bluff. If they can get $1 for the 

 Bee-Keepers' Review they will be $1 

 ahead because I do not value the Bee- 

 Keepers' Review very highly. I think 

 somebody has tried to get by with that 

 $1 proposition for the Review. It has 

 been done as a great many other things 

 are done; they fix things over to suit 

 themselves, and the last one fixes it to 

 suit himself. I feel confident our Presi- 

 dent, having been on the ground, Avould 

 know what kind of Act was passed by 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association 



and if he says it was $1 for the Na- 

 tTtonal and the Review I believe the 

 President understood it that way, re- 

 gardless. Some of the people who have 

 been doing work for the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, it looks as though 

 their work has been more or less 

 crooked from the start. I think the in- 

 tention was to wreck the National from 

 the start. 



Mr. Seibold — Does not the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association own the Re- 

 view? 



President Baxter — No, they don't. 

 They did until the last meeting; they 

 sold it. 



Mr. Dadant — Mr. President, •! want 

 to say that, in this matter of the Na- 

 tional and the Review, there has been 

 considerable misunderstanding, but I 

 think one thing stands out very promi- 

 nently, that the present editor of the 

 Review is as honest and straight a man 

 as you can find anywhere, and he has 

 been laboring under great difficulties, 

 and managing that paper at a loss. I 

 think we should give him credit for 

 doing his best. 



Mr. Pyles — I have a question here 

 along this same line, that it might be 

 well to read before we get to thrashing 

 it out. 



Question — Has the National Associa- 

 tion benefited the average bee-keeper 

 in the last year, and if so to what ex- 

 tent? 



President Baxter — We might just as 

 well answer that question, if there is 

 any one here "who can answer that; 

 then we can talk further upon the ad- 

 visability of remaining with the Na- 

 tional or not remaining with it. Does 

 any one want to volunteer this inform- 

 ation? 



Mr. Diebold — I have not been bene- 

 fited, except by reading their report of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Association 

 at Denver; that is the only benefit I 

 received. 



President Baxter — Thej' published a 

 partial report in the Review, nothing 

 very definite, and probably not exactly 

 as it took place there. I can say that, 

 because w^e had some pretty tough 

 times there. A committee was ap- 

 pointed for the purpose of incorporat- 

 ing the National at the St. Louis meet- 

 ing a year ago last February; our 

 President, Mr. Gates, was on that Com- 

 mittee; Mr. Gates was with us here 



