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there. It might be all right to put in 

 a Bill for the Legislature to have them 

 make an appropriation for it. 



President Baxter— What is your 

 pleasure on th^? 



Mr. Kildow — This fall at the Fair, 

 Doctor Baxter sprung this on me; I 

 don't know how long he had it in 

 mind. We have been for a number of 

 years now showing the product of the 

 bee-hive; that is all we have been 

 doing. Now it is getting time to edu- 

 cate our people, showing where we get 

 this, how we get it and the whole 

 thing from beginning to end, lecture to 

 them when the crowd gets there and 

 show them the different hives; if some 

 one will show them the manipulation 

 of the hive and everything about it, 

 it will draw the crowd and it will 

 educate them about bee-keeping on a 

 higher plane than it has ever been be- 

 fore. 



We show them, the product every 

 year but it is the same thing over and 

 over again, and they will get tired of 

 it pretty soon and crowd us out or cut 

 the premiums down so we won't get 

 anything. 



It looks to me as though we have to 

 change our tactics and get more of the 

 educational feature in this. 



I talked to Mr. Stone and Mr. Cop- 

 pin and I think another one or two 

 during the Fair, and they said they 

 would bring it up at this meeting. 



I think we ought to discuss it here 

 and have this meeting see the Agri- 

 cultural Board and see what can be 

 done about getting a new building ex- 

 clusively for honey exhibits and bees; 

 or give us all the room we have there 

 —the center. 



Mr. Stone — I would like to add to 

 what I said about Oklahoma City. The 

 exhibitors there paid attention to their 

 honey exhibits; and would have a 

 honey knife, and all the implements 

 that a honey man needed, and prem- 

 iums were offered for them. 



They asked ' me to come out there 

 and be judge and we passed on those 

 things along with the honey. It was 

 considered in their exhibits. 



President Baxter — I have known of 

 an extractor being run right on the 

 Fair Grounds and several thousand 

 pounds of honey sold right there on 

 the grounds. Exhibitors here could do 

 the same thing and take lots of orders 

 for honey. 



Mr. Kildow — It ran in my mind, if 

 we could have a room right in the 

 middle of that pavilion for hives and 

 things we carry — put in a couple of 

 men there each day to explain to 

 visitors as they came, we should have 

 enough to volunteer their services and 

 no one would get tired out; we could 

 take turns through the week. 



If you have an exhibit of that kind 

 there will be many people to look at 

 it and it will keep one or two men 

 talking pretty much during the day. I 

 think it would be one of the best 

 things we could do. 



The Dairy business have a building 

 exclusive for the dairy products; that 

 is all they do have in that, as I un- 

 derstand it. 



I believe if we put this up to them 

 in the right light we could get some- 

 thing. 



'^'^r. Stone — See how many cream 

 separators they have in that building. 



Mr. Kildow — I would be willing to 

 take a day or two and explain what 

 I knew and include my experiences in 

 the treatment of diseases. Some others 

 could do some other part of the talk- 

 ing and in that way we could, make it 

 easy on all of us and advance bee- 

 keeping fifty per cent more than it is. 



Mr. Dadant — The extracting of honey 

 in Minnesota was in a dfferent room, 

 a separate room; it is necessary that 

 it should be because there must be 

 screens to the door where they ex- 

 tract honey. Hundreds of people saw 

 the extracting. 



I know by my own experience how 

 much of an advertisement it is to ex- 

 tract honey before a crowd. 



Probably twenty-five years ago I 

 was a member of the Warsaw Horti- 

 cultural Society. They used to meet 

 at the members' homefs. 



It came my turn to have them at my 

 home. The editor of the Prairie Far- 

 mer of Chicago, then living, promised 

 to be there to lecture. We had our 

 shops running manufacturing founda- 

 tion and we had a big crop of honey 

 and ran the extractor. 



Some gentleman from Keokuk heard 

 of it and told the business men of 

 Main Street, Keokuk, they should hitch 

 up and go over to Dadant's Bee Farm. 



We had over four hundred people 

 that day. It made a very perceptible 

 difference in our sales of honey. Peo- 

 ple knew what extracted honey was 

 in our vicinity; they wanted Dadant's 



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