ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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Many people who come there go 

 away enlightened and they understand 

 why it is the honey is always straight 

 in the sections. 



Now when , they have all this ex- 

 plained to them, you have educated 

 them in a way that is worth millions 

 to the bee-keepers. 



Thej' are doing it in Minnesota — ■ 

 w^hy not in Illinois? 



Illinois must do it and it is up to 

 this Association right here to And the 

 way. 



Mr. Stone — I want to say something 

 along that same line. If the people 

 can listen to a bee-keeper tell how the 

 thing is done, and illustrate it, they 

 will change their minds. We advertise 

 in the Register, honey in 5- and 10- 

 pound pails at 15 cents, and we get 

 from three to five orders every day, 

 and when we get enough we start and 

 go around. Last Friday we went the 

 rounds, my son and I, in the automo- 

 bile; we had it full of buckets of honey 

 and we were all day unti four o'clock 

 in the afternoon, and traveled about 

 50 miles or more. 



We advertised it — • 5- and 10-pound 

 pails, and a number in giving their 

 orders said thej' wanted it to be comb 

 lioney; one man said I want comb 

 honey and I want it to be nice. 

 We took two 10-pound pails of ex- 

 tracted honey and he took it. But 

 at first he said: "I don't want that; 

 that is not pure honey." His wife said: 

 "Is that pure, real honey?" I said: 

 "There is our card on there; we stand 

 behind that for all we are worth. I 

 would be fined big if that was adul- 

 terated. We have never had any no- 

 tice that we were furnishing anything 

 that was not pure" 



The man said: "Yes, in this day 

 you can't furnish anything adulterated 

 without making yourself liable." His 

 wife tasted the honey and said: "That 

 sure is honey. We will send you an- 

 other order pretty soon." 



They bought that to sell again. 



We failed only in one place where 

 the lady didn't happen to be at home 

 and the lady who was in charge sa'.d 

 she would not risk taking it if it was 

 ever so pure, she would not dare to, 

 because the lady wanted comb honey. 



There came a man in his automo- 

 "bile Saturday evening. "We have been 

 out to Ashland and my wife cold me 

 to stop at your place and get some 

 lioney if you have comb." I said: "We 



don't have comb honey; we sell ex- 

 tracted." I did everything I could to 

 convince hini it was all right; he took 

 five pounds of it, and he will be back 

 for some more. 



With honey as good as it is this 

 year, people will learn to like it. I 

 showed this man my bee house and 

 what I used; I showed him that it was 

 a big business and that this thing of 

 adulterated honey — there is nothing to 

 it. 



President Baxter — Gentlemen, this 

 has been discussed pretty well. I 

 think the best way to go at this would 

 be to embody it in a resolution, setting 

 forth what has been done by other 

 states and what we want, and go to 

 the Board of Directors of the State 

 Fair Association and put that in the 

 hands of a good committee, and I 

 think we will probably get what we 

 want sooner or later, probably very 

 soon. 



I think that would be the proper way 

 to get at it. 



Now, I would be opposed to doing 

 anything along the lines Mr. Pyles 

 suggested. I don't believe we should 

 educate the average bee-keeper in the 

 State Fair as to how to produce good 

 honey. 



They should take interest enough in 

 these meetinugs and field meets to at- 

 tend, or go without the knowledge. 



What we want to do is to educate 

 the public in the usefulness of the 

 honey bee; also in the healthfulness of 

 honey as food, so that they wil con- 

 sume as large a quantity of it as pos- 

 sible. 



We want to get all horticulturists 

 and the average farmer and every- 

 body, in fact, interested in the bees, 

 in the production of the bees, and in 

 that way we will have the protection 

 that we want from the legislature. 



That is the only way we can get our 

 appropriation for foul brood and for 

 the sustaining of this Association and 

 for other purposes that we need funds 

 for. 



Horticulturists are coming over to 

 us very fast. They are beginning to 

 realize the absolute necessity of bees, 

 and the farmer also is awakening to a 

 realization of this. 



We want to educate the public at 

 large in these various lines. 



Mr. Stone — The farmers are begin- 

 ning to want to buy bees to put in 



