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there any remarks to be further made 

 on the subject? 



Mr. Diebold — If we do not affiliate 

 with the National, what will be the 

 admission into the National? 



Mr. Dadant— $1.00. 



Mr. Diebold — We do not get the Re- 

 view, either. 



Mr. Dadant — Allow me to state: 

 That depends entirely on the publisher 

 of the Review, if he is willing to ac- 

 cept the two together; I don't know 

 just what he gets; the Constitution 

 has never been lived up to and the 

 matter has been changed by him a 

 number of times. He furnishes the 

 Review — that is his lookout. I be- 

 lieve you would have to pay more than 

 $1.00; something like $1.50. 



Mr. Williams— $2.00, is it not? 



Mr. Dadant — When they reorganized 

 it was $1.00 for membership in the 

 National and the Review. Now that 

 he owns the Review, I don't know 

 what he will do but, if you send to 

 him, he is perfectly honest and you 

 can depend on his treating you right. 



Mr. Williams — I am not a member 

 but according to the Constitution that 

 was adopted there last year, in Article 

 4, Section 3, this body or any other 

 body can affiliate as a body and can 

 have one vote for every fifty members; 

 that does not state that they have to 

 pay dues for each member. This is 

 Article 4, Section 3, if I remember the 

 wording. 



Any Association can affiliate by res- 

 olution and then it has to be acted on 

 by the National at its first meeting; 

 then lower down it says that individ- 

 uals pay $2.00; when they don't pay 

 that they are dropped. $2.00 — and half 

 of that goes into the subscription fund 

 .and half into the general fund. The 

 subscription fund is supposed to pay 

 for the paper; you don't have to take 

 the Review unless you want to. 



Mr. Baxter — The question is this: 

 That this Association discontinue to 

 affiliate with the National. 



All those that vote aye will mean to 

 discontinue the affiliation; no, means 

 to continue. 



All those in .favor of the motion 

 signify it by saying aye; contrary — 

 no. 



Unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Baxter — We are no longer affili- 

 ated with the National. 



President Baxter — Is there anything 

 else on the program? We are ready 

 for Mr. Williams' paper if it is the 

 wish of the society. 



Mr." Stone — ^If there are any here 

 who want to unite with the society 

 and pay $1.00 we are ready to receive 

 it at any time. 



Mr. Hawkins — I move Mr. Williams 

 be given the privilege of the floor. 



Motion seconded and carried. 

 Mr. Williams — This relates to hav- 

 ing the use of honey taught in schools. 



A paper by Mr. Geo. W. Williams of 

 Redkey, Ind.: 



ONE PROMISING OUTLOOK FOR 

 DARK HONEY. 



A decade ago, Geo. W. York told us 

 it was not over-production, but under- 

 consumption that ailed the honey mar- 

 ket. Since those words were uttered, 

 the ratio of production has remained 

 practically unchanged, although about 

 twice the amount of honey is produced 

 and consumed today as when those 

 words were uttered. 



Even with this large increasCjO the 

 honey market of the United States is 

 really undeveloped, and capable^ of 

 enormous expansion. 



In our pessimistic moods, we are in- 

 clined to view with alarm the widen- 

 ing alfalfa and sweet clover areas, the 

 rapidly awakening interest in the 

 south, and the rapid increase of spe- 

 cialists with their automobiles and 

 outyards. 



But so long as only approximately 

 one home in a thousand uses honey 

 consistently throughout the year, and 

 so long as six homes out of every ten 

 do not know the taste of honey eleven 

 months out of the year, and three out 

 of every ten never see it at all, the 

 conditions are not so discouraging, 

 after ^11. 



As a business proposition, we must 

 face the certainty of a very large in- 

 crease in production of honey in the 

 next few years, and, if prices are even 

 to be maintained at the present prices, 

 new customers must be secured, and 

 new uses must be provided to absorb 

 the increased supply. 



This will not come by chance. In 

 these modern days of keen competi- 

 tion, results come only from following 

 carefully conceived policies of prepar- 

 ation and education, sometimes cover- 

 ing considerable periods of time. 



