ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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value of the darker grades in cooking, 

 taught in the Domestic Science de- 

 partments of our Public Schools 

 throughout the states. 



This matter will be presented to a 

 number of State Meetings this fall, 

 and I would suggest that committees 

 composed of the best material obtain- 

 able be appointed from the various 

 associations, to arrange for this in- 

 struction. These committees should 

 co-operate with each other, and col- 

 lectively can wield the necessary in- 

 fluence to attain the desired results. 

 In the selection of the members of 

 these committees, due attention must 

 be given to the selection of persons 

 familiar with the working of the Do- 

 mestic Science machine, and the ethics 

 of the profession. 



We offer the best services of our 

 paper to assist in the Avork, and we 

 are sure the journals will lend their 

 aid. This is an opportunity that must 

 not be neglected. We are all partners 

 in this business and must work in 

 harmony with each other. We will 

 remember that the ups and downs of 

 the bee-keepers in one locality affect 

 the bee-keepers in all other localities. 

 We must realize that the low price 

 paid for the dark buckwheat honey or 

 the dark honey from the south or else- 

 where drags down the price of your 

 choice honeys, in your market. There 

 is no getting away from the fact that 

 we must consider our business as a 

 whole, and work for its uplift in a 

 broader sense, and get away from the 

 narrow, selfish viewpoint. 



The bee-keepers are realizing this, 

 and from every region we are receiv- 

 ing assurances of support for a propa- 

 ganda of wider and more general pub- 

 licity of the excellencies of honey. 



GEO. W. WILLIAMS, 

 Redkey, Ind. 



Mr. Baxter — We have a little time: 

 if it is the wish of any of the mem- 

 bers to discuss this paper it will be in 

 order now. 



Mr. Dadant — Mr. President, this 

 statement comes exactlj'^ in line with 

 a statement made to me by Mr. Pel- 

 lett; Mr. Pellett was Inspector of Iowa 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association and he 

 is with us now at Hamilton for a few 

 months. 



Mr. Pellett says the great mistake 

 has been in not having representa- 

 tion of the bee industry in Colleges, 

 in State Agricultural Associations, 



and he brings this as evidence: When 

 oleomargarine was discovered there 

 was a protest raised all over the Unit- 

 ed States by the representatives of 

 the dairy industries, in Colleges, in 

 State Agricultural meetings, every- 

 where, because the dairy is powerful; 

 the result was the people will not buy 

 oleomargarine if they can afford to 

 buy butter, and yet oleomargarine is 

 very much like butter. Many of us 

 do not know when we eat oleomarga- 

 rine. 



In a hotel in Illinois, once, at break- 

 fast, I had by me a traveling man 

 whom I didn't know. He took a little 

 butter and put it on his bread and bit 

 into it and said: "This is the real 

 stuff." I said "what?" He replied 

 "Oleomargarine." I asked him how he 

 knew and he replied that he manu- 

 factured it. 



I could not see any difference from 

 common butter. 



But in the matter of honey why, 

 honey is something like three times as 

 sweet as corn syrup. I was told that 

 corn syrup had about three per cent of 

 saccharine matter; honey has some- 

 thing over eighty per cent. 



If people will taste honey and corn 

 syrup side by side they will readily 

 notice one is a great deal more sweet 

 besides being the straight article. 



Why is it people buy corn syrup and 

 think it is so nice? Because nobody 

 has been protesting against the use of 

 that stuff and urging the use of honey. 

 Once in a while in a meeting of 

 eight or ten bee-keepers, they talk 

 about it and that is all there is to 

 it. 



If we were as active as the dairy 

 industry we would have raised a big 

 protest all over t,he country and tell 

 people not to buy corn syrup, and 

 why, and to buy honey. 



It is time yet — we may talk corn 

 syrup although it is pretty well es- 

 tablished by this time. 



President Baxter — I will announce 

 the Committee on Fair Grounds Build- 

 ing. 



I will a.ppoint Mr. Coppin as Chair- 

 man of that committee; he is com- 

 paratively . a young man and he can 

 boss; Doctor Baxter as another, be- 

 cause he lives in Springfield, although 

 I think we are imposing on him too 

 much because he lives in Springfield; 

 he is close at hand and knows the 

 Agricultural Society Directors; Mr. 



