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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE 



What is iycur pleasure — is there 

 anything more? 



Mr. Williams — Is it the intention to 

 have a committee appointed on the 

 matter I spoke of? 



President Baxter — Did it suggest a 

 committee? 



Mr. Williams — Yes, in the paper I 

 read I suggested a committee be ap- 

 pointed from this as well as other 

 State Associations and to avoid any 

 suggestion of individual commercial- 

 ism that the state meeting would be 

 the proper ones to take it up — it was 

 suggested that a committee be ap- 

 pointed cpmposed of men familiar 

 with the working of the school system 

 and ethics of the profession, to take 

 up this matter of having the use of 

 honey taught in public schools. 



Some of the states are going to do 

 that and possibly it would be a help to 

 have Illinois represented with a com- 

 mittee of that kind. 



I would be glad if this could be 

 done. 



President Baxter — Members of this 

 Association, you have heard the paper 

 read and have heard the suggestion — 

 what is your pleasure? 



Mr. Withrow — I believe it would be 

 a good idea to have a committee ap- 

 pointed to wait on the State Superin- 

 tendent ^nd see if he could not help 

 us out some. I will make a motion 

 to that effect. 



President Baxter — A committee of 

 how many? 



Mr. Withrow — Three. 



Mr. Pyles — I second the mation. 



Mr. Diebol^d — I suggest Doctor Phil- 

 lips, r" 



Doctor Phillips — Mr. Chairman, I 

 don't know anything about Domestic 

 Science work and consequently I could 

 not make any suggestions of any value 

 along that line. 



Mr. Pyles — The bee-keepers them- 

 selves will be able to do a good deal 

 of work if they wish to . The glucose 

 people in many schools have exhibited 

 the stuff they manufacture: they give 

 samples away and they furnish the 

 schools with everything they need and 

 the use of glucose is being taught in 

 some of the schools. 



For instance: At St. Anne, when I 

 was there the last day of school, and 

 I went up in the afternoon to see the 

 work, they had a case of those 



samples; the Standard Oil Company 

 had their product exhibited. Bee- 

 keepers, if they wish to do so, can get 

 hold of the school boards and offer 

 them some of the samples that we 

 can produce, and this can be brought 

 before the children and they can be 

 taught how the work can be done, and 

 I am sure the school board will assist 

 us in any work we wish done. 



It is up to us bee-keepers to do all 

 the work we are a mind to, but unless 

 the bee-keepers stand behind the com- 

 mittee it will not be worth anything 

 to have a committee appointed. 



President Baxter— I believe it stands 

 principally with the individual bee- 

 keeper; i don't think committees can 

 accomplish much. Possibly 'we might 

 give it a trial. 



Mr. Dadant — I think in the very few 

 words Doctor Phillips spoke he men- 

 tioned the key of the matter — Domes- 

 tic Science. 



That is where it must be taught — 

 to the children. If we could only have 

 put in the text books adopted by the 

 schools some mention of the greater 

 value of honey as compared to those 

 other sugars — and have it taught in 

 Domestic Science classes, and the lit- 

 tle girls taught they must prefer honey 

 to glucose! 



It is strange so many women think 

 there is so much in corn syrup; many 

 women make their preserves with corn 

 syrup; when there is no comparison 

 between corn syrup and honey or pure 

 sugar. 



I believe the State Association 

 would have more power than any in- 

 dividual, in going before the Super- 

 intendent of Schools and endeavoring 

 to get it before the Domestic Science 

 classes and urging upon him the 

 greater value of honey. And show 

 him there should be as much differ- 

 ence between honey and glucose as 

 between butter and oleomargarine, and 

 have the children so taught. 



Question — Would it not be to our 

 advantage if we could furnish these 

 Normal Schools with the analysis of 

 honey ? 



Doctor Phillips — They have that. 



Mr. Bennett — I have a daughter at- 

 tending Normal School. They have 

 practiced teachers and they practice 

 teaching them for Domestic Science 

 teachers, and I don't hear anything 



