ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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I had placed up in view last week 

 at our State Convention a list of Wis- 

 consin bee-keepers who had honey 

 for sale and another list of those who 

 had bees for sale, and a list, not so 

 large, of those who wanted to buy. 

 The result was "A" and "B" were ex- 

 changing. One young gentleman liv- 

 'ing near my home told me, before we 

 had commenced, that his 5,000 pounds 

 of honey was all sold for l^c more 

 than he expected to get for it, by just 

 coming to that meeting. 



So that that feature of social and 

 commercial interest is of great im- 

 portance and I do not like to take 

 any of the time away from you. 



Again, I wish that, may I call it a 

 censure, that we would learn at the 

 Chicago -Northwestern meetings that 

 when the time is set, when it is time 

 to sound the gavel, the house would 

 be full to overflowing. 



At a late hour I will have to vary 

 the program in order to bring in all 

 the different features. 



On the Committee on Resolutions, I 

 will appoint Mr. Bull and Mr. Rohrs 

 and Mr. Hassinger. 



On the Auditing Committee: Messrs. 

 Kannenberg, Coppin and Wheeler. 



One other Committee should be fhe 

 Wide Awake Committee. If you please, 

 a few 5'ears ago when Mr. York was 

 living liere and was the presiding offi- 

 cer, I have been to the Chicago-North- 

 western meetings when the room was 

 full to overflowing, and no program. 



We had to quit with the Question 

 Box only partially answered. 



Now, if we have a few questions, 

 we will make the answers to them 

 prompt. I will appoint John C. Bull to 

 take charge of the Question Box. 



At any time, whether it be in be- 

 half of some paper or some question 

 on bee-keeping, you want to bring it 

 out through the Question Box; some- 

 times we can reach it that way "bet- 

 ter than in any other. 



We have on our program for this 

 morning, topic: "A Paper" without a 

 name. Has any one a paper they care 

 to donate? That will come in very 

 nicely at this time. 



We have: "Out Apiaries for Profit," 

 by L. C. Dadant, Hamilton, Illinois; I 

 understand, since I have arrived here, 

 that this family of C. P. Dadant & 

 Sons have, in each- home, sickness; 

 both in the hospital and their respec- 



tive homes, so that it is impossible for 

 any one of them to be with us at this 

 time. 



THE VALUE OF YOUNG QUEENS. 



(By N. E. France.) 



Mr. France — In the absence of a 

 Vice-President, may it be your pleas- 

 ure, I will stay here at the Chair, in 

 case something should come up. 



I do not know whether I should read 

 you a paper I read last week in the 

 Wisconsin Convention along that line 

 of thought, or give you some other. 



I believe I will do this: 



You do not want a copy of what 

 they had in Wisconsin. We will vary 

 from that meeting, if you please, and 

 I will not read my report but will 

 give you a few thoughts: "The Value 

 of Young Queens." 



In my work, as I have traveled over 

 our state now about twenty-one yesLVS 

 inspecting bees, I used to keep a sta- 

 tistical report of each place I visited, 

 not only the number of colonies of 

 bees, the number diseased, the kind 

 or hive, the flow in their locality and 

 the kind and quality of goods that 

 they produce, but also — did they know 

 the age of their queens, and, lastly — * 

 were they subscribers for one or 

 more Bee Journals? 



When I began to sum these up, to 

 my sorrow, I found the number who 

 read and were subscribers for a Bee 

 Journal were so few in the total 

 number, that I said as Governor Hoard 

 had said some years before at a Farm- 

 ers' Institute: "There are many thou- 

 sands of dairynfien in Wisconsin." He 

 said he would modify that to: "There 

 are many thousand cow-owners, but 

 few dairymeil." I found in Wisconsin 

 (I don't suppose it is so in Illinois), 

 that many were registered by the 

 Wisconsin census as bee-keepers 

 when really they were bee-owners and 

 the number who were practical bee- 

 keepers were few. 



Just almost in comparison to the 

 lack of literature, the lack of reading 

 and studying that they do in bee- 

 keeping, so was their bee business. 



When I went to a bee j'ard I could 

 almost, at a glance, tell whether that 

 man was a subscriber to a Bee Journal 

 or not. 



JHives tilted every way, grass up 

 nearly to the top. 



You know how some of these things 



