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"makes any difference. There is no 

 meeting' set — any day. 



Mr. Bruner — What is the custom? 

 We don't know anything' about field 

 meetings; what is the eustom — what 

 is the general rule, June or July? 



Mr. Kildow — The best time, any- 

 where from June to as late as the 

 middle of September. 



Mr. France — Before or after your 

 honey harvest? 



Mr. Kildow — July and August seems 

 to be the best time. 



Mr. Bruner — Most of these bee- 

 keepers in Chicago are situated so that 

 they could attend a field meeting al- 

 most any Saturdaj^ afternoon during 

 the summer, I take it; Saturday would 

 be the best day in Chicago. 



Mr. Chairman, I move the Chair be 

 ■empowered to appoint such a commit- 

 tee to make those arrangements. A 

 •committee of five. « 



Motion seconded and carried. 



President France — I believe, Mr. 

 Secretary, it would be well to appoint 

 Mr. Kildow at the head of that; he 

 can confer with the other committees, 

 to get outside men. 



President France — I will appoint: 

 Mr. Kildow, Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Bruner, 

 Mr. Bull, Mr. Smith. 



President France — One part of that 

 committee ought to be for publicity, 

 to look after the advertising in your 

 various daily papers as well as notices 

 to individual members — whom can we 

 get on that? 



Please bear in mind, the naming of 

 a committee is only the beginning; a 

 committee cannot do it all; they will 

 do their best to make this field meet 

 a success, but in order to make it a 

 success you must not only bring the 

 Lunch, but come with a spirit of friend- 

 liness, and try to get some neighbor 

 bee-keeper to come along with you. 



Mr. Wheeler — I think that our Presi- 

 dent ought to be on that committee. 

 He has done so fine this time, I don't 

 believe we can do without him on that 

 committee, Mr. France. 



Mr. Smith — I think it is generally 

 understood that the President is a 

 member of all committees, ex-offlcio. 



Mr. Kildow — I think you better let 

 me off that committee and have some 

 one from Chicago. I think you ought 

 to have a committee of men close 



around Chicago. I do not know the 

 people around here nor places. 



I will do all I can to help them out. 

 Your members of that committee 

 ought to be in and close around Chi- 

 cago; I think you had better let me 

 off and put some one else in my place. 



President France — The only reason 

 I put you on that committeee — this 

 committee wants to work in conjunc- 

 tion with the others; you are in a 

 place to know the conditions better 

 than any one. 



President France — We have on our 

 program — "Consideration of Display of 

 Honey, and Cooking and Baking with 

 Honey." 



If any one has something good to 

 eat — show it. 



My wife put in the better part of a 

 day getting ready for this; then I came 

 off without it. 



We appreciate the fact that honey 

 is worth in many ways the value cf 

 honey in baking and candies, which 

 has not been generally known. 



It is time we educate the consumer 

 and sell our honey faster. May I say 

 that one of the things that has helped 

 to sell my honey product has been to 

 furnish to each new customer one of 

 those little booklets giving recipes for 

 the use of honey jn cooking. 



Then there is the follow-up system; 

 after a person has had that honey for 

 a short time, say to them — have you 

 tried any of those recipes? How do 



you like Bakings No 



and Candies Xo ? We. at home, 



think they are pretty good. If you 

 have not tried them, do so. Say, there 

 is one which my wife says is so nice; 

 just add a little more flour in the 

 making and see if you don't like that 

 one. 



Follow this up; get them to use it. 



The first thing you know they are 

 out of honey, and they will tell you, 

 "I want a five-gallon can." 



As an illustration of how to use 

 those books — may I give one other: 

 There was a fund put in my hands for 

 advertising the use of honey; I came 

 here to your city and made a display 

 of honey at the Pure Food Show which 

 costs, by far, too much, our floor space 

 in the Coliseum costs us $350 to begin 

 with, and because of the good gener- 

 ous hearts of some of your best bee- 

 keepers, especially Mr. Wheeler, we 

 made a display costing us $800; and 

 all we got was a piece of paper — a 



