ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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there is no other state I have been in 

 that has the display of bee and honey 

 exhibits they have: A cage for demon- 

 stration work, owned by the State Fair 

 and housed out of the rain during the 

 year, except Fair days, all under good 

 management. They don't allow all 

 kinds of things to get in there to take 

 up space. 



By your continuous application — 

 though you may not gain it at first, you 

 will succeed; Illinois exhibits should 

 have more space; and your exhibits 

 can be added to by other states — but 

 now there is no room. 



Again, I question the advisability of 

 your revising the premium list by 



which premiums are awarded only to 

 Illinois goods. 



Michigan and Wisconsin and Minne- 

 sota have for several years narrowed 

 their premium list to Wisconsin, Min- 

 nesota or Michigan goods respectively ■ 

 to their state. In a way that gives 

 local men a chance, but it cut out the 

 outsider. 



The older people know how Mr. 

 Hutchinson used to make a display 

 which cost him more money to accu- 

 mulate than his premiums, so that 

 when he made the circuit, though he 

 had won the greater part of the prem- 

 iums, when he got home he was finan- 

 cially out — yet the satisfaction to him 

 of those awards, he said, more than 

 paid him for the money he had ex- 

 pended. 



Mr. Wheeler — How about the other 

 fellow who didn't get the awards and 

 didn't get his pay even in awards? 



Mr. Bull — He probably didn't have 

 as much expense. 



President France — The local man 

 does not have as much expense as the 

 man from abroad. 



But the question is: Do you want a 

 big display? 



If you have a big building — don't 

 narrow it down to Illinois. 



Mr. Coppin — It is not narrowed down 

 now to Illinois; it is open to the world 

 and has been all the time, as near as I 

 know. . 



Mr. Bruner — I suggest that this be 

 left to a Resoultion Committee in con- 

 nection with Mr. Baxter. 



As Chairman of that Resolution 

 Committee, I would ask Mr. Baxter or 

 any one else that has any resolution 

 to prepare them and send them in. 



President France — We will leave it 

 then with the Resolution Committee. 



Now, so far as I know, our program 

 has been worked off with the excep- 

 tion of this all important subject — 

 Bee Diseases. 



Mr. Kannenberg — Was it not sug- 

 gested to have a delegate to the State 

 Convention appointed? ' 



President France — Do we want a 

 delegate to the Illinois State meet- 

 ings? 



Mr. Kildow — I, for one, would like 

 to see this Association here send a 

 representative direct to the State. I 

 believe it would be a good thing. 



Mr. Bull — I believe that would be a 

 good idea. We have been joining the 

 State for a number of years — for the 

 last 12 years I have been here. I 

 think it would be a good idea to send 

 a representative to the State. 



Mr. Baxter — We will be very glad 

 to have you there. 



President France — Is it the sense of 

 this meeting that we as the Chicago- 

 Northwestern have a delegate at the 

 Illinois State meeting? 



Mr. Kannenberg — I move you that 

 We elect a representative to the Illi- 

 nois State Convention. 



A member — I second the motion. 

 Motion seconded and carried. 

 Mr. Kannenberg — I nominate Mr. 

 Bull. 



A member — I nominate Mr. Stanley. 



President France — Just a word of 

 explanation in behalf of this delegate 

 going; does he bear all his expense, 

 or part of his expense, or what is the 

 consideration of your representative 

 there ? 



A member — I don't see how we can 

 pay the delegate's expenses. It will 

 cost considerable money to send you 

 to Springfield. 



I think the honor of being elected 

 should be sufficient in this case and 

 let the delegate pay his own expense. 

 Let that be understood. 



President France — If the delegate 

 lives a considerable distance he has to 

 be pretty generous. 



President France — You have two 

 nominees. 



A member — I make a motion that 

 this Convention be called to order at 

 1:15. 



