ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS ASSOCIATION. 



47 



crowded in the space we have, and as time 

 goes on and we possibly can get a better 

 space, there is no doubt that there will be 

 a greater benefit. 



I had Mr. Heinzel in charge of the solic- 

 iting department to get members for the 

 Association and he was a grand success. 

 If you have anything that you want to sell, 

 I would advise you to get Mr. Heinzel to 

 go out and help you. He would corner a 

 man and get him to join the Association 

 and he got 73 of them. Last year we had 

 36 and thought we were doing well. There 

 is no doubt in another year we can possibly 

 double the 73. 



The interest in bee-keeping is on the 

 increase and as we were talking a few 

 minutes ago about the question of an in- 

 spector, I would say that the inspector is 

 a V ry busy man. There was not a minute 

 but what some one was talking to him, 

 in fact, they came so fast that two or three 

 of the men around there volunteered to 

 help him out and I think that it is a good 

 place to reach the average man with a few 

 hives of bees 



We had a book for all bee-keepers to 

 register and do you know that on that 

 book there were over 63,000 colonies of 

 bees represented. Most of them had more 

 than one, from two up to twenty colonies, 

 so there is no doubt that there is a great 

 field for the Association's exhibit, in an 

 educational line at the Illinois State Fair 

 and I hope that this Association will see 

 fit to continue the work. 



The President— I want to tell the ladies 

 and gentelmen present that I resigned 

 from this committee, not because I wanted 

 to get out of the work, but because Mr. 

 Dadant is so much better qualified, 

 visiting fairs in all parts of the country 

 and having charge of bee exhibits, that in 

 many ways he is better qualified to know 

 what has to be done to make a good exhibit 

 than I am and that is the reason that I 

 resigned from this committee and ap- 

 pointed Mr. Dadant in my place. We want 

 to make this committee as strong as pos- 

 sible. I have done nothing on this com- 

 mittee the past year, I am sorry to say, 

 for it is impossible for me to do an5rthing. 

 We must give Dr. Baxter and the other 

 members of the committee a great deal 

 of credit for what they have done. They 

 have certainly accomplished a great deal. 



The next committee will be the Com- 

 mittee on Medals for display at the State 

 meeting.- Mr. Dadant is chairman. 



Mr. Dadant— This matter was dis- 

 cussed betw^n, I believe, the three mem- 

 bers of the committee, our Secretary, Dr. 

 Baxter and myself, is that correct? 



The Secretary — And Mr. Newbum. Mr. 

 Newburn, when he was corresponded with, 

 was away from home. The balance of the 

 committee proceeded and left it with Dr. 

 Baxter and the Secretary. 



Mr. Dadant — I will ask our Secretary 

 to report on this, because he has done the 

 last work on it. The way the matter 

 stood, there was correspondence between 

 us and when the question was raised of 

 placing my father's picture on one of the 

 medals to be given, I declined to act any 

 further. I did not think it was proper 

 for me to act upon that matter and said 

 I would leave it to the other members of 

 the committee, so that this matter was 

 decided between them. I will therefore ask 

 our Secretarj"^ to report, please, what action 

 was taken 



The Secretary — When Mr. Dadant was 

 dropping out, he asked the Secretary to 

 correspond with different members. He 

 had never been able to get Mr. Newburn 

 and the letter was returned undelivered. 

 We began correspondence with the differ- 

 ent firms who make medals and we got bids 

 from different ones and we went to the 

 Secretary of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture to ascertain where they got the 

 medals that were given every year at the 

 Fair to the old soldiers and which were 

 very fine. He gave the address of the Green 

 Duck Company, of Chicago. We corres- 

 ponded with them and their rate was $75 

 for making the die. We corresponded 

 with several others, and theirs were all 

 $85. We liked the design of the Green 

 Duck Company much better than any 

 other. I submitted it to Dr. Baxter and 

 I believe I sent papers to Mr. Dadant and 

 he sent them back, saying whatever we 

 did he would be satisfied with and we 

 closed the contract for them to make the 

 die at $75. It was not very long until 

 they wrote us back that because of the 

 change in price of everything they could 

 not possibly do it for less than $125. It 

 would take hand work to do it and it would 

 take so long that they could not possibly 

 do it for less than $125, and Dr. Baxter 

 and I resolved that we would not have the 

 medal made, but would issue certificates 

 and this is the design. The doctor knew 

 of a man who would draw that certificate 

 and make it like that (illustrating) and we 

 would give that certificate to members 

 who exhibited 150 pounds of comb honey, 

 or 150 pounds of extracted honey. We 

 were to have four medals, two gold medals 

 and two silver medals. The two 'gold 

 medals are to be Dr. Miller and LaUg- 

 stroth, and the silver medals were to be 

 Father Dadant and Quinby. 



