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honey bee might add anything of any great 

 importance to the State resources, and we 

 find the general public is ;^ery much sur- 

 prised some times to find a man can make a 

 conifortable living and provide for his 

 family from bees and do nothing else. 



I have been fortunate in the last few 

 months in being able to visit a great many 

 of the leading bee-keepers from Canada to 

 Georgia and west of the Rocky Mountains, 

 part of these trips being for the Airerican 

 Bee Journal. I took a great deal of 

 pleasure in taking my camera with me and 

 taking different things that might be in- 

 structive and interesting in different sec- 

 tions of the country and incidentallj' I 

 brought in some pictures showing the 

 interior of a hive and life of the bee, and 

 these conditions, though they are very 

 familiar to most of you, yet there are in 

 nearly every audience those who are just 

 beginning and who want to know more 

 about the fundamental principles of bee- 

 keeping and there are those who are in- 

 terested as a matter of general information 

 rather than from a practical standpoint, 

 and so I^ will show you a few slides that 

 I have prepared. 



(The remainder of the lecture was illus- 

 trated by slides.) 



THURSDAY MORNING SESSION. 



The meeting was called to order by the 

 President at 9:00 a. m. 



The President — The first thing this 

 morning I want to say that last year there 

 was appointed a very important committee 

 that we have overlooked, so far it has made 

 no report and as chairman of that commit- 

 tee I think I had better make that report, 

 that is the Legislative Committee, con- 

 sisting of myself as chairman, Mr. Stone, 

 our Secretary, Dr. Baxter, our First Vice 

 President and Mr. Kildow, the State 

 Inspector. 



We went before the Legislative Publicity 

 Committee last fall and made our request 

 for appropriations for the State Society 

 and also for the inspection work and then 

 we were called before the Appropriation 

 Committee of the Legislature, some time 

 in February I think it was and we gave 

 them the facts connected with the require- 

 ments for both the State Society appropria- 

 tions and inspection work and the ^ facts 

 which we gave them were very well re- 

 ceived, and they assured us that wenvould 

 get our appropriation, which we did.; Then 

 we were called before the Governor in 

 March some time, also in regard jto the 

 appropriation and the inspection work, and 

 the Governor gave us to understand that 



he would appoint no inspector of apiaries 

 without consulting the State Association, 

 which promise he kept. Now, that com- 

 mittee ought to be continued. There prob- 

 ably will be no meeting of the Legislature 

 this winter, but it is well to have a com- 

 mittee, and I will reappoint that committee 

 with this change, that instead of myself 

 being chairman, we will make Dr. Baxter 

 chairman of that committee. The Legis- 

 lative Committee will be: Dr. Baxter, 

 Chairman, James H. Stone, A. L. Kildow 

 and E. J. Baxter. Now, then, we have 

 committees to report. How about the 

 Auditing Committee, are they ready to 

 make their report? 



Mr. Kildow — I move that the report 

 be accepted and the committee continued. 



The President — You have heard the 

 motion that the report of the Legislative 

 Committee be received. 



The motion was seconded by Dr. Baxter 

 and carried. 



The President — Now, then, if the Au- 

 diting Committee is not prepared to report 

 we will receive the report of the Committee 

 on Resolutions. Is that committee ready 

 to report? 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RES- 

 OLUTIONS. 



Whereas, The production of sweets is 

 more and more necessary to the sustenance 

 of the human race, 



Whereas, The production of sugar has 

 decreased while the demand is increasing, 



Whereas, Honey is the best and health- 

 iest of all sweets, being a direct product 

 of nature, and growth and encouragement 

 of bee-keeping are in the line of indispensa- 

 ble requirements, 



Therefore Be It Resolved, That we heart- 

 ily approve of our State Association ex- 

 hibit at the State Fiar, especially the 

 public extracting of honey, as it educates 

 the people to its \«alue, and that we 

 earnestly urge the continuance of this, 

 and its extension. 



Resolved, That the continuantion of the 

 work of apiary inspection is urgent, that 

 its extension to all parts of the State should 

 be carried on, and that a sufficient appro- 

 priation is necessary to cultivate the 

 growth of bee-keeping and make the pro- 

 duction of honey more extensive than 

 ever, as honey often wastes in our fileds 

 for want of bees to harvest it: 



That we urge the State University to 

 extend the teaching of bee-keeping and 

 to make this a special department of 

 agricultural education. 



