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SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL EEPORT OF THE 



buyer. Now, I believe that it is necessary 

 for the man who is going to handle your 

 commodity to know exactly what the 

 production is. I heard a man express him- 

 self the other day, "I will never tell any- 

 one again how much honey I have got." 

 That might help him perhaps at the time, 

 but is that the thing that is going to 

 establish confidence, that makes it justi- 

 fiable for the man who has got to invest 

 his money in and hold those goods? Is it 

 going to justify him to invest at the highest 

 price in your product? We must have a 

 degree of confidence, and I think the pro- 

 ducers and the buyers as a whole are 

 worthy of that confidence. 



To sum up the whole situation, it means 

 cooperation. That is an overworked 

 term. It is something that you get tired 

 of hearing, f Everyone is talking about 

 cooperation. I heard a storj' the other 

 day that illustrates the point pretty well. 



There was a young married couple, and 

 they were very happy, as is the way of 

 most young married couples, they couldn't 

 bear to be out of each other's sight? Mary 

 would hardly let John go to the office to 

 take care of his regular business and things 

 went on in this way for some time. Mary 

 would be waiting on the porch when John 

 came home. Finally, John had to take an 

 automobile trip out in the country for 

 some reason or other. He telephoned Mary 

 that he might be a little late to dinner. 

 She got dinner ready and waited. He 

 didn't come. He had gone out in the 

 country, and as sometimes happens, had 

 some automobile trouble. His machine 

 broke down in a rather deserted, part of 

 the country. He couldn't get to a tele- 

 phone or anyone to help him out, he 

 couldn't fix his machine and he was a long 

 ways from town. So he decided that the 

 only thing he could do was to walk back. 

 In the meantime Mary, waiting supper, 

 was getting more and more anxious. She 

 was sure something serious had happened 

 to John and didn't know what to do. 

 Finally, a bright idea struc"k her. She 

 decided she would telegraph to all of 

 John's friends and find out if they knew 

 anything about him, so she sent a tele- 

 gram to each one she could think of, then 

 waited, becoming more anxious all the 

 time. Finally, pretty late in the evening 

 John came walking up the front walk and 

 explained his absence. He had only been 

 home a short time when in came a messen- 

 ger boy with a bunch of messages in his 

 hand. "What does this mean?" said 

 John, and Mary replied, "John, I was so 

 anxious about you that I JMst telegraphed 

 to your friends to find out if they knew 



where you were." John says, "We will 

 see what they have to say about it. " He 

 opened the telegrams and they all read 

 alike, "Doh't worry. John is spending 

 the night with me. " 



(Laughter and applause.) 



The President — I am sure we have all en- 

 joyed this talk. I agree with the gentle- 

 man that the tendency is towards special- 

 ization in the honey business as in 

 practically every other industrj"^. One 

 thing we must look out for, and that is, 

 not to get too many men between the 

 producer and consumer that want profit. 

 We are not grumbling about paying a fair 

 profit to the man that does the work, but 

 we don't want too many fellows in the 

 game. We have a couple of questions in 

 the question box to dispose of. T\Tiat 

 is the advantage of housing an apiarj', is 

 the first one. Will anyone tell us that? 

 Mr. Stewart, have you a house apiary? 



Mr. Stewart— Yes 



The President — We would like to have 

 you tell us about it. 



Mr. Stewart — What are the advantages? 



The President — Yes, sir. 



Mr. Stewart — Well, sir, what are the 

 disadvantages? 



The President — Well, if you will answer 

 our question we will try to answer yOur 

 question. 



Mr. Stewart — Tell me what are the 

 disadvantages. The advantages are such 

 that if mine should burn down tonight 

 before I would get home, I would get 

 another one, and if a man would work in 

 one for six months, he would stop a whole 

 lot of swearing. When I work in my 

 yard, every time there I swear. 



The President — One advantage then is 

 to keep us from swearing (laughter) . 

 Anything else? I understand that in 

 European countries there are more house 

 apiaries than are found in this country. 

 One of the 'advantages is that you can 

 work in the shade. Another is that the 

 bees need not be removed for wintering. 

 They fly out, it requires no special prepara- 

 tion in the fall for wintering and there is 

 no unpacking required. I never used one 

 of them myself and could not speak from 

 experience. 



Mr. Wheeler — One advantage would be 

 keeping thieves out. 



The Secretary — I think if they wanted 

 the honey bad enough, they would go 

 through a building just as quick as they 

 would through a hive. 



The President — In my bee-keeping ex- 

 perience for the last fifteen or sixteen years , 

 I have only had one hive stolen. I have 

 had some other hives disturbed. One 



