Vol. xvn. 



JULY, 1907. 



No. 7. 



REPORT OF THE COLORADO STATE BEE-KEEPERS' 

 ASSOCIATION. 



ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT COLLINS. 



THE ASSOCIATION, to my 

 view, should turn all its energies 

 to the question of a more per- 

 fect organization. The productive 

 activity in every industry throughout 

 the whole country a-nd throughout the 

 whole world turns to the question of 

 co-operative organization. It seems 

 to be the one subject of all productive 

 forces, and, in fact, all other forces 

 of society, to become more perfectly 

 organized, and if we are to receive 

 the greatest benefit possible for the 

 organization it must come out of the 

 thought that is today governing all 

 lines of action — co-operation. 



Progress in all cases, in every branch 

 of the social or economical relation 

 of human beings has adopted the 

 mode of co-operative organization to 

 further its interests. It is realized 

 by everyone that the greatest good 

 to the individual can be obtained only 

 through the greatest good to the 

 greatest number, and the greatest good 

 to the greatest number is invariably 

 brought about through co-operative 

 action and organization; and it is a 

 fact that if I wish and desire the most 

 and best for myself I can get it only 

 through securing to each and every 

 member of the society the greatest 

 and best for them, and I believe that 

 the Bee-Keepers' Association can 

 more thoroughly and perfectly realize 

 the object of the Association in the 



nKjre perfect and thorough organiza- 

 tion of the bee-keepers of the state. 

 You can go back not very far when 

 we reach the stage of practically no 

 organization of society save the crudest 

 form of co-operation, experienced in 

 the local political organization, we will 

 find the last performing their work 

 individually, each one striving for him- 

 self and gaining what he can for him- 

 self. 



There are hardly any lines of thought 

 w i t h o u t co-operative organization 

 work along that line, and in most 

 of the states co-operative organiza- 

 tions and insurance companies spend 

 most of their time trying to keep 

 up with this thought. Our m-embers 

 also, have so many dififerent organiza- 

 tions that they cannot find time to 

 attend same, but through this i>rgan- 

 ization only can we realize the ben- 

 efits that we now receive, and through 

 perfecting them only can we reach 

 higher and higher benefits than any 

 industry has known or realized in the 

 past, and I believe the time will come 

 when, through perfected organization, 

 we will produce more honey to put 

 on the market than the world has 

 ever dreamed possible to do; but we 

 can only do it through harmonious 

 action and all pushing to the one 

 proposition of the most proficient 

 work on the part of each individual 

 in the organization representing our 



