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hibits have been shown. Honey demonstrations (with honey 

 served on hot biscuits) were in operation almost continually. Hot 

 coffee was also served while exhibits were open. 



When the first session opened, twenty affiliated associations 

 were represented by delegates. Attendance at the public sessions 

 were from seventy-five to one hundred and fifty. 



The Colorado Honey Producers' Association had the store 

 and office at 1428 Market Street beautifully decorated, and the 

 beemen enjoyed visiting the establishment. 



One of the main difficulties was in finding time for the read- 

 ing of all the papers. Too many were presented and there was 

 not time enough for discussion. A radical change should be 

 made in the make-up of future programs. Too many papers on 

 mai'ieting and co-operation were presented, although it was evi- 

 dent that these subjects are live ones. 



The business sessions were characterized by some flurries 

 that at times seemed destined to become wrecking to the organ- 

 ization, but most differences were adjusted before the end of the 

 convention. The incorporation of the National drew out the most 

 of the trouble. 



The address by Mr. E. R. Root "Migratory Beekeeping," was 

 excellent and while he had no great success to report, was still in- 

 terested enough in the proposition to continue trying. Mr. Her- 

 sperger, of Ordway, related his successful experience in moving 

 bees from Ordway, Colorado, to Arkansas and back again. 



Mr. Grover Matthews, of California and Idaho, gave some of 

 his experiences in moving bees between those two states. 



The paper on "Marketing Honey," by John C. Bull emphasized 

 the point of maintaining the price on honey by selling direct to 

 the consumer. Mr. Bull has followed this plan very successfully 

 in Indiana. 



Dr. Phillips' paper on "The Development of the Honey Mar- 

 ket" really dealt with the obstacles in the way of co-operation. Dr. 

 Phillips' paper was a well arranged presentation of the subject by 

 one who has had to draw all of his facts from observation rather 

 than experience. If Dr. Phillips was an actual commercial pro- 

 ducer, he would have endeavored to also point a way as well as 

 herald the pitfalls. Dr. Phillips said that the true friend of co- 

 operation would frown upon any co-operative venture foredoomed 

 to failure. If Dr. Phillips' advice had been followed prior to the 

 organization of the western honey associations now in existence, 

 they would never have been formed. The main feature of his 

 paper was the insistence that co-operation has to grow from the 



