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TEX!TH ANNUAL, REPORT O'F THE 



that we want to bring up in the min- 

 utes of the last meeting so I will read 

 them: 



MINUTES OF LAST MEETING. 



The meeting was called to order by Vice 

 President A. L. Kildow, at 10 a. m.. 

 November 18, 1909. 



The meeting was opened by prayer bv 

 George W. York, of Chicago. A member- 

 ship of twenty-flve were present at the 

 opening of the meeting. 



Reading of minutes of last meeting was 

 dispensed with. 



Secretary's report ^was read and ap- 

 proved. ■>• 



Mr. Dadant moved that a committee be 

 appointed to act on the resolutions recom- 

 mended in the Secretary's report. The 

 Chair appointed: C. P. Dadant, J. W 

 Bowen, and W. H. Hyde, as such Com- 

 mittee on Resolutions. 



The Treasurer read his report, which 

 was referred to the Auditing Committee 

 to be appointed. 



The Auditing Committee was then ap- 

 pointed by the Chair as follows: W. B. 

 Moore, I. E. Pyles and Louis Werner. 



The Secretary's financial report was 

 then read and referred to the Auditing 

 Committee. 



Report of the L,egislative-:=-t?ommittee 

 for the previous year was called for and 

 the Secretary, acting as Chairman of the 

 same, gave a verbal report. 



A recess was taken until 1:30 p. m. 



At 1:30 p. m. President Kildow called 

 the meeting to order. 



A paper on European Foul Brood by Dr 

 Miller was read by Mr. York. 



Dr. Bohrer gave an address on the 

 necessity of Foul Brood law for all the 

 States. 



The candidates named for Foul Brood 

 Inspectors were: Aaron Coppin, W. B. 

 Moore, A. L. Kildow and Frank Hinderer, 

 to be voted on later; 



Motion by Mr. Bowen that a Legislative 

 Committee of 12 be appointed, to be 

 elected by ballot. Motion carried. Com- 

 mittee to be elected at next session. 

 ^^djourned at 5:30 to meet again at 7:30 

 p. m. for a night session. 



Meeting called to order at 7:30. 



Committee on Resolutions reported the 

 following: 



Resolution on the death of our late 

 President, J. Q. Smith, was read and 

 ordered to be placed In our report and 

 copies be sent to the family. 



A resolution asking for more space at 

 the State Fair for the honey exhibit was 

 read and approved, and a cop-"- ordered 

 sent to Secretary Dickirson, which was 

 sent December 3d. 



A resolution asking that the Premium 

 List be changed in several points named; 

 also to be sent to the Secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture. 



Resolutions tendering the thanks of the 

 Association to Mr. York for the use of his 

 mailing list in sending out matters of in- 

 terest to the Association. 



These resolutions were all acted upon, 

 approved and adopted. The committee 

 were C. P. Dadant, J. W. Bowen apd W. 

 H. Hyde, as named previously. 



Adjourned to meet at 9 a. m. next day. 



9 a, m. Second Day: Motion to proceed 

 to the election of a Foul Brood Inspector 

 carriei. 



Motion prevailed that after the second 

 ballot the lowest one was to be dropped. 



Mr, A. L. Kildow was elected on first 

 ballot, having received a majority of the 

 votes. 



The convention then proceeded to vote 

 for the officers of the Association for the 

 ensuing year. 



The Secretary was instructed to cast 

 the ballot for C. P. Dadant for President 

 for the ensuing year. 



Proceeded to ballot for five Vice Presi- 

 dents with the folio-wing results: 1st, 

 Aaron Coppin; 2d, J. W. Bowen; 3d, Louis 

 "Werner; 4th, W. B. Moore, and 5th, I. E. 

 Pyles. 



Voted that the President cast the bal- 

 lot for J. A. Stone for Secretary, salary 

 placed at $75.00; the salary of the Treas- 

 urer placed at $25.00. 



The Secretary was instructed to cast 

 the ballot for Charles Becker for Treas- 

 urer. 



Committee on Legislation as follows: 

 C. P. Dadant, James A. Stone, Charles 

 Becker, J. W. Bowen, A. L. Kildow, 

 George W. York, Louis Werner, John 

 Bamberger, W. H. Hyde and I. E. Pyles. 



Committee -vra,s called to order and 

 elected C. P. Dadant, Chairman, and J. 

 A. Stone, Secretary, of the committee. 

 • Motion prevailed to appoint a committee 

 of 3 to lay out the work, whereupon 

 Messrs. York, Becker and Stone were 

 appointed such committee. 



On motion the meeting adjourned sine 

 die. . 



Pres. Moore — You have all heard the 

 minutes of the last meeting, are there 

 any alterations? If not they will 

 stand approved. I so declare them. 



Pres. Moore — The next in order is 

 the President's Address; we will omit 

 that -under the circumstances. 



Pres. Moore — ^We will now have the 

 secretary's report: 



SECRETARY'S REPORT FOR 1910. 



Last year our report showed that the 

 membership in the association was the 

 largest we have ever had — 256. 



Even our President remarked last 

 year at the meeting that as the year 

 had been a failure, our membersihip 

 would be apt to be cut down for the year 

 1910.- We are hsippy to say our record 

 of growth has made good, with a. mem- 

 bership of 286, a gain of just 30 over 

 last year. 



Those joining the State Associ- 

 ation direct were 177 



Those joining through -the Chi- 

 cago Northwestern were. 86 



Those joining through the North- 

 ern Illinois and Southern Wiscon- 

 sin were 17 



Those joining through the West- 

 ern Illinois were 6 



Total 286-^ 



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