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there were 86 members last year. Now 

 a number of the Chicago-Northwest- 

 ern members are bee-keepers in other 

 States and many of them say that 

 they do not care anything about join- 

 ing the Illinois State Association, and 

 ask why they should pay 25 cents; ac- 

 cording to the Constitution we have 

 to come in as a body. 



Mr. Stone — ^That does not mean, Mr. 

 York, members outside the State; that 

 means members in the State. There 

 was a resolution passed, and it went 

 into our minutes to that effect — mem- 

 bers in the State. 



Mr. York — If we are going to join 

 in a body, that means everybody. The 

 Chicago-Nbrthwestern is held in Il- 

 linois, but its members do not all live 

 in Illinois. 



What I was getting at is this: If 

 they should vote not to join at all un- 

 der this amendment, you would be out 

 nearly $30, 



Mr. iSitone — ^In that case this Asso- 

 ciation would say, "We can't pay for 

 your report; we can't pay for the re- 

 port if you don't join our Association." 

 They will get value received by get- 

 ting the report of their association. 

 They also get ours, and they get the 

 National. 



Mr. York — As President of the Chi- 

 cago-Northwestern, I want to under- 

 stand it thoroughly so that when I get 

 up before thart Association I will be 

 able to talk intelligently, and urge 

 them to continue their membership 

 here, because the report you send out 

 to them is worth a couple of dollars — 

 your own report, the Chicago-North- 

 western report and the National re- 

 port, three reports in one book — 50 

 cents would be very cheap for that. 



I want simply to know your reasons 

 for desiring to raise the dues. I am 

 very anxious that the Chicago -North- 

 western members shall all become 

 members of the Illinois State Associa- 

 tion. 



Some one has suggested, "Wliy 

 doesn't the Chicago -Northwestern join 

 with the State and give up their Asso- 

 ciation?" We don't want to do that; 

 I think we ought to keep up our As- 

 sociation. There are a great many 

 bee-keepers in the Chicago -North- 

 western Association, and it helps the 

 Illinois State to have them become 

 members, because it Increases your 

 membership here, and when you go 



before the Legislature you have a 

 larger list of bee-keepers to present. 

 We arei going to raise our dues, I 

 think, in the Chicago-Northwestern 

 Association, to $1.50, so that we can 

 pay you 5,0 cents, the Nlational 50 cents, 

 and then have for our own use 50 

 cents per member, because we cannot 

 run our Association for less than 50 

 cents each. 



Mr. Moore — In case of affiliating as- 

 sociations becoming members at 25 

 cents, does not that include member- 

 ship in the National? 



Mr. Stone — ^No. I want to say one 

 thing in regard to what Mr. York has 

 said: The Chicago -Northwestern, 

 when it was .under another name, af- 

 filiated with the Illinois State, and one 

 meeting was heldl in 1892' in Chi- 

 cago in addition to the one here 

 at (Springfield, and that meant 

 two meetings in one year for 

 the State Association. In 1893 the Na- 

 tional met during the World's Fair 

 year at Chicago, in the neighborhood 

 of the World's Fair, and being Secre- 

 tary of both of them, I conferred with 

 some of the members of the executive 

 committee in the National Ass'n, 

 and we decided that we would not 

 have any convention in Chicago that 

 fall because the National had been 

 there. Mr. EGutchinson was Secre- 

 tary, and he made a strenuous kick 

 in some of the bee-papers, and said 

 it was on account of the Secretary of 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion that a meeting was not held in 

 Chicago that fall. We intended to 

 hold another one the next year, and 

 they didn't give us a chance. That 

 was all there was to it. 



Mr, York — The Chicago-N'orthwest- 

 ern Association, as we call it now, was 

 not started until 1898. 



Mr. Stone — ^^The last meeting that the 

 State Association had in connection 

 with the old Northwestern Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Society was the year before the 

 World's Fair, 



Mr. Kluck — As President of the 

 Northern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, I would state that Association 

 has simply paid their quarter per 

 member to the State because they 

 thought they recognized in the State 

 the only official way of getting a foul- 

 brood law established. They thought 

 the State representatives would not 

 recognize Northern Illinois. That Is 



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