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TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



the only reason they paid their dues — 

 because they thought the State Asso- 

 cdation would be able to get a foul- 

 brood law passed. Now, then, if Prof. 

 Forbes gets the appointment, I don't 

 believe our Association will pay their 

 dues outside of our home and the Na- 

 tional dues. They would feel as though 

 they were taxed a little bit too high 

 if they had to pay $1.00 to the Na- 

 tional and 50 cents here. 



Mr. Stone — It will be only 50 cents 

 this year to the National. 



Mr. Kluck — As I understand it, the 

 National has grown three times as 

 strong as it was, just through the affil- 

 iation of these other societies. Our so- 

 ciety thinks that with their home so- 

 ciety and with the National, they have 

 enough. 



Mr. Stone — Mr. Kluck acknowledges 

 that they are dead bee-keepers, if 

 men do not think enough about the re- 

 port that the Association gets out to 

 pay 25 cents for it, and will refuse to 

 come into the Association because it 

 costs 25 cents more; besides receiving 

 the report they can come down here if 

 they want to and enjoy all the privi- 

 leges and get all the benefits of this 

 convention. 



Our members say we are pay- 

 ing 50 cents, and the first thing, 

 when an advertisement came out for 

 members who might join' the Chicago - 

 Northwestern, it stated they would get 

 the benefit of the three Associations for 

 $1.00 — get the report of the Illinois 

 iSitate Bee-Keepers' Association, the 

 Northwestern and the National, all 

 three for $1.00. The first letter that 

 came to me after that notice appeared 

 in the American Bee Journal, was from 

 a man at Virden who had been a mem- 

 ber of the State Association, and we 

 got 25 cents out of him because noth- 

 ing was said about the Illinois State, 

 only that he would get the Illinois 

 State Bee-Keepers' Report embodying 

 the National and the Chicago-North- 

 western; we ,got 25 cents instead of 

 50' cents. Supposing they would all do 

 that, what would become of the Illinois 

 State Association after about a year 

 or two? Only give its members time 

 to find out there were three associa- 

 tions they could join and get the same 

 benefit, and we would not get any 

 members. I think this Association has 

 to change that clause or it will be 

 swallowed up, and there will be noth- 



ing left of the Illinois State Associa- 

 tion. 



Mr. Kluck — It costs' a member to 

 come down here from $i4.00 to $15.00; 

 it costs about half of that to go to 

 Chicago — from $6.00 to $10.00; some of- 

 them think they would rather go to 

 Chicago than come here. It takes us 

 a long while to get down here. If I 

 start home tomorrow at 11:35 a. m. I 

 get home at 10 p. m. When I come here 

 I start at 8:30 in the morning and get 

 here at 6:30 p. m. To Chicago we 

 have faster trains, and only a few 

 hours on the road; we can go and come 

 the same day. They seem to prefer 

 to go to Chicago' to the Chicago-North- 

 western on this account; to pay in 

 three or four associations — they don't 

 like to do it; and if the fee is in- 

 creased I know they will simply vote 

 against it as an organization. 



Mr. Seibold — I don't see that that 

 has anything to do with the justice of 

 the matter of which our Secretary has 

 been talking. He is talking about the 

 injustice of our paying 50 cents and 

 other societies paying 25 cents. 



Mr. Diebold — It looks to me that 

 there are not many members of the 

 Northern Illinois Bee-Keepers Asso- 

 ciation. We would like to have them 

 remain with us, but if they should not 

 — I would like to ask Mr. Kluck this 

 question: Would it pay you to pub- 

 lish and print the report of your As- 

 sociation? 



Mr. Kluck — Ours is never published. 



Mr. Diebold — It would not pay you 

 as an Association not to have the re- 

 port of the Illinois State Convention 

 by withholding the 25 cents. I think by 

 paying the 50 cents you would get 

 more than your money's worth. 



Mr. Kluck — I am satisfied they would 

 get their money's worth, all right; 

 they simply would not come into the 

 Association. 



Mr. York — I don't believe that the 

 Northern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will stay out on account of 25 

 cents a member; I believe the Presi- 

 dent would pay that difference him- 

 self, for the whole Association, rather 

 than have them out. I think when it 

 is explained to them they will be per- 

 fectly willing to come in. We will 

 raise our dues, I think, in the Chicago- 

 Northwestern, to $1.50; if we do, we 

 will have 50' cents for this Association, 

 50 cents for the National, and 50 cents 



