



64 



TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Second Day — Morning Session. -^ 



At 9 a. m. iPres. Bowen took the 

 chair, and, having aslted the Conven- 

 tion to come to order, called for re- 

 port of Auditing Committee. 



Mr. York — We are not able to agree 

 exactly. We cannot figure it out and 

 make a balanced report; your Auditing 

 Committee are going to ask you this 

 morning to permit them, after the close 

 of the Convention, to straighten it 

 out, and have the report adopted in the 

 proceedings if they can get it so as 

 to be so reported. There is a slight 

 difference in the figures. 



We will remain this afternoon and 

 will try to get it straightened out; if 

 you will pass some kind of action per- 

 'mitting us to make complete the re- 

 port after the close of the Convention. 



It was moved, seconded and carried 

 that the Auditing Committee be per- 

 mitted to complete their report after 

 the close of the Convention, and have 

 it appear in the proceedings of this 

 meeting. 



Exhibits and Judging at Fairs. 



Mr. Stone — There is one matter, 

 whether it is important or not; the 

 different States are adopting our Code 

 of Rules for judging honey at the fairs, 

 and there is one item in it: 



"By style is meant neatness of the 

 sections, freedom from propolis, etc. 

 Under this head may also be consid- 

 ered the size of the section. The 4%x 

 4%, being the standard, should take 

 the preference over all others, and 1% 

 to 2 inches in width over narrow ones." 



I recommend that that latter clause 

 be stricken out. There should have 

 been a committee appointed to look over 

 the whole thing, because we know that 

 the section is 1% to 2 inches. 



Mr. Coppin — I think it ought to be 

 scratched out entirely. That would 

 not give room for any improvements 

 in regard to size of the section; you 

 might as well keep quiet if you saw 

 room for improvement, because it 

 would be ruled out by the fair any- 

 way. 



Mr. Moore — I don't think the size 

 of the section should cut any figure 

 at all in governing. 



;Mr. Kildow — I think the section bus- 

 iness ought to be cut out. 



Pres. Bowen — I think the 4%x4i4 is 

 the best yet; every one does not think 



so. I think every one should have such 

 a size section as he thinks in his own 

 mind should be used, and I don't think 

 we ought to be handicapped by. any 

 such ruling as that. I never use any- 

 thing but a 4x4% section; that would 

 bar me out the same as those who use 

 4x5. 



Mr. York — I move that that p^t of 

 the rule be stricken out. 



Ruling was so made and carried. 



Mr. York — I was the judge of a 

 honey exhibit at the last Illinois State 

 Fair, and I noticed they did not use 

 those rules at all; I wonder why it 

 was. Heretofore the Superintendent 

 furnished me with a set of rules, 

 poipts, etc., to judge by. 



Mr. Stone — It is because we didn't 

 bind them to it. 



Mr. Kluck — I would like to ask Mr. 

 York, did you rule out the other size 

 sections? 



Mr, York — I never saw any rules at 

 all. They said to go ahead and do 

 what I think, is best, and I did. I 

 guess everybody was satisfied, but I 

 don't know. 



I>r. Bohrer — It has been my lot to be 

 judge at two State Fairs for about four 

 years in Kansas, at Hutchinson and To- 

 peka. We have two rival organizations 

 there. 'That question never comes up 

 there at all, and I don't know whether 

 I would feel like inspecting by a rule 

 of that kind. I know there are some 

 other rules that have been detrimental, 

 and that I have respected because they 

 made their entries. 



I remember one instance in the mat- 

 ter of preparing beeswax; one man 

 had made a Teddy Bear in beeswax, 

 and they allowed him to enter it. I 

 said, "There is no skill about that; it 

 is simply a ready-made toy of bees- 

 wax." I said, "How did they allow 

 you .to enter it?" "But as long as they 

 did, we have got to consider it." 



They had the finest exhibit I about 

 ever have seen anywhere at Hutchin- 

 son this year, and it was put up in 

 sections like that (illustrating). I 

 believe that is the Danzenbaker sec- 

 tion. 



Mr. Moore — That is a little nar- 

 rower. 



Dr. Bohrer — The 4%x4% section was 

 the size of a majority there. 



Pres. Bowen — It is everywhere, so 

 far as that goes. 



Dr. Bohrer — That question was never 



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