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"what do you want for it? What is it 

 worth?" He said, "I would take 6 

 cents a pound for it." The inspector 

 replied: "It is sold." So it was packed 

 shortly afterwards. This inspector 

 came around and loaded it on his 

 wagon, hauled it down to the village, 

 perhaps half a mile or a mile dis- 

 tant, and sold it for 12 cents, right 

 where this individual bee-keeper could 

 have just as well gone and got a miar- 

 ket for his honey, as to have feit he 

 was distressed by having a few hun- 

 dred pounds of honey which he didn't 

 know what to do with. If I have 

 made any mistajke about the facts in 

 this case, I appeal to Mr. Stevens. 



Mr. Davis — I will qualify the re- 

 marks I made, relative to the indi- 

 vidual. I inferred from the tenor of 

 Mr: Hershiser's remarks that he 

 thought we could do better scrap- 

 ping, each one for himself. 



Mr. Hershiser — No, I didn't think 

 that at all. 



Mr. France— To me, this paper is 

 worth deep consideration; it is the 

 paper of the Convention. We realize 

 all there is in it. The next question 

 is: Are we going to settle right back 

 and Jet a committee of three do it all? 

 They can't accomplish it. We are alL 

 part of the committee, and unless we 

 all do something, this organization 

 diifts as it is, and it is time we were 

 doing, not as we have done, and the 

 recommendations in the President's 

 address are well worthy of our con- 

 sideration. In fact, I think it is al- 

 most worth while to take them in 

 detail. Yet, if this organization is go- 

 ing to develop, and do things, and 

 grow, those things have got to come 

 under consideration, and that in the 

 near future. Bear with me if I take 

 an illustration on the first proposition, 

 that the State associations should t>e 

 Ibranches of the larger, the Counties 

 branches of the State, and make it in 

 systematic shape. The illustration I 

 want to bring before you is this: I 

 was called from home away down 

 here to your State to attend your 

 State and County conventions at the 

 expense of the state; I just got home 

 when I was called right hack to Penn- 

 sylvania. Look at the extra car fare. 

 I said: "I won't do that again." It was 

 because there had not been an un- 

 derstanding beforehand. If we need 

 outside help to make these meetings 



a success, if we put it in systematic 

 shape, that can be avoided. For in- 

 stance, if you want an outside party 

 to go to these varied places, make 

 your meetings immediately following 

 one another, so that that party can 

 travel from one to the other. Then, 

 again, several of the State Fairs are 

 looking for the some one of authority, 

 as judge; one who is capable; and 

 how quickly would they accept and 

 appreciate recommendations from a 

 National organization! In our State 

 every County Fair looks to the State 

 Horticultural Society to recommend a 

 horticulturist for judge, and he must 

 be a member of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Why couldn't that apply to 

 the bee-business? If we want laws, 

 it is co-operation that gets them. 

 Therefore this same question of sys- 

 tem comes in again. The National 

 has done something, but the work is 

 just begun. Our dues in the Nation- 

 al Association are not such as to place 

 us in a position in which we can do 

 these things. I am censured sorely 

 for not doing more, when I have noth- 

 ing to do it with. I must kee'p with- 

 in the limits of what the treasury con- 

 tains, and not do as I did the first 

 year as State Inspector, and use up 

 the little amount that was allowed 

 me, and go into my own pockets some 

 $40. T^he State shook their heads 

 and said. "No, you can't have that, 

 only what the State has allowed." 

 And so with the National, we must 

 not expend more than is in the treas- 

 ury. Last year, at the close of the 

 financial year, we had $509.00, and to- 

 day we have $533.00 and all debts 

 paid up. Now, I can't do much un- 

 der these conditions. Many of the 

 State^ Associations find, where we are 

 collecting dues of one dollar, saving 

 one-half of that dollar for the State 

 Association and one-half for the Na- 

 tional, that they can't exist, and can't 

 keep on doing good on 50 cents. I 

 believe it is four States already that 

 have decided they must change their 

 dues, and have the dues to the State 

 Association one dollar; and then the 

 National stands 'back and) says, "Well, 

 we will take a half of a dollar more 

 to carry out the National work." I 

 leave it for your consideration, that 

 If we are going to do something we 

 must have something to do it with. I 

 have heen curtailed as to the amount 

 of printed material I could send out 





