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in that line alone. I have sent back 

 to our membership within a very few 

 pennies per .member, in actual cost, 

 their dues in printed material this 

 year, and still I am handicapped. We 

 have our President's address which 

 says, it is time now to do something; 

 not so much discussion, but get down 

 to business andi do. 



air. L. C. Root — I am perfectly de- 

 lighted with what the last speaker has 

 said: I agree with him fully in regard 

 to the importance and value of the 

 President's Address, but the thing I 

 am most pleased about is the refer- 

 ence to the necessity of organizing. 

 I have been, as some of you knoW: 

 interested in this Association for s 

 long time, particularly in the earlier 

 days, when it was the North Ameri- 

 can Bee-Keepers' Association, which, 

 you will agree with me, did some 

 good work, and I have been an advo- 

 cate of more thorough organization. 

 I believe I have felt it as much as any- 

 one in connection with the work, and 

 recently my idea was so strong in 

 regard to that, that I was influential 

 in organizing an association in Fair- 

 field County, in Connecticut, with the 

 thought in mind that it was one way 

 to strengthen our State organization. 

 I wish every county in the State of 

 Conecticut would form a county as- 

 sociation and work for the interests 

 of the State convention, then that 



^ our State convention should go to the 

 National with more people represent- 

 ing it than we have this time. It ap- 

 peared from what some of the speak- 

 ers said that the organizing of the 

 County convention would hinder rath- 

 er than strengthen the State organiza- 

 tion. For this reason I am special- 

 ly glad our friend made this strong 

 point. We need the County organi- 

 zations to work and strengthen the 

 State organization, and then throw 

 the force of the State organization to 

 this National Convention. I think we 

 ought to act. 



President York — I would like to 



" hear from Dr. Gates; I believe he can 

 say some things to us along more 



y lines than marketing the honey prod- 



" uct. We should strike out with the 

 intention of doing something. I thimk 

 this is I>r. Gates' opportunity to tell 

 us something we can do. - 



Dr. Gates — I have not planned any 

 remarks for this occasion, but during 



the last paper I couldn't help but think 

 of the work which is planned for Mas- 

 sachusetts. The outline of the Presi- 

 dent's address, the organization 

 scheme, is one which I have had in 

 mind for our iState. I have just been 

 talking with Mr. Stewart, and getting 

 a little information as • to the or- 

 ganization of New York State, and I 

 propose this winter, if possible, to or- 

 ganize an association in each of the 

 counties, or possilbly combine one or two 

 Counties of Massachusetts, and have 

 these local organizations tributary to 

 a State organization, and then, if pos- 

 sible, (and if it is considered advis- 

 able), have them a part or aflfiliated 

 with the National organization. I 

 think, perhaps, Massachusetts has had 

 less representation in the National, 

 than she should have. I know when 

 I was actively connected with the 

 Worchester County Society, the ques- 

 tion of joining the National came up, 

 and, if I may. be so frank as to state, 

 the vote was against joining the Na- 

 tional, because that local organization 

 at that time couldn't see any benefit 

 coming from the National, and I think 

 possibly they were in a. measure justi- 

 fied; but the point is, they should not 

 gain that idea; there should be no oc- 

 casion for it; they should feel rather 

 that they could not afford to do with- 

 out membership in the National, and 

 if some scheme as has been suggested 

 tonight were brought forward, I would 

 be very pleased to see it in working 

 order. 



President York — I don't want to say 

 much more myself, but there are some 

 I "vvould like to hear from. I think 

 Mr. Byer could tell us something 

 about the organization work in Can- 

 ada, in a very few words. 

 . Mr. Byer — Mr. Pettitt will be more 

 able to do that. 



Mr. Merely Pettit — I was just think- 

 ing, as has been said, that our Presi- 

 dent's address is really the most im- 

 portant subject that we have up for 

 consideration tonight. We all under- 

 stand pretty well about the producing 

 of comb honey, and extracted honey, 

 and those things. It is now largely 

 a matter of selling. Mention has 

 been made of what has been done in 

 the Province of Ontario, Canada. I 

 just wanted to make a little correc- 

 tion in what our President said this 

 afternoon, something about Ontario 



