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another dollar for this advertising 

 campaign. It seems to me it ought 

 to be worth $5' a year to every bee- 

 keeper to belong to the Association. 



Mr. Snyder — ^I think without a very 

 large campaign it would have very 

 little effect. A campaign was made 

 amongst the bee-keepers in our State 

 to join our Association, and in re- 

 sponse to 5,000 letters which were 

 sent out, to the best of my knowl- 

 edge we received seven applications. 

 That is not a very large return, and 

 they were all bee-keepers, too. If a 

 bee-keeper can't see the value of the 

 Association, it will, I think, take an 

 awful lot of capital in advertising to 

 make any impression on the public. 

 There was something said about the 

 Corn Products Company. There 

 are millions of dollars spent by that 

 organization for advertising, and nat- 

 urally we can't sell honey as cheaply 

 as they can sell corn products. Seven- 

 ty-five per cent of the people use 

 those corn products; and when we 

 speak of the corn products and the 

 advertising they do, and what we 

 should do, there is no comparison at 

 all. 



Mr. Davenport — The object of re- 

 ferring this matter to the committee, 

 and in making the motion, was not 

 to instruct the committee that they 

 should adopt all the features suggested 

 by Mr. Root, but rather that they 

 should consider those points and see 

 if they could not combine them with 

 their own propositions, and formulate 

 a plan for the re-arrangement or 

 amendment of the constitution that 

 would cover the ground we want to 

 cover for the disposition of the honey 

 crop. It seems to me it is a very 

 proper thing that they should meet 

 together and take into consideration 

 the points presented in Mr. Root's 

 paper. 



Pres. York — It seems to me that all 

 such matters as look to the advance- 

 ment of the Association should be re- 

 ferred to this committee, because 

 they are going to act on the various 

 propositions and put them up to the 

 Board of Directors, who have control 

 of tlie funds. They have absolute 

 control of the fund's; nothing can be 

 spent without the consent of the 

 Board of Directors. 



The President put the motion, that 

 Mr. Root's paper be referred to the 



committee of three for consid'eration, 

 which, on a "vote having been taken; 

 was declared carried. 



Pres. York — There was one paper 

 passed over for the reason that it 

 was not here. It has come this 

 morning. It is "Co-operation Among 

 Bee-Keepers — Advantages and Pro- 

 cedure," by Frank Rauchfuss, of 

 'Denver, Colorado. I will ask Mr. 

 France to read the paper. 



Mr. France read the paper as fol- 

 lows : 



IS CO-OPERATION NEEDED 

 AMONG BEE-KEEPERS. 



To answer this question we will 

 take a copy of the American Bee 

 Journal of Oct. 2, 1887, wherein we 

 find the following market quotations 

 on comb honey: 



R. A. Burnett, Chicago, white comb 

 1-lb sections, 18 to 20c; McCaul & 

 Hildreth Bros., New York, fancy white 

 17 to 19c; Clemmons, Cloon & Co., 

 Kansas City, choice white 1-lb, 20c; 

 C. F. Muth & Son, Cincinnati, say, 

 "We think choice white comb would 

 bring 18 to 20 cents in a jobbing way." 



Now what do we find in the same 

 "old reliable" American Bee Journal 

 in the way of market reports, 23 years 

 later, by the same firms or their suc- 

 cessors? 



R. A. Burnett & Co., Chicago, fancy 

 comb, 17c; Hildreth & Segelken, New 

 York, fancy white 15 to 16c; C. C. 

 Clemmons, Kansas City, No. 1 white, 

 $3.50 per case, (which is equivalent 

 to 16% per pound); Fred W. Muth 

 Co., Concinnati, fancy comb 16 to 16% 

 cents. 



Now does not this comparison speak 

 volumes ? 



The year 1887 was a year of light 

 crop, but it cannot be contradicted 

 that the honey crop of the United 

 States for 1910 was also a poor one. 



Now let us take up - a few of the 

 most important articles of bee-sup- 

 plies used: 



(Prices from American Bee Journal of 

 Oct. 12, 1S87): each 



One Story 10-Frame Bee-Hives, 



K. D $ .90 



Brood-I'm.mes, per 1000 12 . 00 



4V4 One-Piece Sections, per 1000.. 4.00 

 Shipping- Cases, without glass, 50. 6.00 

 Thin Surplus Foundation, 100 

 pounds _.. 47.00 



(Present prices for the same arti- 

 cles, from Root's 1910 catalog:) 



