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TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Massachusetts for illustration. I don't 

 think I am overstepping my right 

 when I say that the bee-disease in- 

 spection for iMassachusett® this year 

 was on a trial basis. The legisla- 

 ture put it on a trial hasis for one 

 j'^ear. This year it will come before 

 the legislature for reconsideration. 

 Now, I personally wish that the Na- 

 tional organization were so constituted, 

 were running in such a manner as to 

 be in a position to send out their ex- 

 perts to (Massachusetts and help us get 

 a favorable reconsideration of the Bee 

 Disease Law there. The whole of the 

 Southern United States has got to have 

 Bee Disease Laws considered, and' the 

 various iStates in the W^est and Middle 

 West must have their laws reconsid- 

 ered. All those things could be shaped, 

 handled, helped along and promoted by 

 the national Organization. I think 

 possibly that will make clear the rela- 

 tion which I intended to bring out be- 

 tween the National and the Federal 

 State Departments; but in compar- 

 ison with this society as it now 

 stands, with the conditions as they 

 exist in Europe, I want to make just 

 the remark which I made to one of 

 the officers last evening, if I recall 

 rightly, the 'National organization of 

 bee-keepers in Germany, which is a 

 small country, densely populated, but 

 has a membership which reaches 

 something like 85,000 to lOO'.OOO mem- 

 bers, and I think that the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association of this coun- 

 try has one and a half "thousand mem- 

 bers in comparison. It appears to me 

 to be decidedly evidenced that there 

 is something wrong with the machin- 

 ery which controls the National or- 

 ganization. 



Mr. Hershiser — As a member of this 

 committee, I want to make a few re- 

 marks. About six or seven years ago 

 we had perhaps two thousand mem- 

 bers, something like that, or a little 

 over; we have ' about four thousand 

 members now. But, instead of four 

 thousand memib^ers we ought to have 

 forty thousand, out of about three 

 hundred thousand bee-keepers in the 

 United States, and I think it is up to 

 every member of this association to 

 make an individual effort to get in a 

 few members. I have done so in the 

 past, anld sometimes they will stay a 

 year or two and then drop out, but 

 just before I came down here, a young 



man that keeps a few bees, expressed 

 the wish and intention of joining this 

 association. I explained to him how 

 good it was to belong to this associa- 

 tion; nothing but the most recent and 

 livest topics pertaining to bee-keep- 

 ing were discussed. Wlien this asso- 

 ciation meets it is discussing the burn- 

 ing questions of bee-keeping, and that 

 dollar they expend is the most produc- 

 tive dollar they can spend. It is a 

 very fine investment, because they get 

 the information for a dollar which . 

 they want right then and there. This 

 foul brood question, and everything 

 else of that kind has been discussed, 

 not so much at this meeting, but there 

 has been a surfeit of it in the past. 

 I think each member of the associa- 

 tion should try to get some members 

 in, and get more money and then it 

 wouW he easier for the association 

 to accomplish things. 



The matter of raising dues, or main- ; 

 taining the dues at one dollar each, 

 is one thing that will have to be 

 adopted in some form or other. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NOM- 

 INATIONS. 



The President called for the report 

 of the Committee on Nominations. 



Mr. Crane presented the report of 

 the committee, as follows: 



J. B- Crone, of Vermont, and E^ L. 

 Hoffman,, of Minnesota, were elected 

 president and secretary, respectively. 

 Charles Stewart, N. Y.. absent. 



The following nominations were 

 recommended: 



For President: Geo. "W York, Chi- 

 cago; M. V. Facey, Minn. e 



Vice-President: W. D. Wright, N. Y. 

 Thos. Chantry, Cal. 



Secretary, E. iB. Tyrell, Mich.; Dr. 

 B. N. Gates, Mass.; Louis Scholl, 

 Texas. 



Directors: Prof. H. A. Surface, Pa.; 

 J. A. Stone, 111.; A. Holekamp, Mo.; 

 Orel L. Hershiser, N. Y.; Frank Wil- - 

 cox. Wis.; W. P. Southworth, Iowa. 

 E. L. HOFFMAN, Sec. 



Mr. Davenport moved, seconded by 

 Mr. Stevens, that the report be adopt- ' 

 ed: 



The President put the motion, 

 which, on the vote having toeen taken, 

 was declared carried, unanimously. 



The President, as Mr. Byer asked 

 to be excused from the committee on 



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