ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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-OF THE- 



Sixteenth Annual Session 



-OF THE- 



Illinois Stste Bee-Keepers' Mssocimtioh 



Held in the Supreme Coxstt Room at the State House, 



ON 



TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20 and 21, 1906 



Tuesday morning, President Smith 

 said: "Members of the Association, I 

 have to congratulate you that we have 

 been permitted to meet again, in our 

 sixteenth annual session. While the 

 year just past has been one of disap- 

 pointment to bee-keepers, we all look 

 forward to the coming year with hopes 

 that it may be a year of plenty and 

 success. I have met more bee-keepers 

 this year in the State of Illinois than 

 in any other year. They all seem en- 

 couraged in regard to wiping out foul 

 brood, wherever it has been known 

 to exist. As to black brood, I have 

 not seen it. Not having learned any 

 difference I call it all foul brood. Be- 

 ing doubtful about it, I sent a sample 

 of it to Washington and it was pro- 

 nounced, not black, but common foul 

 brood, as I had thought. While our 

 neighboring States — Michigan, Indiana 

 and Ohio — have it, it may develop with- 

 in our territory, sooner or later. 



I wish to thank you, gentlemen, for 

 courtesies in the past. We will now 

 proceed with the business of our an- 

 nual meeting. The Secretary will please 

 read the minutes of the last meeting." 



Secretary Stone said that the pro- 

 ceedings of the previous meeting all 

 had been published in the Annual Report, 

 and it seemed unnecessary to read the 

 minutes since they were already in the 

 hands of the members. 



Mr. Dadant moved that the printed 

 report -be accepted as the minutes of 



last meeting, which motion was sec- 

 onded, and, on being put by the Presi- 

 dent, was carried. 



The President called for the Secre- 

 tary's Report: 



Report of the Secretary." 



The Association expressed the wish 

 last year that along with the other 

 work of the Secretary he have printed 

 some cards to be used in an effort to 

 increase the membership. The first move 

 in this direction was to have prepared 

 some return postal cards and these were 

 sent to all the Crop Reporters through- 

 out the State. We received in this 

 way 1 130 names of bee-keepers. We 

 also secured another list containing 1186 

 names. After arranging the two lists 

 alphabetically, and comparing them, we 

 found only 94 duplicate names, and a 

 total of '2222 names. In all this num- 

 ber only 94 duplicate is an evidence of 

 thousands of bee-keepers still, whose 

 names we have not been able to get. 

 With 873 names received through the 

 Crop Reporters of the State after can- 

 celing duplicates, they reported 20,361 

 colonies of bees, which was an average 

 of 23 1-3 colonies per bee-keeper. 



Number of names reporting number 

 of colonies not known, were 163. In- 

 cluding the numbers recorded in our 5th 

 Annual Report as living in Illinois, with 

 the above-named numbers, we have a 

 list of over 2450 bee-keepers in Illinois, 

 and with an average of 23 colonies we 



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