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ship their bees up North when there 

 is a honey flow on, but we expect to 

 buy from them. Now these rates can 

 be obtained if some one — the leading 

 officers of this Association — are empow- 

 ered, and will go at it with energy. I 

 think we should not rest until we get it. 



Mr. Holekamp — The work which Mr. 

 France did before the Western Classi- 

 fication Committee was satisfactory as 

 far as extracted honey goes; but there 

 are these different committees, because 

 extracted honey bears the same identi- 

 fication all over the country, while the 

 Western Classification is 4th and 2nd 

 class; therefore it seems necessary that 

 these different Classification Commit- 

 tees ought to be interviewed wherever 

 their headquarters are, and it ought to 

 be handled through their headquarters. 



Mr. Victor — I had a little experience 

 in shipping bees to Colorado. ~ They 

 charged me $200 per car from Whar- 

 ton, Tex., to Colorado; the distance we 

 can travel in 36 hours on a passenger 

 train. While we are paying two or 

 three times as much as cattle, the cat- 

 tle have more attention than the bees, 

 unless we instruct that they be treated 

 right. We only get one transportation 

 while with cattle we get two. I wanted 

 to experiment along the line and take 

 care of some honey in the summer and 

 ship them back in the winter and in- 

 crease them, but the rates were so high 

 I could not think of it at all. . We Texas 

 bee-keepers sometimes have a good 

 many bees to spare; we can look ahead 

 and see if our seasons are not going 

 to be very good, and if the rates were 

 not so high I think we couid ship bees 

 from Texas to other points to quite an 

 advantage, and I believe if the rail- 

 road companies would take this matter 

 under consideration it would be easy 

 for them to see that by giving us a 

 lower rate on bees, they would have 

 more to handle, which would more than 

 over-pay the difference on the present 

 rate. 



Pres. Dadant — We should go ahead 

 and try to get a better rate, as this 

 matter is of great importance to us. 

 We ought to have a committee all the 

 time interviewing those Classification 

 Committees, so as to get matters re- 

 duced; and I believe we ought to re- 

 quire this Association to name the men 

 who are to serve on this Committee. 

 I believe also that the Board of Direc- 

 tors will willingly grant the sufficient 



amount to pay for the expenses of the 

 men who will interview those Asso- 

 ciations. This matter is of importance 

 to the bee-keepers. 



J. Q. Smith— I think that that Com- 

 mittee ought to find out from the rail- 

 roads what sized package would be ac- 

 ceptable to them, and have a satisfac- 

 tory box, certain weight, and enclosed 

 in a certain way, that would be ac- 

 ceptable to the railroad companies to 

 handle. Now, in car-lots there is not 

 so much danger, but in small pack- 

 ages is where the trouble comes in. 



Mr. Kimmey — I wish to re-state that 

 my motion was that this matter be re- 

 ferred to the Committee on Resolu- 

 tions". This slip was handed to me; it 

 reads, "Ship your honey in proper pack- 

 ages," and the man who handed it to 

 me said, "I have handled it in small 

 packages, and I have carried the pack- 

 age in my arms on account of the small 

 packages getting broken." It is the duty 

 of this committee to advise us what 

 kind of package to use. 



Pres. Dadant — It will save time to 

 refer to the Committee on Resolutions, 

 because they can discuss it and present 

 it to us later. 



The resolution was adopted. 



ADVERTISING TO SELL OR TO BUY HONEY. 



"Which would be the better way to 

 advertise honey, in a bee-paper that 

 bee-keepers read, or in a public news- 

 paper that thousands of people read?" 



Mr. Werner — I asked that question. 

 I have advertised honey for sale, in 

 bee-papers, and not gotten as much as 

 a postal card; and then I have adver- 

 tised in the St. Louis Post-Despatch 

 and sold as much as 3,000 pounds of 

 honey. 



J. F. Teel — If I were going to try to 

 buy a whole crop I might advertise 

 in a bee-paper; but if I want to sell it 

 out in local lots -I prefer the news- 

 paper. I have found the Dallas News 

 to be the best medium to sell through, 

 and I "have sold something like 3,000 

 pounds from one advertisement. 



Mr. York — I think it depends a great 

 deal upon the class of people. If you 

 want to sell to consumers, advertise in 

 the newspapers; if to the dealers, ad- 

 vertise in the bee-papers. 



ANY PROGRESS IN NON-SWARMING BEES? 



"Has there been any progress made 

 in the past ten years towards securing 

 a non-swarming strain of bees?" 



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