ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS ASSOCIATION 



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you seem to have shall be taken away. 

 Some seem to think that the mere fact 

 that you are a member is going to give you 

 an advantage in the market for supplies 

 that others have not. If you have that 

 kind of a bee in your hat, get it out 

 quickly, for nothing is further from the 

 facts. No can company or supply dealer 

 cares one cent how many spcieties you 

 belong to; all he cares is how many 

 cans you want and your ability to pay 

 for them. I know that something to 

 rather disprove this last assertion has 

 been sent to members, yet I am willing 

 to stand by it, for there are facts to 

 back it up. 



be helped is by furnishing them informa- 

 tion as to reliability of commission men 

 and dealers in the cities. One corre- 

 spondent at each distributing center 

 could easily do this, and save much loss 

 and trouble. With fair knowledge as to 

 amount of honey produced each year, 

 and a knowledge as to whom to deal 

 with, producers can stand some show 

 of getting reasonable prices. 



C. A. Hatch. 



The following paper, by Mr. R. F. 

 Holtermann, of Brantford, Ont., was 

 received too late to be read at the Con- 

 vention. 



Secretary Jas. A. Gbeen. 



If you and your neighbors can jointly 

 use a carload of supplies of any kind, 

 then, and then only, can you demand re- 

 duction from the dealer ; and you are 

 working against your own interest if 

 you do not avail yourselves of the dis- 

 count on price and saving on freight- 

 rates. If you think some supply dealer 

 is building up a trust, deal with some 

 other one; there are plenty of factories 

 in this broad land of ours, and the sup- 

 ply dealer can not live without patron- 

 age; on the other hand, neither can we 

 as producers get along without supply 

 dealers. Do not let us waste strength 

 kicking one another, for each is de- 

 pendent on the other. 



Another way in which members can 



THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 

 RIPENING NECTAR IN THE 

 HIVE AND EVAPORAT- 

 ING IT ARTIFICIALLY 



The subject which has been assigned 

 to me has, I am sure, much about it 

 as yet unknown, and yet probably of 

 much practical value to the bee-keeper 

 in making him put a better article upon 

 the market, and assisting him in the 

 sale of it; and to the consumer in 

 showing him wherein lies, in part at 

 least, the superiority of honey to all 

 other sweets, fats and starchy products, 

 as a food. 



The apiarian body will contradict it- 

 self in file value of honey as long as 



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