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SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Mr. Dadant: "As a member of the 

 committee I notice that the badge re- 

 ferred to cost $50 and this year cost 

 $11. The original cost of the queen 

 bee on the metal was the greatest ex- 

 pense and I think they ought not to be 

 thrown away. I suggest that one of the 

 ribbons be cut out and by making this 

 change it will make a very nice badge 

 for several years and it would be fool- 

 ish to spend so much money again on 

 badges. To pay ten or fifteen dollars 

 a year for badges out of an income of 

 less than a hundred dollars is too much 

 of a tax. For that reason I am in favor 

 of economizing and using the old 

 badges." 



Mr. Stone: "Another matter I wish 

 to mention is the attendance of a mem- 

 ber of one of the affiliated societies at 

 this meeting. I suggest that he be al- 

 lowed to come in as a member and that 

 his railroad fare be paid, as a delegate 

 to this convention. If there is anything 

 to induce affiliated societies to do so, 

 they will send a member to these meet- 

 ings." 



Mr. Baxter: "I move that such mem- 

 bers of other societies as are here be 

 received in that way and have the priv- 

 ileges of members of this association." 



Which motion was approved and Mr. 

 G. W. Cave, a delegate from the West- 

 ern Illinois Society, was so received. 



Mr. Dadant: "I would like to ask for 

 a renort of the committee on legisla- 

 tion." 



Mr. Stone: "As first steps in that di- 

 rection we got a stenographer to make 

 copies of bills to be introduced in the 

 house and senate — three bills. In the 

 senate they were introduced by Sena- 

 tor Berry .in the house by Representa- 

 tive Heinl. We had not had the bills in 

 long until we found that they were op- 

 posed to the spraying bill. Senator 

 Dunlap, president of the State Horticul- 

 tural Society, was chairman of the 

 committee to which it was referred in 

 the senate so our bill came before him." 



Mr. Baxter: "Dunlap is not presi- 

 dent of the State Horticultural society." 

 Mr. Stone: "Perhaps he is not now, 

 but he has been, and yat any rate he 

 was opposed to spraying, and our bill 

 came before his comiiiittee. And Mr. 

 ,Heinl, who had intro(^uced our bill in 

 \the house, was a friend of Senator Dun- 

 lap and ^ had said h^ would not offer 

 ■the bill unless Dunlat) was favorable to 

 it. . > • - 1 



We went ito see Senator Dunlap. He 

 had a letter from a man in the north- 



ern part of the state, who said in the 

 letter that he was representing a large 

 business — was a representative man. 

 etc. — the chairman of our committee 

 guessed who the letter was from. Dun- 

 lap was surprised that he could name 

 the man. He said he had no use for a 

 foul brood law. 



We sent letters to some of the mem- 

 bers of the Association before the time 

 for the meeting of the committee the 

 next week. When we saw him again 

 Senator Dunlap said the letter would 

 not be read. 



Mr. Heinl of the house made some 

 objections to our bills. He said our re- 

 ports were too large and that we paid 

 too much for them. 



I said we have no more printed than 

 enough to supply the demand. 



He said we ought to get them out 

 sooner. 



We can get them out no sooner as 

 we have to wait for members to join at 

 first of year. \ 



I tried to huryy them as much as 

 possible, and did get the report from the 

 printer on the very day that the legis- 

 lature adjourned. 



The foul brood bill went through the 

 senate and to third reading in the house 

 where they demanded a roll call and 

 it was defeated on roll call. It lacked 

 only four votes of getting through on 

 third reading. 



The appropriation bill had in it the 

 same things as two years before. That 

 went through both houses all right. 



They said we would not be allowed to 

 name the foul brood inspector. 



The foul brood bill passed the senate 

 without any trouble and was taken 

 over to the house." 



Mr. Baxter: I was anxious to see 

 those bills become laws and I went to 

 Champaign and saw Profs. Davenport, 

 Burrill and Forbes, whom I have known 

 for a number of years and they prom- 

 ised to help us pass these bills. Sen- 

 ator Dunlap had said that he would 

 never pass the spraying bill, that it 

 would be a detriment to the orchardists 

 of the state. I went to our representa- 

 tives — and said to Senator Berry that I 

 hoped he would do all he could. 



Mr. Dadant "With all due respect 

 for the professors whose names have 

 been mentioned, I would say that they 

 know many other things, but they do 

 not know much about bees. 



"There was ,no evidence to show 



much suffering from spraying. The 



fburden of proof, however, must be with 



