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EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



1907. 



Nov. 20. By expense of dele- 

 gates for programme 



for meeting 28.20 



1908. 



Nov. 18. By J. Q. Smith and 

 assistants for inspec- 

 tion 461.89 



Nov. 18. By expense connect- 

 ed with publishing 

 report ..::,;.. 210.57 



Nov. 18. By expense of con- . ' 

 ducting handling live 

 bees at fair 58.50 



Nov. 18. To balance $1,351 . 44- 



President Smith appointed the Aud- 

 iting Committee as follows: Dr. C.^ C. 

 Miller, A. L. Kildow and Geo. W. York. 



Mr. President: Any unfinished busi- 

 ness? 



Secretary Stone: Mr. President, you 

 haven't called on the Secretary for 

 his report. 



Mr. President: Tou may read your 

 report. 



: Secretary's Report. 



After our last meeting we sent out 

 blanks soliciting members to one thou- 

 sand bee-keepers. Some of them were 

 laid aside and have come straggling 

 in at times all through the year — some 

 of them too late to be named in the re- 

 port. 



We wish to urge the necessity of 

 bee-keepers looking after this matter. 



Last year a party who had let his 

 dues lapse in the National had a law- 

 suit caused by his bees stinging his 

 neighbor's horses to death, and when 

 he sought help from the National found 

 his dues had lapsed several months — 

 so he got no assistance. 



Many bee-keepers do not understand 

 that a membership in the National pro- 

 tects them against a spiteful neighbor 

 to one-half the expense of the law- 

 suit that is sometimes brought against 

 them. 



Send in your fees as soon as you can 

 after the receipt of the blanks, and 

 further neglect ends. 



Something ought to be done further 

 to encourage the affiliation of other 

 societies, as was voted in our conven- 

 tion Nov. 15, 1904, to change Section 1, 

 Article HI. of the Constitution so as 

 to allow them to come in as a whole" 

 on pajmient of an aggregate fee of 25c 

 per member. 



We would recommend as the Chi- 

 cago Northwestern is so scattered in 



the different States and refuses to 

 come into our Association (and for 

 good reasons, as some of the members 

 from- other States say, "Why not 

 affiliate in our State?") that this State 

 Association offer to receive the mem- 

 bers of the Chicago Northwestern so 

 far as they belong in this State, and 

 that we send a delegate to the conven- 

 tion in December to secure their mem- 

 bership thus far. 



We had 500 copies of our sixth an- 

 nual report printed, 400 in cloth, so as 

 to have extra copies to place in the 

 hands of each of the legislators, and 

 for that reason we solicited the letters 

 regarding the needs of a foul brood 

 law. These letters will go into the 

 hands of all the members of the next 

 . General Assembly. 



We had these letters in the last re- 

 port for the reason that our reports are 

 delayed so long waiting for the mem- 

 bers to come into the Association that 

 they are hardly in print till the legis- 

 lature is ready to adjourn. 



We asked the State Board of Agri- 

 culture to give us a premium for hand- 

 ling bees at the fair, which they did, 

 and we had Mr. Douis Werner at it 

 every day of the fair when it was 

 not too cold. 



Mr. President: Tou have heard the 

 Secretary's report. 



Mr. Geo. W. York: I move the re- 

 port be accepted and placed on file. 



Mr. President: Motion carried and 

 report of Secretary placed on file. 



Mr. A. L. Kildow: The Legislature 

 wants this report out so they can see 

 it. We ought to get this foul brood law ' 

 through if we can. We ought not to 

 leave anything undone. If they want 

 this report out we ought to get it out, 

 let the members come when they will, 

 we need this law and ought to do all 

 we can to get it. 



Mr, Stone: These letters are in this 

 last year's report. 



Mr. A. L. Kildow: That is a year 

 behind. 



Mr. Stone: What I said in regard 

 to the foul brood letters was, they 

 were sent out last year after our con- 

 vention, and we have four hundred 

 reports in cloth binding so the legis- 

 lators could have them. We got the 

 appropriation but we haven't the law. 



Mr. Lee: We would like to have 

 this law this year if we can. 



Mr. York: Mr. President, I make 

 a motion that a delegate be elected to 



