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EIGHTH ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE 



Joining the National — Election. 



Dr. Miller: I move that this Asso- 

 ciation join the National Association 

 in a body, the same as last year. 



Mr. Baxter: Except those that are 

 already members of the National. 



The motion was seconded, put and 

 carried. 



The election of officers was then 

 taken up, and all were re-elected for 

 the ensuing year as follows: 



President, George W. York, of Chi- 

 cago. 



Vice President, Miss Emma M. Wil- 

 son, of Marengo, 111. 



Secretary-Treasurer, Herman F. 

 Moore, of Park Ridge, 111. 



Mr. York was elected as delegate to 

 the State convention. 



Mr. Kannenberg: I believe we al- 

 ways vote Secretary Moore an allow- 

 ance for the year for what, he has 

 done- for us, I move that we allow 

 him $20.00 for his services for the last 

 year. 



The motion was seconded. 



Mr. Moore: I stated that I would 

 not accept any compensation for the 

 last year, owing to the condition of the 

 treasury. 



Mr. Horstmann: I am willing to give 

 my share toward paying it, for I don't 

 believe in running the Association into 

 debt. Let the bee-keepers pay up 

 well this year, and we will come out 

 all right. 



The motion was put and carried. 

 Oldest Bee- Keeper. 



"Who is the oldest bee-keeper pres- 

 ent?" 



President York: I take it that this 

 question means who has handled bees 

 for the longest time. 



Dr. Bohrer: There is one other 

 gentleman who has handled bees long- 

 er than I have, which is fifty years, 

 and that is Mr. Baldridge. Mr. Bald- 

 rldge and I were in the first conven- 

 tion at Indianapolis. I know of no 

 one else. 



President York: Mr. Baldridge, how 

 many years? 



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Mr. Baldridge: Fifty-three. 



Mr. Stuebing: I have taken care of 

 bees for sixty-two years. When I was 

 eight years old I came over here to 

 America and I bought three colonies 

 of Mr. Williams. 



Dr. Miller: I commenced keeping 

 bees sixty-nine years ago. I had a 

 colony of bumble-bees. Then I took a 

 long vacation, and you can't fairly 

 count me with the older ones. 



Medicinal Qualities of Honey. 



"What medicinal properties of honey 

 will help its .sale most if they are 

 known?" 



Mr. Holbrook: I should be glad to 

 have the Secretary read an extract 

 from a marked article by C. W. Day- 

 ton in the. Bee-Keepers' Review, in 

 answer to this question. 



The Secretary then read as follows: 



"If, on rising in the morning, we 

 work or exercise for three or four 

 hours without breakfast, we may feel 

 a somewhat painful emptiness In the 

 stomach. If we pay no attention to it, 

 after two or three hours a slight head- 

 ache, toothache, backache, rheumatism^ 

 or any other ailment which we have 

 been troubled with, will start up. This 

 is the certain evidence of diseased 

 digestive organs. The cause of the 

 disagreeableness is mucus mixed with 

 secretions from the diseased digestive 

 organs during the preceding night, 

 which form a very injurious ferment. 

 If we eat breakfast it will stop the 

 gnawing sensation in the stomach, and 

 the food will absorb the contaminable 

 substance, but only a small part of the 

 food can digest. Undigested, it will 

 contaminate the whole system, and 

 excite to activity any old disease by 

 which we may have been previously 

 attacked. 



"Take a small bowl of water at a 

 temperature of 50 or 60 degrees. Stir 

 into it three tablespoonfuls of evapor- 

 ated milk or six of Jersey cow's milk 

 and a quantity of mild-flavored honey 

 the size of a walnut. Sip with a tea- 

 spoon. Don't think that if a little 

 milk is beneficial more is better. The 

 efficiency . of this mixture depends 

 upon withholding the milk. More milk 

 will cause it to be digested. Being 

 neither food nor drink it will quickly 

 find its way through the digestive or- 

 gans. Honey contains nutrition and 

 imparts strength, but, being already 

 digested, it excites no digestive activity. 

 Pure water would be absorbed into the 

 vascular circulation through the walls 

 of the stomach if the system were 

 lacking moisture. Milk cannot be di- 

 gested in the stomach, nor can honey 

 be handled in the intestines. The de- 



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