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NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



we should postpone this election until 

 tomorrow imornirig. I move that we 

 reconsider the action of the convention 

 in taking tMs vote at this time. 



Mr. York — I second the motion. 



The motion was' carried, to reconsider. 



Mr. Bowen — ^I move that we fix the 

 time of putting- in our ballots the first 

 thing in the morning, at the opening 

 session. 



Mr. York — ^I>on't you think it would 

 be a good idea to have a Nominating 

 Committee, and have this committee 

 select for nomination, a foul brood in- 

 spector and the officers of this con- 

 vention; say, ihave a committee of five, 

 to report at ten o'clock tomorrow 

 morning? 



Mr. Bowen — ^I am opposed to that. 

 It looks to me like a wheel within a 

 wheel. Take the names and consider 

 the location, and if we want to know 

 about them, we can ask Mr. Stone; he 

 knows all of them, and we can hand in 

 an intelligent ballot. 



Mr. Dadant — I object to any Nomi- 

 nation Commi'ttee, especially for in- 

 spector. 



President Kildow — ^You have heard 

 the motion to fix our ballots and put 

 them in at the opening session. Ail in 

 favor, etc. 



The motion was put, and carried. 



Mr. York — I move that we adjourn 

 until 7:30 this evening. 



The motion was put, and carried. 



EVENING SESSION. 



The convention met at 7:30 p. m., 

 with President Kildow in the chair. 



Mr. Stone — Dr. Bohrer made a state- 

 ment about the study of bee-keeping 

 getting into the universities. I just 

 want to say a little on that. We have 

 'been called upon for our reports, to go 

 to the different libraries; one at Al- 

 bany, N. Y., has asked for our reports, 

 and one at Washingtan, and several 

 others; I can't name them all. Last 

 week I got a request from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, at Urbana, for the 

 reports; they asked for all the num- 

 bers, and it was tha.t I spoke of in my 

 report this morning. In looking up the 

 matter. I thought I was going to fail 

 to find a copy of the Third Annual 

 Report, but I finally found a bundle. 

 In the letter that I received from the 

 librarian at Champaign, or Urbana, 



Ills., he says: "Enter our request on 

 your mailing list for all copies that are 

 issued hereafter, and send us all you 

 can; all you have on hand. They will 

 be very fine for the graduating class, 

 in their research for literature along 

 that line." He spoke of their being 

 very valuable. That shows they are 

 beginning to investigate things along 

 this line, as well as others. 



Mr. York — ^I was at Columbus, Ohio, 

 last July, on the State University 

 grounds, and I found there about 

 thirty colonies of ibees. So they are 

 making a study of bee-culture there, 

 also. During the winter course, a 

 short course in agriculture, they have a 

 lecturer come to talk to the students, 

 giving them several lectures during the 

 winter on bees and bee-keeping. It 

 seems they are getting interested at 

 our own University at Urbana. I 

 think it is about time our own State 

 University is getting busy. 



Dr. Bohrer — They are also getting 

 busy in Kansas, too. 



Mr. Dadant — ^We are still on the 

 question of the growth of our Asso- 

 ciaton. I guess I am probably one of 

 those who came to the first meetings 

 that were held here. For four, five or 

 six years it was almost impossible to 

 get more than half a dozen bee-keep- 

 ers to come. I came here when there 

 were only four people. Mr. Stone, I 

 think, was one of the men who was 

 here. I think there are only three or 

 four of us here now that came then. 

 If it had not been for Colonel Mills, 

 I don't know whether we would have 

 grown much. Colonel Mills suggested 

 to us that the only way for an associa- 

 tion to become permanent was to or- 

 ganize — to be incorporated, and to get 

 a charter, and he joined us; he put his 

 own name on the list; he never was a 

 bee-keeper. He joined us simply to 

 •help us incorporate. He said then we 

 would be a body, and that then we 

 oould do something; that the only way 

 to accomplish things was in organiza- 

 tion; that we could then petition the 

 Legislature. And you see we have 

 grown, and I don't think we will ever 

 go ibackward. I think our future is 

 as much toward growth as our past is 

 from nothing. 



Mr. Stone — ^I have passed the years 

 of anxiety. I used to be anxious all 

 the time. 



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