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NINTH ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE 



Mr. Becker — I would make it "de- 

 sign or designs." 



Mr. Pyles — If you take twenty horses 

 to the lair, and there is only one pre- 

 imiumi the best horse will get it. So 

 will the best design get it. 



Mr. York — I was trying to think 

 back to the last judging I did here at 

 the State Fair. It seems to me Mr. 

 ■ Stone Ihad two designs in beeswax. 

 One was a fence around an exhibit — 

 gas pipe fence — and the other one was 

 Uncle Sam chained to a saloon. It 

 does not seem to me I would give Mr. 

 Stone two premiums on "designs in 

 beeswax," and leave out the other fel- 

 low. It woul hardly be fair to give one 

 man all three premiums. You might 

 as well say "design or designs;" a 

 man could not enter if he had only • 

 one design, if you say "designs." 



A Member — Is it not a common 



thing, that one man gets first, second 



■ and third premiums on horses, cows, 



dhickens, and the like? Don't that 



often happen? 



Mr. York — Different entries, though. 



A Member — It seenns to me I have 

 seen them get first, second and third, 

 because they had the first, second and 

 third best in that particular line. 



Mr. Stone^ — Onlly one entry will be. 

 allowed each exhibitor for any one 

 premium; that is at the ihead of our 

 list. 



Mr. York — One design would not 

 compete at all, if j'ou say only "de- 

 signs." 



Mr. .Stone^ — My son worked two or 

 three weeks on Lincoln's Monument, 

 in beeswax, and three weeks on the 

 - Log Chain — about twenty feet long. 

 Both he and his wife worked until 

 midnight two nights. 



Mr. Coppin — It seems to me if it 

 were put "design or designs," it would 

 give them the privilege of making one 

 large article, or a number of small 

 articles, and I would make a motion 

 ' to that effect — that you put it "design 

 or designs." 



Mr. Pyles — The Secretary just read 

 ' tihat more than one design could not 

 be entered — only one entry of each 

 article. 



Mr. Stone — Suppose that Mr. Coppin 

 had a design in beeswax, or five or 

 six of themi; and Mt. Becker had five 

 or six designs — don't you suppose the 

 judge would pick out the best one of 

 each of them and pass on them? 



There is no reasonable man that would 

 think they would just bunch the wihole 

 thing together, and pass on them. 



Mr. Dadant — I ibelieve if the judge 

 had several articles under his eyes, 

 and he knew they were all under one 

 entry, he wouM take that under con- 

 sideration. I second the motion to 

 make it "design or designs." 



Mr. Bowen — I am opposed to the 

 amendment. I think the word "de- 

 sign" can cover the point. You can 

 get a premium only on one design; it 

 does not make any difference if you 

 have a dozen designs; you get the 

 premium only on your design. 



Mr. Stone — I shall vote against that 

 amendment, because it will make it 

 imore confusing than it ever v.'as. The 

 judges will get mixed up worse than 

 we are on it. 



Mr. York — Not the way I look at it 

 now. 



Mr. Dadant — If I was judge, and it 

 was "design or designs," I would say 

 if any one design is better than the 

 other, I would give it to the one that 

 was the better; and if there were a 

 number of designs', and any one de- 

 sign was the better, I would give it 

 to that one. 



A vote being taken, the amendment 

 carried — "Design or Designs in Bees- 

 wax." 



Mr. Stone — How much better is that 

 than the "Design in honey?" 



On motion, the convention adjourned 

 until the next morning at 9 o'clock. 



SECOND DAY. 



The convention met at 9:30 a. m., 

 with President Kildow in chair. 



Mr. York read a paper on: 

 Honey — Its Marketing and Staple Use. 



To some bee-keepers the word 

 ■"honey" is almost a new one, so far 

 as the honey season of 1909 was 

 concerned. A few not only har- 

 vested no honey at all, but even 

 had to feed their bees; or else 

 what their bees did store was 

 honey- dew, which, in some instances, 

 was but little better than no honey at 

 all, and in other cases worse than none, 

 especially for the bees' winter stores. 



But as the good honey seasons have 

 been in the past, so they will be again 

 in the future. About 20 years ago 



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