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■ Committee on Program — iMr. N. E. 

 France, General Manager, Platteville, 

 Wis. 



Committee on Rules — Messrs. Geo. 

 W. York, Illinois; O. O. Poppleton, 

 Florida, and C. J. Barber, Iowa. 



Committee on Resolutions — ^Messrs. 

 C. P. Dadant, Illinois; W. P. South- 

 worth, Iowa, and P. B. Ramer, Minne- 

 sota, 



Committee on Questions — ^Messrs. 

 R. A. Morgan, South Dakota; M. E. 

 Darby, Missouri, and J. P. Goodwin, 

 Nebraska. 



After the appointment of these 

 Committees the "Vice-President left 

 the chair, and the same was taken by 

 the President, Mr. George E. Hilton, 

 of Fremont, iMich. 



Dr. Bohrer — Speaking with refer- 

 ence to the next place of meeting, I 

 think the matter should be gone into 

 carefully, and instead of holding the 

 meetings at different places extend- 

 ing over long distances there should 

 be some central place selected, and 

 the Annual Meeting should be held 

 there from year to year. 



The President — ^This Association 

 represents a very large membership, 

 and there are probably more people 

 engaged in the business of bee-keeping 

 than In any other business in the 

 world, and unless we oscillate and 

 change about from one point of our 

 great country to another, but very few 

 of those engaged in the business are 

 going to attend. I would not be in 

 favor of locating it in the geograph- 

 ical center of any one State, but I 

 would have the meeting moved about 

 from one side of our grand country to 

 the other, so that the greatest pos- 

 sible amount of good may be received 

 by the greatest number. Five years 

 ago we were at Los Angeles, then at 

 San Antonio, Texas, then at Harris- 

 burg, Pennsylvania, and last year at 

 Detroit, Michigan, and today we are 

 here. Next year we will be some- 

 where else. We try to do these 

 things in accordance with the wishes 

 of the people. I am talking now as a 

 Member of the Executive Committee. 

 We try to hold these Conventions 

 where we think the best results will 

 be accomplished. I believe the Com- 

 mittee has acted conscientiously and 

 have wanted to do the best they 

 could. 



Mr. Ramer — Mr. President, I would 



ask whether it would be appropriate 

 to hold the next C/onvention in con- 

 nection with the^ Minnesota State 

 Fair. I hope th©^ Executive Commit- 

 tee will consider that matter. We 

 have a good many bee-keepers in 

 Minnesota and T\''isconsin. The State 

 Fair is held between Minneapolis and 

 St. Paul. It would be for the Com- 

 mittee to decide whether they hold 

 the Convention in one of those cities 

 or on the Fair Grounds. 



The President — These matters will 

 all be considered by the Executive 

 Committee very conscientiously, and 

 they will be glad to receive sugges- 

 tions from both the United States and 

 Canadian brethren. 



Mr. Dadant — If the question is still 

 open, I would like to state personally 

 that I can see a great deal more ad- 

 vantage by the Association meeting at 

 different places than by meeting all 

 the time at some center — always at 

 the same point or near the same 

 point. There are some who cannot 

 afford to attend the Conventions at 

 long distances, and if the .meetings 

 are held in the different localities 

 they will be glad to attend them and 

 bring to the meetings their ideas. 

 The men who attend Conventions, and 

 who live far away, will attend no mat- 

 ter where the meetings are held. 

 They also will bring their ideas. If 

 the members met at the same spot 

 every year, the same men would at- 

 tend, the same men from far away 

 would be there, and nothing new com- 

 parativly would be brought forward. 

 WTien we go to a strange place we 

 have people attend who have differ- 

 ent methods and different ways of do- 

 ing things, and who bring us their 

 Ideas, and in return get ours. We 

 thus make a greater amount of ex- 

 change of views. Therefore, I believe 

 it is very much better to have the 

 Convention in a new place each time. 

 We have at times to go back to the 

 centers. There are many bee-keepers 

 who are very anxious to have the Con- 

 vention in their neighborhood. There 

 are parts of the country where the 

 (Convention has never gone. There 

 are men who dislike to become mem- 

 bers of the National because they 

 think they are not treated right. We 

 would, therefore, do better if we tried 

 to hold the National Convention first 

 in one section and then in the other. 

 I think the President is exactly right. 



