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NIN-TH ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE 



think you held your local Association 

 meeting in this building, did you not? 



Mr. Brown — Yes. 



The President — How does the at- 

 tendance of this meeting and the 

 attendance at your local meeting com- 

 pare ? 



Mr. Brown — We had more men, I be- 

 lieve, at the local Association at 

 every meeting than there are here. 

 There were as many people from this 

 city as there are on the south side of 

 the room now, and a great many of 

 them who were simply interested in 

 the natural history of the bee, or 

 something of that kind, and many that 

 had only one or two colonies. At the 

 time we had the meeting, there was 

 nothing particular going on in the 

 town. We picked out a date that 

 would be convenient for the people to 

 come here. I know at several of the 

 meetings we had a good deal larger 

 attendance than we have in the room 

 at the present time, and that was sup- 

 posed to be only a local Association. 



The President — That is the surpris- 

 ing feature to me, that your Associa- 

 tion meeting should be so much more 

 attractive than an Association meeting 

 of a National character, and I am at a 

 loss to Itnow why it is so, unless it is 

 the reduced rates and the Fair. 



Mr. Miles — From a practical bee- 

 man's standpoint there was one thing 

 that struck me in this locality, and 

 that was in regard to the season when 

 these meetings are held, and I think 

 that has something to do with the fact 

 that this local Association had a 

 larger attendance, as I can corrobor- 

 ate; they held their meeting at a time 

 when the bee-keeper was througn with 

 his work and had time to go. This 

 meeting comes just at the time that if 

 a person had a crop of honey he could 

 not have been here. It takes about a 

 week for me to come here, even if I 

 am nearby, and my time is worth more 

 to me than all the other expense. I 

 would rather pay out quite a little bit 

 more in money later on in the fall or 

 winter than waste this amount of 

 time. 



At this point. Dr. Phillips addressed 

 the meeting, but requested that the 

 reporter make no record of what he 

 said. 



Mr. Goddard — I want to endorse all 

 that Dr. Phillips has said here. I am 

 virtually a new man In the bee busi- 

 ness. The way I got notice of your 



Association was this: I bought some 

 bees from a man, and he says, "I have 

 got a lot of Bee Journals and other 

 stuff I will dump in if you have any 

 place to put them." And he brought a 

 barrel of old Bee Journals and stuff to 

 my place, and I sorted it over, and I 

 ran across one of your Annual Re- 

 ports, and 1 sent in my membership 

 fee right away. That Annual Report 

 alone to me was worth more than the 

 dollar it cost me to become a mem- 

 ber of your Association. I don't be- 

 lieve it is necessary for this Associa- 

 tion to divide the fees or dues with 

 the local Association; I don't believe 

 it ought to divide the dollar with the 

 State Association, or with the Honey 

 Producers' Association, or any other 

 association. I believe you ought to 

 have your dollar, and I believe you 

 ought to have enough of those Annual 

 Reports so that you can send them to 

 the bee-keepers in the State, those 

 that are not members as well as to the 

 members. I will venture to say there 

 is not one member in ten in this 

 State, or in South Dakota, who knows 

 the benefits of this Association, or 

 what he could learn, and which he 

 would learn if it were advertised, and 

 then you would get your money. 



Dr. Bohrer — ^With all due respect to 

 the gentlemen who have made remarks 

 concerning the papers, I have heard 

 papers read at bee-keepers' associa- 

 tions and medical associations, which 

 were not worth the paper they were 

 written on. If we have papers prop- 

 erly prepared and brought here and 

 read and discussed, it is going to be a 

 valuable feature of the Association. 

 But, I know of no well conducted or- 

 ganization, medical or bee-keepers' 

 association where the membership is 

 entirely prohibited . from dropping 

 questions upon the desk or in a box 

 to be answered. At the same time, 

 there are persons who do not know the 

 rules of discussion, and know nothing 

 about parliamentary usage when they 

 are talking, and they say a whole lot 

 about nothing. I am not anxious to 

 defend a thing of that kind. I don't 

 think that you would like it yourself 

 if you adopted that and excluded 

 everything of that kind. We cannot 

 anticipate everything bee-keepers may 

 want to know when we come into an 

 assembly of this kind. We often find 

 men and women who can answer to 

 our satisfaction privately, but may 



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