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THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 



Association wouldn't give us a bulletin. I move that we re- 

 quest the Governor to request the Secretary of Agriculture 

 to issue a bulletin to be distributed with farmers' bulletins, 

 as others are. 



Mr. Moore — I wish to amend this motion materially and 

 see if Mr. Abbott will accept it. I move that our convention 

 do request the National Association to formally ask the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture to take this matter up with them with 

 a view of publishing a bulletin such as is mentioned, on foul 

 brood. 



Mr. York — Will they be understood to work through 

 the National? 



Dr. Miller — It looks to me this way, if we do that, wait 

 for the action of the National, we don't gain anything. Any- 

 thing we do here would do nothing more than to get the 

 National to act. If two men ask me a thing that will have 

 more effect upon me than if one does it, and if the Governor 

 is asked by this society to do a thing, even if they say no and 

 somebody else asks it, I think we will do more by making it a 

 direct request, and then let the National make the request af- 

 terwards. 



Mr. Abbott — I had that in view, and I should like to see 

 this motion on its way to Washington tomorrow. I am a 

 fellow who does a thing when I think of it, and while I am 

 in the notion. That was my reason for making it direct. 

 I thought first of requesting Mr. Wilson to do it. He will 

 do it without any request, and he will second it without a 

 request, but we better make the initiative and let Secretary 

 Wilson know we mean business, and I know him well enough 

 to know that you will get a response at once, and Wilson 

 will refer it to Benton. Secretary Wilson is the head, and he 

 will attend to it. 



Mr. Wilcox — Mr. Abbott put in what I was going to say, 

 and that is, that Mr. Benton is the man to publish the bulletin, 

 and he is well acquainted with the National Association, and 

 a personal request from them would probably produce the 

 result without any further action. 



Mr. Abbott — My motion is to have it go to the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture. It will go to Mr. Howard and then to 

 Mr. Benton, but if Mr. Wilson says it has got to go, it goes. 

 If you go to the other end, you commence at the wrong end. 



Dr. Miller — I believe we will gain time if the mover of 

 the amendment will think of it right. What do we gain bv 

 using our influence second-hand. 



Mr. Moore — I withdraw the amendment. 

 _ Mr. York — Mr. Abbott, will you please state the motion 

 as it is now? 



Mr. Abbott— I move that the Chicago-Northwestern Bee- 

 Keepers' Association request the Secretary of Agriculture to 

 issue a bulletin on foul brood and other bee-diseases as a 

 farmers' bulletin, to be distributed with other farmers' bulle- 

 tins, and that the secretary be requested, in forwarding the 

 motion to the Secretary of Agriculture, to give him such 

 statements as to the importance of a bulletin of this kind 

 as he may deem necessary. 



