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THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 



discussion for each local organization. Everybody sees how 

 the matter is. Secretary Wilson will pay more attention to 

 a dozen letters which he is sure to get in regard to this talk, 

 and every State and every county can do the same thing. 

 It isn't for the interest of the bee-keepers just here in Chi- 

 cago that it will work. It will work for every_ bee-keeper, 

 even those who never belonged to any association. Let it 

 go out that there is an advantage in union if it is only five 

 people. Take a church of five women and they meet together 

 every week and have a real, real good time, and promote 

 wonderful good in a community, and it is the same way in 

 other industries, and it always helps. It helps me to just 

 leave my store and go over and talk to John Smith who is in 

 the same business. I prettv nearly came all the way from St 

 Joseph, Mo., to see Mr. York because he is interested along 

 certain lines; simply to get inspiration, suggestions, and help. 

 That lifts me up. That's my idea. 



Mr. York — Mr. Abbott says he very nearly cafne all that- 

 way to see me. I don't believe it would pay him, but he 

 says he might do that. It would pay sometimes probably 

 for us to get together and see persons. I have had gentle- 

 men come to see me about certain matters, and it seemed 

 to do them good, and I know it was good for me just to meet 

 them. 



Mr. Johnson — I am satisfied that local organization is a 

 good thing, and especially in selling honey, but I would like 

 somebody to tell us how we are going to get a local organiza- 

 tion. 



Mr. Whitney — I think we will agree that an organization is 

 a good thing, but it is sometimes difficult to know how we are go- 

 ing to get them together. At pur olace I have taken a little pains 

 to try to get bee-keepers together at Lake Geneva, and I 

 have written half a dozen letters and I don't get a response 

 from a single individual. We are going to try it, though, 

 and see if we cannot get an organization. I think if we had 

 an organization at Lake Geneva, individuals wouldn't be 

 rushing their honey to the grocers at lo cents a pound as 

 they did, and lose money by it, too. I tell you, an organiza- 

 tion is what every county that has a number of individuals 

 engaged in the same business ought to have. 



Dr. Miller — I very strongly suspect that if a man were 

 obliged to answer that perhaps he would answer it all right, 

 and he might say — well, I don't know all about it, and I would 

 like to call on Mr. J. E. Johnson to tell us just how he would 

 go to work to get up an organization in his neighborhood. 



Mr. Johnson — I have been trying to organize an associa- 

 tion of our county, and of course, I would like to take in 

 other counties. I have talked with a preat manv, but I have 

 never talked with any but what say it is a good thing, just 

 the thing exactly. I have started out a little on that line, and 

 that is to write all the bee-keepers I know of in the county, 

 and put an advertisement in the daily paper to get the address 

 of ail I don't know, and then try to have a meeting; then 

 organize, and your other meetings would depend upon the 

 success of that one. 



