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SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



thing- for this next Fair, but for the 

 following Fair. 



I am sorry that the President has 

 forgotten the plans and left them at 

 home; I was very anxious for you to 

 isee them. 



I The building will cost, as planned, in 

 the neighborhood of $20,000, one story 

 building, brick wall; part of the room 

 for the exhibit of honey is to be some- 

 thing after the manner in which honey 

 was displayed at the World's Colum- 

 bian Exposition. 



The bees to be on exhibit will all 

 have exits through the wall, the tube 

 method, something like they had at 

 San Francisco. Bees, as you know, 

 shut up in the hive do not show the 

 ^bees as they are seen by the public; 

 thoy are racing around and they get 

 a false idea of bees. 



The extracting room is simply built 

 in the form of an "L", the entrance 

 of which is screened; the extractor 

 would be in what would be in the 

 basement floor; the spectators could be 

 on the sides, be comfortable, eat a 

 little honey if they cared to, and look 

 into the top of the extractor and be 

 convinced that it was not adulterated 

 honey, 



1 have had my heart in this project 

 and I think it is a good thing. I think 

 to educate the people especially on the 

 line of extracted honey would be an 

 excellent thing; there seems to be a 

 fear there might be something in ex- 

 tracted honey; a great many feel we 

 get extracted honey by putting the 

 comb in the wash tub and chopping 

 it up with a spade and straining it in 

 a flour back; they don't understand it; 

 they don't understand it can be pure. 

 So I think it is up to the bee-keep- 

 ery to educate the people in this line. 



Dr. Baxter — I move the adoption of 

 this report. 



President Baxter— Gentlemen, here 

 is the report of your committee on 

 State Fair Building. I would recom- 

 mend that the report be adopted and 

 that the committee be continued; their 

 work is incomplete; the legislature 

 meets this winter, and this winter is 

 the time we have got to ask for the 

 appropriation. If that meets with your 

 views, any motion you wish to make 

 will be entertained. What is your 

 pleasure ? 



Mr. Kildow — Mr. President, it seems 



as though they don't know what they 

 want to do; if they want this com- 

 mittee to go ahead, they want to say 

 so. 



President Baxter — It is with you, 

 gentlemen, whatever your pleasure is. 



Mr. Stone — I want to make a motion 

 that this report be received and the 

 committee continued. 



President Baxter — Is there a second? 



Motion seconded and carried. 



Dr. Baxter — Mr. President, Members 

 of the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation: 



Your Legislative Committee begs 

 leave to report: 



That on November 1st, 1916, they 

 filed with the Legislative Reference 

 Bureau to place in the budget the re- 

 quest of the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association for an appropriation of 

 $1,000 from the Illinois State Legisla- 

 ture to be used as follows: 



For publishing report $ 500.00 



For stenographer work 200.00 



For expense of convention.... 100.00 



For stationery and postage... 100.00 



For field work meetings 100.00 



$1,000.00 

 Respectfully submitted, 



A. C. BAXTER Chairman. 

 , JAMES A. STONE. 



Dr. Baxter — The old method in which 

 tve obtained funds was to have a mem- 

 ber in the House and Senate introduce 

 our Bill, which would give us $1,000, 

 Then we had to go before the Finance 

 Committee and defend it. By this 

 method it is put before the Finance 

 Committee by the Reference Bureau, 

 which makes up the budget for the 

 state of Illinois. Of course we will 

 probably have to defend it before the 

 Finance Committee just the same, but 

 there is a question in my mind about 

 this method. 



I have not been able to determine by 

 that method where we can use this 

 money for any other thing except as it 

 is specified in what I have filed; in 

 other words: "For publishing report 

 $500.00" r if we only use $350, the rest 

 cannot be used for anything but pub- 

 lishing the report, and our Secretary 

 will have to make a report to the 

 Auditor and the State Treasurer of 

 what the money has been used for. 



I have not been able to determine 

 everything I want to know about this 



