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-■ have supplies — and bee-keepers attract 

 bee-keepers. They come to see each 

 other; they are interested in the ex- 

 hibits, and at the same time in the dis- 

 cussions. 



We can make some such rule as that. 



A committee can take in some points 



we are unable to get at here today, if 



they are given ample time, as they 



;_ will be before the report is published, 

 they can give us really something that 

 will be more intelligently gotten up 

 than we could get up here today on 

 the spur of the moment. 



President Baxter — Anything further 

 on the subject? 



I would state, ladies and gentle- 



■ men, that the State Horticultural So- 

 ciety for a great many years past have 

 been offering several hundred dollars 

 in premiums for fruit, vegetables and 



■ ; other horticultural matters exhibited 



at their state meetings. This hall 

 ; would not begin to show what they 

 had. 



When the session is called, the doors 

 are locked, and everybody goes out. 

 During the intermission the exhibit is 

 visited, and the members take note. 

 It is of great benefit as an educational 

 feature. I believe it would be the same 

 with us. 



Mr. Williams — Along that same line, 

 for the good I think it would do, I want 

 to tell a little story: 



In my town, a man works with me 

 every day that claims he has been 

 :■ a judge at county fairs on honey. 

 Within the last three months he told 

 me he went to Peoria last year to buy 

 some honey, some -comb honey; and 

 he said it was no more honey than 

 glucose is honey. He said: "I know 

 positively it was manufactured honey." 



Now, if we have a honey exhibit here 

 at our Association, I think it would 

 tend to dispel that thing, the thought 

 among some people that honey is man- 

 ufactured. 



This man said he wanted to buy 

 : honey from me because he said he 

 knew that was honey. 



Mr. Pyles — As Mr. Dadant states the 



proposition, I am not opposed to it. I 



was opposed to it as the motion was 



H made, to have the exhibit here at our 



annual meeting. I would be opposed 



..; to the proposition to have it here. 



As Mr. Dadant has stated: I would 

 withdraw any objection I might have. 



Dr. Baxter — If we decide to have an 

 exhibit of honey, that means that ex- 

 hibit cannot be in this building. We 

 will have to move away; our bee- 

 keepers' convention will have to be 

 held at another place. The Secretary 

 of the State or Board of Control of 

 this building will not allow exhibits of 

 this kind to go into the State Capitol, 

 as it makes state buildings to be ad- 

 vertising mediums, advertising certain 

 lines of work — some one man's product. 

 That means you must go to a hotel 

 or have the exhibit in another build- 

 ing, not in the Capitol. 



Mr. Stone — Mr. President: Right 

 along that line: There was a time 

 when — I don't knbw just what kind of 

 an exhibit it was — but they brought 

 grape fruit from Florida; it was on 

 exhibition at the sun parlor at the Le- 

 land. It was fine. We might make an 

 arrangement to have it in the sun par- 

 lor, of the Leland. 



President Baxter — All those in favor 

 of the motion, signify it by saying Aye. 



President Baxter — The motion is 

 that a committee of three be appointed 

 with full power to act in regard to 

 putting in these medals, or premiums, 

 or not, for exhibitions of honey at our 

 state meetings. 



Mr. Bowen — If this committee re- 

 ports adversely, there will be nothing 

 of the kind? 



President Baxter — What is your 

 pleasure? All in favor of the motion 

 as read, signify it by saying Aye. 



Motion was carried. 



Mr. Dadant — You remember there 

 was a suggestion made by Mr. Root, of 

 Ohio, yesterday, in regard to recom- 

 mending an appropriation by Congress 

 for the extension of bee- culture in the 

 United States and increasing the ap- 

 propriation from $5,000 to $50,000, 

 which has been promised by one of the 

 committee men in Congress, provided 

 he should return to Congress and was 

 head of that committee again. 



Mr. Root desires us to pass a reso- 

 lution, and the members of the com- 

 iliittee propose this resolution: 



Resolution. 



Resolved, That the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association recommend that 

 the $5,000 appropriated ^ by the last 

 Congress, to be expended by the Bu- 

 reau of Entomology, Washington, D. C, 



