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FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



have our -fKctures taken on the steps 

 there. 



We will have it taken between 9 and 

 10 o'clock, if agreeable. (It was so de- 

 cided.) 



President Baxter — The first matter 

 we will consider will be the matter of 

 securing- a building for our honey ex- 

 hibit on the Fair Grounds. Was that 

 brought up by resolution? 



A nember — By question: What is 

 the ..est way to secure an apiary build- 

 ing at the Illinois Fair Grounds, a sep- 

 arate apiary building? 



Mr. Dadant — My reason for asking 

 that' question: The Minnesota people 

 have been highly praised by those who 

 have attended their Fair, and I wrote 

 to their Pres'ident to ask what they 

 had done ta secure such nice results. 



They wrote back they had obtained 

 from the F&ir management a separate 

 building, the size of which I do not re- 

 member, but they have ampe room for 

 their exhibits of all kinds. They have 

 a little ground adjoining which is sepa- 

 rated by a sufficient fence so the bees 

 do not disturb any one; they bring 

 quiet bees there, and the bee-keepers 

 of the state have clubbed together to 

 bring enough honey to run an extractor 

 the entire six days of the Fair, and 

 the report was it was astonishing how 

 many hundreds of people saw the ex- 

 tracting and asked questions and be- 

 came enthused over the consumption of 

 honey. 



Illinois ought to keep up with Min- 

 nesota; however, I must say, we don't 

 give near the premiums that the State 

 of Minnesota does. 



The state of Minnesota gives. I think. 

 $1,165 in premiums on bees and honey 

 and Illinois gives, I think, less than 

 one-fourth of that. 



Mr. Stone — About half. 



Mr. Dadant — We ought to be able to 

 keep up with Minnesota. 



Illinois is one of the best states In 

 the Union, certainly equal to Minne- 

 sota, in the production of honey and in 

 bee-keeping, and there is no reason 

 why w^e should take a back seat. 



It seems to me that the Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association should take 

 the matter in hand and insist that the 

 Fair organization must see that we 

 have representation as well as Min- 

 nesota, and I believe we can obtain it. 



Mr. Stone — Mr. President, the State 

 Fair at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has 



a building for the Apiarian Department 

 and the Culinary. In our Fair here, the 

 Superintendent of the Apiarian Depart-" 

 ment is also that of the Culinary De- 

 partment, and it would exactly suit him 

 to run them both in one building and 

 the bee-keepers have the whole of the 

 outside of that building. There are no 

 windows but all skylight. The whole 

 roof is skylight; it is splendid. 



President Baxter — Where was that? 



Mr. Stone^Oklahoma City. Our Su- 

 perintendent here is over both the cul- 

 inary and apiarian department and that 

 is all he has to do and the vegetarians 

 are trying to crowd us out of that wing. 

 They want our space for farm products 

 and they are after us all the time. 



When Mr. Coppin is slow about get- 

 ting in there they try to get his space. 

 He comes down with a car from his 

 town and a man brings the honey In 

 the car with his stock, and Mr. Coppin 

 gets down that way along with him, 

 and he has to wait until he is ready to 

 come, so he gets here about Saturday 

 night and he is compelled to work Sun- 

 day to get it into shape. 



There are dozens and dozens of theni 

 after that space, and there is conten- 

 tion all the time, and when our shelv- 

 ing was put In there they kicked ' 

 everything about it, and they are al- 

 ways questioning giving us the room. 



It has been said that we give a bet- 

 ter showing for the amount of prem- 

 iums than anything else on the Fair 

 Grounds and I believe if we will ask 

 for a proper building on that plan — the 

 apiaries to occupy the outer circle of 

 the building — it would be nice if it 

 were round rather than square, I guess, 

 because these angles are pretty hard to 

 fill in nicely. I believe something of 

 that kind would impress them very fa- 

 vorably. 



President Baxter — This would have 

 to be voted by the legislature, would 

 it not? 



Mr. Stone — No, the legislature has 

 nothing to do with it. The State 

 Board of Agriculture — they don't look 

 to the legislature for anything. They 

 don't wait for the legislature to make 

 any rules for the State Fair. 



President Baxter — Of course we 

 coud not get the building unless the 

 management would ask the legislature 

 for it. 



Mr. Stone — The legislature might be 

 asked for an appropriation to put it 



