ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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committee that was appointed to draft 

 resolutions in regard to the Fair 

 Grounds proposition — Mr. Dadant. 



Mr. Dadant — The Committee ap- 

 pointed begs leave to report as fol- 

 • lows: 



Be it resolved, By the Illinois State 

 Bee -Keepers' Association, an organiz- 

 ation incorporated February 26, 1891, 

 under the laws of Illinois and recog- 

 nized officially by the State of Illi- 

 nois: 



Whereas, The members of the Illi- 

 nois State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 consider that their interests need 

 greater representation at the Illinois 

 State Fair; and. 



Whereas, If a greater space is allot- 

 ted to their industry and a larger 

 amount paid in premiums, it will help 

 increase the demand for honey and 

 thereby encourage their industry; and 



Where, Other states such as Minne- 

 sota have a much greater recognition 

 in this line; 



Therefore, Be it resolved by the Illi- 

 nois State Bee-Keepers' Association in 

 meeting assembled, that we request 

 the Illinois Board of Agriculture to 

 erect a separate building for the ex- 

 hibits of bees and honey with a spe- 

 cial room in said building for the dem- 

 onstration of manipulations such as 

 the extraction of honey from the comb, 

 to educate the people as to the true 

 nature of our products. 



Respectfully submitted, 



EMIL J. BAXTER, Pres. 

 JAS. A. STONE, Sec. 



Mr. Dadant — We move the adoption 

 * of this resolution, Mr. President. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



Mr. Kildow — Would it not be well, 

 provided they will not build that room, 

 for us to ask them to have all the 

 room we have been occupying? 



President Baxter — We will have to 

 do that anyway, Mr. Kildow, if they 

 cannot build a building in time. We 

 will want to keep all the space we can 

 get. 



Mr. Stone — Mr. Kildow referred to 

 having the whole "L". 



Mr. Kildow — I referred to taking out 

 the vegetables and letting us have that 

 center. 



President Baxter — This committee 

 can make it their duty to see to get- 

 ting it until we have a new building 

 provided. 



President Baxter — The next thing in 

 order will be the essay of Mr. Dadant 

 — 'The agency of bees in the fertiliza- 

 tion of flowers." 



Mr. Dadant — Mr. President, I was 

 going to say I was afraid that tho 

 bee-keepers present are pretty well 

 aware of the facts that. I have stated 

 in this paper; they are generally well, 

 posted on the fertilization of flowers, 

 but this subject I think is a good one 

 to insert in a report because it is read 

 by farmers who often imagine bees in- 

 jure their flowers and fruit instead of 

 doing them good. 



That belief is dying away but there 

 are still a g'reat many people who do 

 not know the real facts. 



I take it for granted you all know 

 that which I am going to read. " I 

 don't think there is much that is new 

 in what I have written; I am simply 

 bringing those facts more plainly be- 

 fore bee-keepers and fruit growers. 



"THE AGENCY OF BEES IN THE 

 FERTILIZATION OF FLOWERS." 



Mr. C. P. Dadant. 



The question which I have accepted 

 the task of answering today is: Are 

 bees useful or necessary in the fer- 

 tilization of our fruits? 



Bees gather both pollen and honey 

 from the blossoms upon which they 

 work, pollen for the breeding of their 

 young and honey both for the brood 

 and for their own food. But it is not 

 generally known why the wants of 

 bees are supplied by the floral world. 

 Investigation shows us a meaning to 

 the existence and the relation of in- 

 sects and flowers. 



Plants blossom in order that seed 

 may be produced. The flower of each 

 plant is an intricate problem. Before 

 the seed is produced pollen from the 

 anthers must reach the part called the 

 stigma, or in other words the male 

 part must supply its fertilizing sub- 

 stance to the female part, the seed- 

 bearing pistil, of which the receiving 

 part is the center stem or stigma. 

 Some flowers be^ar both a number of 

 anthers and the stigma in the same 

 corolla, some flowers are self-fertiliz- 

 ing; others, though possessing both 

 organs, are unable to fertilize their 

 fruit without feid; some other flowers 

 are incomplete, having only one of the 

 organs perfect while they have to rely 

 on other blossoms for the other organ. 



