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from the Director of the Illinois State 

 Experiment Station, and ask for a share 

 of the appropriation of the $15,000 

 from the general government for experi- 

 mental purposes. 



The resolution was carried, and the 

 following committee was appointed : 

 Thomas G. Newman, Mrs. L, Harrison, 

 and George Poindexter. 



Affiliation with, the North American. 



Upon motion of Thomas G. Newman, 

 it was decided that the Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association would affiliate 

 with the North American Bee-Keepers' 

 Association. 



Upon motion of Mr. Newman, a com- 

 mittee consisting of W. Z. Hutchinson, 

 J. A. Stone and James A. Green was 

 appointed to look up the matter of the 

 smaller bee-societies of the State affiliat- 

 ing with the State society. 



The convention then adjourned to 

 meet in the evening, but upon coming 

 together there were so few present, 

 many having gone to visit or to see the 

 sights of the city, and others desirous of 

 so doing, that the convention at once 

 adjourned to meet the next morning at 

 9 a.m. 



SECOND DAY— Morning Session. 



The convention was called to order at 

 9 a.m. President Hambaugh called upon 

 Mr. James A. Green to open the meet- 

 ing with prayer. 



Mr. George W. York, the new editor 

 of the American Bee Journal,, then 

 delivered the following 



Address of Welcome. 



Mr. President, and Members of Illinois 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association: — 

 To do full justice in welcoming such 

 an important organization as yours to 

 such a marvellous city as ours, I realize 

 it is indeed no small task. Hence, it is 

 with a feeling akin to fear when I con- 

 sider my own incompetency to do both 

 yourselves and the city justice, and so I 

 almost tremblingly undertake the per- 

 formance of the duty assigned me. 



My position to-day in the field of api- 

 arian literature has made me somewhat 

 familiar with just the kind of nobility I 

 am called upon to welcome to this 

 World's Fair city, and, in fact, it seems 

 to me like receiving into the city in 

 which next year is to be held the great- 

 est Fair known to the world, the world's 

 fairest and sweetest people. Such indeed 

 might be the case, did I not bear in mind 

 my duty to others of our broad land, 



who are alike engaged in the same en- 

 nobling and useful pursuit, and who 

 would justly claim an equal right to the 

 appropriate appellation — "the world's 

 fairest and sweetest people." 



In welcoming you, my friends, within 

 the borders of our city, I am much im- 

 pressed with the favorable reputation 

 of your organization ; for no less a per- 

 sonage than our esteemed mutual friend 

 and co-laborer, the editor of the magnifi- 

 cent Gleanings in Bee-Culture, recently 

 said this of you : 



"Next to the North American, the 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 is the most important, probably, of any 

 bee-keepers' association in the United 

 States. Since it receives annually an 

 appropriation of $500 from the State 

 Government, it is in a position to do 

 effective and important work for the 

 bee-keepers of Illinois." 



That, I consider, is a great compli- 

 ment, indeed, and to say that you are 

 entirely worthy of such a high estimate, 

 I feel is nothing more than the actual 

 truth. 



Knowing, as I do, something of the 

 greatness and reputation of the city in 

 which you now are, and having myself 

 somewhat of a long range, yet blessed, 

 acquaintance with many of those to 

 whom I am speaking, and whom I am 

 to receive, let me say that it is with the 

 purest pleasure that I extend to the 

 members of the Illinois State Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association a most cordial welcome 

 to all that is grand, and glorious and 

 sublime, in this our Western metropolis. 



When I consider the magnitude and 

 great usefulness of the industry which 

 your membership represents — with its 

 thousands upon thousands who are 

 earnestly devoted to making our land 

 more fruitful and its inhabitants more 

 sweet ; when I remember the antiquity 

 of your calling, for indeed history tells us 

 that away back in the centuries there 

 was " a land flowing with milk and 

 honey ;" when I think upon the future 

 that lies just before you, which is big 

 with promise of untold and undreamed 

 of blessings — when I consider, remem- 

 ber, and think upon, these things, I am 

 led to appreciate the true nobility of the 

 life and character of those whom it is 

 my delight and honor to welcome to our 

 city to-day. 



That your deliberations may be such 

 as shall bring to all your minds and 

 hearts a better comprehension of your 

 duties and responsibilities ; that your 

 coming together may result in the furth- 

 erance of all those things that shall 



