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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



A. A. Baldwin — I think one object of 

 exhibits is to educate the people. When 

 they have looked them over, they spread 

 abroad their knowledge of them. 



G. P. Morton — We have been running 

 this association for three years, and it 

 is very hard to keep up the interest, and 

 I am willing to engraft such exhibition 

 on the work, and see if we cannot create 

 a greater interest among bee-keepers. 



L. W. Baldwin — I am much in favor 

 of it ; but how can we get the money to 

 carry it on with ? If each member 

 would do a little, it would amount to 

 quite a sum. 



It was decided to make such an ex- 

 hibit of anything connected with the 

 business. 



THIRD DAY— Morning Session. 



The third day's first session convened 

 at 9 a.m. After the reception of sev- 

 eral members, the deferred work was 

 taken up on the 



world's fair exhibit. 



C. L. Buckmaster asked if the State 

 Board of Commissioners were disposed 

 to do anything for the bee-keepers ? 



G. P. Morton stated that the Board 

 said substantially that all we can do for 

 you is this : You collect your goods and 

 ship them to Chicago, and we will pay 

 the shipping expenses, and will provide 

 space and cases for them to occupy ; 

 but will not guarantee that we can give 

 you a superintendent there, neither can 

 we issue a warrant for any sum of 

 money, and let your Treasurer dispose 

 of it. 



Some of the members were disposed 

 to drop the matter. « 



L. W. Baldwin — I do not think it 

 would be well to drop it so suddenly. I 

 think we had better wait and try to get 

 the State to help us. I do not see how 

 we can get it in any shape at this meet- 

 ing, as it would be impossible to get any 

 honey this year for an exhibit. If we 

 had $500 or a §1,000, and could ap- 

 point a committee to -take charge of it, 

 we might make something out of it. 



A motion was carried, that the pro- 

 curing and arrangement of the exhibit 

 be left in the hands of the Executive 

 Committee. 



APICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



The subject of establishing an experi- 

 mental station at the State University 

 was laid before the meeting, and Mr. 

 Buckmaster, representing the interests 

 of the University, read an essay on the 



subject. [This essay will appear later. 

 — Ed.1 



A discussion of the question was 

 brought to a close by a resolution intro- 

 duced by Mrs. Null, "That it is the 

 sense of this association that we receive 

 recognition for apiculture at the experi- 

 ment station, and that a committee of 

 two be appointed to meet with the cura- 

 tors of the University at their next meet- 

 ing, and present the subject." 



The Secretary stated that Mr. Thomas 

 V. Cornell, a visiting bee-keeper of Cen- 

 ter Point, Iowa, was present, and moved 

 that he be made an honorary member of 

 the association, which was agreed to. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The convention met at 1:30 o'clock. 

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The committee on resolutions was 

 called on, and reported the following : 



Resolved, That we extend our sympa- 

 thy to Bro. Quigley, of the Progressive 

 Bee-Keeper, in his recent loss by fire. 



Resolved, That this association cannot 

 in any way approve of the practice of 

 feeding sugar syrup to bees for the pur- 

 pose of obtaining surplus, and placing 

 the same on the market as pure honey. 



