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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Appropriation for the World's Fair. 



The Bill to appropriate $5,000 for 

 the exhibit of bees and honey at the 

 World's Columbian Fair is now before 

 the Illinois Legislature. It was intro- 

 duced on March 25, by Hon. Joseph M. 

 Hambaugh, and was, as usual, referred 

 to the proper committee. The full text 

 of the Bill reads thus : 



Whereas, The large revenues derived 

 annually from the sale of honey by the 

 bee-keepers of Illinois make this import- 

 ant industry worthy of the fostering care 

 of the General Assembly ; and 



Whereas, A creditable apiarian exhibit 

 by bee-keepors of Illinois at the World's 

 Columbian Exposition, to be held in Chi- 

 cago in 1893, will call marked attention 

 to this growing industry, and greatly as- 

 sist the development of the same, and 

 thereby add largely to the material pros- 

 perity of the State ; and 



Whereas, The Illinois Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, an organization composed 

 of leading apiarists of the State, and 

 duly incorporated, have petitioned this 

 General Assembly for an appropriation 

 to defray the expenses of making an 

 exhibit of bees, honey and apiarian sup- 

 plies and appliances at the World's 

 Columbian Exposition ; therefore 



Be it Enacted, That there be and is 

 hereby appropriated to the Illinois Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, out of any money 

 in the treasury not otherwise appropri- 

 ated, the following sums, to-wit: For 

 payment of expenses of making an exhibit 

 of bees, honey, apiarian supplies and ap- 

 pliances at the World's Columbian Expo- 

 sition, the sum of $5,000, or so much 

 thereof as may be required to make a 

 creditable display. 



Now, if every bee-keeper in Illinois has 

 not already written to the Senator and 

 Assemblyman of his district, let that be 

 done at once, urging them to support the 

 measure, and endeavor to secure the 

 necessary appropriation for a creditable 

 exhibition of the products of the bee, at 

 the coming World's Fair. 



A New T-Tin Machine has been in- 

 vented by Mr. A. Beeson, a Colorado 

 apiarist, which completes the product 

 by one operation, and is said to be 

 superior to anything now in use. 



Spraying Fruit Trees while in bloom 

 should be condemned by all rational 

 persons. We are appealed to for the 

 draft of a bill to be presented to the 

 Illinois Legislature, making it a criminal 

 offense, etc. Such a Bill is now before 

 the Michigan Legislature. It reads thus : 



TJie People of the State of Michigan 

 Enact, That it shall be unlawful for any 

 person to spray any fruit or other trees, 

 shrubs, vines or plants, with paris green, 

 london purple, white arsenic, or other 

 virulent poisons, or to scatter upon such 

 trees, shrubs, vines or plants, powdered 

 london purple, paris green, white 

 arsenic, or other virulent poisons, while 

 such trees, shrubs, vines or plants are 

 in blossom, and so may be visited by 

 honey-bees in quest of nectar or pol- 

 len. And that any person who shall 

 spray such trees, shrubs, vines or plants 

 with london purple, paris green, white 

 arsenic, or other virulent poisons, or 

 shall scatter the poison upon the same 

 while in blossom, shall be deemed guilty 

 of a misdemeanor, and for the first 

 offense, shall be punished by fine in any 

 sum not less than five dollars, and for 

 the second offense, by fine in any sum 

 not less than twenty-five > dollars, and in 

 default of payment of the same, by im- 

 prisonment in the county jail not more 

 than ninety days. ' 



The following from Prof. Cook we 

 commend to the attention of Michigan 

 fruit growers : 



There is a bill before the Senate of 

 the Michigan Legislature about spray- 

 ing fruit trees while they are in blossom. 

 If enacted, it makes such practice a mis- 

 demeanor. There is some opposition. 

 It comes on the ground of prospective 

 injury to fruit men. Yet our State 

 Horticultural Society, and the Grand 

 River Valley Horticultural Society, have 

 both unanimously passed resolutions, 

 urging the passage of the bill. Senator 

 Taylor informs me that if fruit men will 

 write to their Senators, favoring the pass- 

 age of the bill, it will do much good. I 

 would urge all Michigan fruit men to do 

 this. The petitions should come from 

 fruit men rather than bee-men. Each 

 person might petition his own Senator, 

 and the Legislature in general. The 

 last could be sent to Senator R. L. 

 Taylor, Lansing, Mich. 



A. J. Cook. 



A similar bill should be presented to 

 the Legislature in every State. 



