IDLIXOIS STATE BEE7KE)EPHRS' AiSSQCIATION 25 



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We had 300 copies of our last Annual ting their letter, I began to thlnte - 

 Report in cloth for the memhers of tbe probaibly we did not have it in our Re- 

 Association, and 100 paper bound. The port; I knew t had gone over it in 

 supply of the cloth-bound is about ex- reading the proof, but I found, in mak- 

 hausted, ajid for the paper bound there ing out the Index, I had in some way 

 is but little call. Several Ldbraries failed to put it in. It is on the 104th 

 have made, a call for the Reports and page, under Louis C. Dadant's picture. 

 ask to be placed on our mailing list. But since then we have clipped 



They are as follows: through Gleanings a revision of the 



1. University of Illinois Library same receipts that we think is better, 



Vols. 1-9 as the one given In our Report con- 



2. New York State Lribrary tains too much honey to the amount 



Vols. 1-9 of fruit. My wife has tried some of 



3. Ontario Agricultural College them' and thinks the proportion of 



Vols. 1-9 honey too large. 



4. Bureau of Entomology, Wash- Mr. York — ^Is it written by the same 



ington, D. C Vols. 1-9 lady who wrote the other article? 



5. The John Crerar Library, Chi- Mr. Stone — ^Yes, it is the same per- 



cago Vols. 1-9 son; she revised the former receipt. 



6. Illinois State Historical Library Mr. York — Her name is Mrs. H. K. 



Vols. 1-9 Board, of Pennsylvania. 



7. Illinois State Library. .Vols. 1-9 "We have received— Mr. Stone con- 

 Others were sent (at their request) tinuing to read report) — several letters 



to editors and professors. from the World's Panama Exposition 



Siome of the States are asking for which read as follows: 



our Code of Rules for judging honey iit- u. -o t-. »*• ^ 



„* tn„- r, rrn. -kt -u i oS x ■■-. j World's Panama Exposition Companv, 



at Fairs. The Nebraska State Board New Orleans, La. 



of Agriculture asked for them through , ' July 6, 1910. 



their Secretary, W. R. Mellor. The Illinois State Bee Keepers Association, 



State Fair of Oklahoma have made Springfield, 111.: 



the same request through their Sec- _ Gentlemen— As you probably know, New 



■rafa-rv Tvrr T « ivToVian Orleans and San Francisco are rival con- 



retary, ivir. i. &. Manan. testants for congressional recognition as 



When these different 'States begin to the logical point at which to celebrate the 



copy our Code of Rules it shows us completion of the Panama Canal with a 



+v,^ ^,v,T^,^,.+o»,«« ^f i,^.,.,-^^ +1,^^ ^^r.i-4-.r gTesit Woild's Panama Exposition in 1915, 



. the importance of having them pretty ^nd the matter will be settled at the 



! well up to date, and nave them correct, December session of Congress. 



and I make one suggestion regarding Over 60,000.000 people reside within a 



tbi<9 Ifltpr in m-v TP.nn-rt radius of 1,000 miles from New Orleans, 



tnis later m my report. ^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ radius from Frisco 



In other States individuals have there are only 6,000,000 people. The 



asked for our rules, saying their State average railroad fare to New Orleans for 

 was going to use the Code of Rules - over 75 per cent of the people of this 



„.3« 4. J 1, J.T, Tin • c<i i -n 1 country to visit an Exposition here will 



adopted by the Illinois State Beekeep- be.;$12-.50 as against $37.50 to Frisco; and 



ers' Association. because of its geographical location with 



A .,Tr».„« ««rv,^„r„, t^ r\^^^^„■^A o„u reference to the^eenter of population in 



A syrup company in Oakland, Call- t^e U. S., also its proximity to the 



fornia, wrote us to know what it would Panama Canal, New Orleans is the only 



cost them to get the receipt from our logical point for an exposition celebrating 



Association for "Canning Fruit with iehie^Sn?°'' °^ *^^* ^^^* American 



Honey— Can What You Can." They Tour own' State will be greatly bene- 



understood we had a newspaper clip- fitted, both directly and indirectly, by an 



nine- of it and <«aid "TpII n<5 <hn-ar mnpVi exposition held in New Orleans. It will 



ping or It, ana saia, leii us iiow much ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^j^jj^^g ^^^ ^^^ Mississippi 



the postage would be to get it, and we valley and the South, whereas any bene- 



will advance it." We answered that it fits resultant from an exposition held in 



was the property of the Illinois Bee San Francisco will be confined entirely to 



i7 Trip x^flOlnC C/OflfSL 



Keepers' Association, and could ooily ^^ endorsement by your organization 



be gotten by paying the $1.00 mfember- of New Orleans as the logical point will 



• fiPhip fee, when they would get ■fee re- have much weight, and we are going to 



^««_4. A.X. <nii.i- u XT- \ J. need everv possible influence m Congress 



ceipt on the l(Mth page of the feport in Decemberwhen the selection of a site 



that would be sent to them. The next comes up. May we. therefore, ask you to 



mail from them enclosed $1.00. please consider and act favorably upon 



: The reason I named the page was. *^eltTietfng?^°'''" resolution at your 



when I came to investigate, after get- Thanking you in advance for such ac- 



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