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TiENTH ANNUAL. REPORT OP THE 



tion, and for your kind reply, we beg to 

 remain, 



■Ver>' truly yours, 

 (Signed) NORMAN WALKER, 

 Chairman, Committee on Meetings and 

 Conventions. 

 NW-JGB. 



Mr. Stone — Later we received an- 

 other letter just like this. We should 

 have answered it but we let it go un- 

 answered until we got another letter 

 like it, and then we got the follow- 

 ing letter still later: 



World's Panama Exposition Company, 



New Orleans Logical Point, Hub of the 



Western Hemisphere, 1915. 



New Orleans, Oct. 1, 1910. 

 Illinois State Bee Keepers Association, 



Spr/ngfleld, 111.: 



My Dear Sir — ^We have already ad- 

 dressed you two communications in re- 

 gard to our proposed World's Panama 

 Exposition, to be held In New Orleans in 

 1915, soliciting at the hands of your or- 

 ganization the adoption of a resolution 

 endorsing the Crescent City as the "Logi- 

 cal Point" for this celebration. 



The time is drawing near when Con- 

 gress will decide this momentous question 

 and the presentation of these resolutions 

 will be an important factor in our favor. 



May we not ask your organization to 

 adopt resolutions favoring the Crescent 

 City, and thus add to our strength? 



Soliciting your prompt attention and 

 early advice, we beg to remain, 

 Tours very truly, 

 (Signed) NORMAN WALKER, 

 Chairman, Committee on Meetings and 



Conventions. 



O'S-PHL. 



Mr. Stone — ^Shall I read this resolu- 

 tion? 



Pres. Moore — I think it would be 

 w-ell to take that up a little later. 



Mr. Stone — If there is a Committee 

 appointed to act on this they can have 

 the resolution. 



iMr. Diebold — Have they prepared 

 resolutions for us to pass on? 



Pres. Moore — Tes, they sent a copy 

 of the resolution they would like to 

 have us ipass. 



Mr. Stone reads the resolution, as 

 follows: 



Resolution 1. 



Whereas, The Officials and Engineers in 

 charge of the constructioin of the Panama 

 Canal have announced that It will be 

 completed and open for Commerce in 1915 ; 

 and 



Whereas, Practically the unanimous 

 sentiment of the President of the United 

 States and other officials, the members of 

 Congress and the American people gen- 

 erally, is that no celebration of the com- 

 pletion of the Canal can produce such im- 

 portant and beneficial results as the hold- 

 ing of an exposition, where the people of 

 the world will be brought closer together 



through this imion of the Atlantic and 

 Pacific, the East and West, and will meet 

 and confer with each other and exhibit 

 the resources and products of their several 

 countries; be it 



Resolved, That we cordially approve the 

 Idea of a World's Panama Exposition and 

 pledge it our moral support and assist- 

 ance; be It further 



Resolved, That we see in New Orleans 

 the "logical point" for such Exposition by 

 reason of Its proxmity to the Canal and 

 because It is the gateway for a large part 

 of the Import and export commerce of 

 these United States with the countries 

 south of us and with the World, easily 

 reached from all points In this Continent, 

 North, Central and South America; in all 

 respects situated to hold a great World's 

 Exposition, and we therefore endorse New 

 Orleans as the best point at which to hold 

 the World's Panama Exposition, in honor 

 of the completion of the Canal. 



Mr. Stone, Secretary, continuing to 

 read report: 



We sent out 1200 blank applications 

 for membership early in the year, 

 using the mailing list of the American 

 Bee Journal, through the kindness and 

 assistance of its editor, Mr. York. His 

 list had about 900 bee keepers' names 

 in this State. Then comparing our 

 own list with it we found 300 m'ore 

 names not on his list, w^hieh made up 

 the 1200. 



Since we have followed this plan of 

 increasing our membership, it seems 

 to be growing larger each year, though 

 there is a good deal of tedious work 

 in comparing lists of names. But it 

 takes work to win, and if our gain 

 next year equals this, we will pass the 

 300 mark in membership. 



We also sent out 1,200 blank peti- 

 tions to the legislature for a Foul 

 Brood Law, and up to date have re- 

 ceived back signed petitions from 23 

 districts out of the 51; total number of 

 signers, 376. We ought to have 3,000. 



District 35 took the lead with 59. 



A call came from our foul brood in- 

 spector for more blank petitions and 

 we had a second thousand printed. 



We must not fail to give credit to 

 our foul brood inspector and his as- 

 sistants for adding several members 

 each to our list; one of them as many 

 as 7 or 8, 



This morning (Nov. 17, 1910) we got 

 in a list of 20 names; these do not 

 count in our membership for this year; 

 it would put our membership up to 

 almost 300 if it counted for this year; 

 this gives us a good start for next year. 



At our last convention a picture of 

 the members in attendance was solic- 



