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the Illinois State Society, provided that the Illinois State Association will 

 accept of the Northwestern, and will agree to hold one meeting more if 

 necessary every year in Chicago. If the Illinois State Association accepts 

 these terms, then the election of officers of the Northwestern will be void. 

 All the old officers were re-elected. 



THE NORTH AMERICAN CONVENTION. 



C. P. Dadant, Secretary of the North American Society, urged bee- 

 keepers to attend the coming meeting at Albany, N. Y. There has probably 

 never been such a gathering of notables in the bee-keeping ranks as will 

 assemble at Albany. Several important questions are to be brought up. 

 Cheap sugar stares us in the face, and at Albany the question of securing a 

 bounty on honey will be thoroughly discussed. It was surprising, the Secre- 

 tary said, how few men worked for and secured the appropriations for the 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Society. 



THE BOUNTY ON HONEY. 



A.I. Root said that if bee-keepers had a bounty on honey the farmers 

 would want a bounty on wheat and potatoes. 



J . H . Larrabee — If the lowering of the price of sugar affects the price of 

 honey then honey producers are just as much entitled to a bounty as are the 

 sugar producers. 



R. A. Burnett — Honey is a commodity of itself. It is used for the pur- 

 poses of which sugar will not answer. I cannot see that lowering the price 

 of suffar has affected the price of honey at all. 



J. A. Green— I have frequently heard grocerymen say that the low price 

 of sugar has had an effect on the price and sale of honey . Consumers say : 

 "We can't afford to pay so much for honey when we can make a syrup so 

 much cheaper out of sugar, and we like it nearly as well." 



C. P. Dadant — There are jellies and other sauces in the manufacture of 

 which sugar is used and these sauces come into competition >vith honey. 



HONEY EXHIBITS AT THE WORLD's FAIR. 



Dr. Mason said that he had visited the chief of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment of the World's Fair and had been told that about ten feet square was 

 as much space as could be given to each State for making an apiarian 

 exhibit. This would put us on our metal to do our very best in a small 

 space. ■ \-:' 



J . M . Hambaugh — The part of the appropriation for making an apiarian 

 exhibit at the World's Fair has not yet been allotted by the Illinois State 

 Board of Agriculture . It is really important that this Society should take 

 action, or express its wishes in this direction. 



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