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Dr. Mason moved that a committee be appointed to bring the matter 

 before the Board . Carried . 



J. M. Hambaugh was appointed as that committee, and drew up the 

 following petition : 



To the Honorable Board of Agriculture of the State of Illinois : 



The members of the Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Society, in convention 

 assembled, do hereby respectfully petition your honorable body to allot, for 

 a creditable exhibit of the products and appliances of the apiary, a just pro- 

 portion of the amount appropriated by the Illinois State Legislature for the 

 display of the agricultural products of this State at the Columbian Exposi- 

 tion to be held in the city of Chicago in 1893. 



J. M. Hambaugh, Chairman. 

 Adopted. 



THE GRADING OF HONEY. 



The committee appointed to formulate a set of rules for the grading of 

 honey was called upon to report, when it was found that not even two mem- 

 bers could be found who could agree. It seemed a hopeless task to try to 

 do anything. Finally each member was called upon to read over the rules 

 for grading honey which had been presented to the committee. After some 

 discussion the rules given by Mr. Baldridge seemed to meet with the least 

 opposition, and the President suggested that Mr. Baldridge read the first 

 section and the convention would discuss and vote upon it. By going step 

 by step it might be possible to agree upon something — enough to make a 

 start . The point upon which there seemed to be the greatest disagreement 

 was whether the word white should be applied when describing the first 

 grade, it being argued, with a good show of reason, that there were first 

 grades of buckwheat and Spanish-needle honey, as well as of clover and 

 basswood . On the other hand it was asserted that by common consent it 

 came to be understood that only white honey was first-class. The following 

 are the rules as they were amended and finally adopted by the convention, 

 for honey in the comb, crated : 



First Grade — All sections to be well filled; combs straight, of even thick- 

 ness, and firmly attached to all four sides; both wood and comb to be 

 unsoiled by travel-stain or otherwise; all the cells sealed and the honey of 

 uniform color. 



Second Grade — All sections well filled, but with combs uneven or 

 crooked, detached at the bottom, or with but few cells unsealed; both wood 

 and comb unsoiled by travel-stain, or otherwise, and the honey of uniform 

 color. 



Third Grade — Sections with wood or comb, or both, travel stained or 

 otherwise much soiled, and such as are less than three-fourths filled with 

 honey, whether sealed or unsealed; and crates containing two or more colors. 



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