174 First Annual Report 



Hon. James VV. Washburn, vice president for the Twentieth District, 

 wrote: 



•*I shall most willingly favor an appropriation by the Board of one-half 

 of ons per cent, of whatever appropriation maybe made, for the purposes 

 you indicate. I am strongly in favor of encouraging the bee-industry." 



Hon. B. F. VVyman, wrote as follows: 



"I should certainly favor a suitable appropriation to enable the bee- 

 keepers to make a creditable display of honey, wax and bee supplies at the 

 Columbian Fair." 



Hon. E. C. Pace expressed himself in this forcible language: 

 "From numerous communications that I have received, there seems to 

 be an impression on the minds of many that the object of the State Board of 

 Agriculture in this Columbian Exposition business was to rtz'czafe.xhibiting the 

 resources of the State, instead of making, as they desire to do, the best possible 

 exhibit. 



"One Interest in our State is exactly as near to them as another. They 

 have no pet hobbies, and I can assure you with the utmost confidence, that 

 every interest in the State will receive the consideration to which it is entitled. 

 Any one who has given the subject of bee-culture any attention, will recog- 

 nize at once its importance, and in a country like this in which I live, where 

 ii forms one of our principal products, it is unnecessary for me to assure you 

 that the interest will be carefully nurtured, and full justice done it as well as 

 every other interest in the State. The intention of the Board so far as I have 

 heard an expression, is to show off the resources of the State to the very 

 best possible advantage, and by this means to proclaim to the world what 

 we so well know, that Illinois is the greatest State in the Union." 



Hon. A. B. Hostetter, vice president for the Sixth District, wrote thus: 



"I certainly favo"- a liberal recognition of the "bee industry," and I hope 

 the appropriation will be made large enough so that not only this interest, 

 but any other not especially mentioned in the bill and worthy of recognition, 

 can have liberal encouragement and be exhibited at the World's Fair to the 

 best possible advantage, and to the credit of our whole State." 



Hon. B. Pullen, vice president, wrote thus: 



"I recognize the importance of the industry referred to, and would be 

 disposed to give it a fair and liberal recognition." 



Hon. Samuel Dysart, vice president for the Seventh District, wrote: 



"I have been in the bee-keeping business for 25 years, and I will certainly 

 use all my influence to have that industry recognized in proportion to other 

 rural pursuits." 



Hon. J. Irving Pearce, vice president of the First District, wrote thus: 



"I assure you that the bee-keeping industry for Illinois shall have every- 

 thing done for it that the law will allow us to do. You will find me the friend 

 and champion of that industry. '^ 



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