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With these assurances we ought to be well satisfied that when the ap- 

 portionment is made (probably next December), the bee-keeping industry of 

 Illinois will receive its due share of the funds appropriated by the State. It 

 will be well for bee- keepers in every district to write to their vice presidents 

 next October, to keep it before their minds, and let them know that we are 

 confiding in their sense of honor and justice, confirmed by the promises ol 

 many of their members, and expect our due share of the public funds, so as 

 to be able to make an exhibit which shall be a credit to the State, as well as 

 the entire northwest. 



Notwithstanding every effort that could be made, and the pressure 

 brought to bear by Mr. Hambaugb, our esteemed Thomas G. Newman, of 

 the American Bee Journal, and myself, there has been nothing accom- 

 plished, and no award made us, to redeem the pledges of the State Board 

 of Agriculture to the State Bee-Keepers. 



Their plea is that the rules and regulations of the National Commission 

 excludes manufactured articles from our State Building ; and now after the 

 long, tedious and untiring efforts of Mr. Hambaugh and others, should we 

 be ignored by the State Board, from the category of industries, of our great 

 State, we trust the blame will be placed where it belongs . Mr. Hambaugh 

 has a voluminous amount of letters received, during the winter and spring, 

 relative to the matter, and at this late date our prospects of recognition are 

 very vague ; though one more effort will probably be made . 



James A. Stone, Secretary, 



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