STATE BEE-KEEPERS ASSOCIATION. 



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the depot Friday night? We will support everything you 

 bee-keepers ask for." 



Why did he oppose the bill before? Because not a bee- 

 keeper had said a thing to him about it, and he was oppos- 

 ing everything asked for a State appropriation, till*he knew it 

 was just and right. You may leave it to a committee to do 

 the work, but you will have to do your part. There will a 

 time come when it will need every individual effort. 



Inspector N. E. France. 



As to the amount of the appropriation for Illinois, I am 

 sure that this will be asked: What have you done with the 

 appropriation already given? What have you accomplished 

 with it? You will report the power and authority of your 

 inspector lacking. While I was in St. Louis, in September, 

 1904, I visited an apiary in that city, and found infected col- 

 onies contracted from this State. Now that ought not to be 

 the case. Bees in Illinois have become infected, and it is in- 

 fecting bees in other States. 



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