What are the first two associations on your list?

  Trying to discover exactly when the Vermont Beekeepers Association was 
started, we found the following at the Sheldon Museum and an article 
titled Vermont Beekeeping Before 1900 by Enoch H. Tompkins, President of 
the Eastern Apicultural Society and published in the December 1961 issue 
of the American Bee Journal.  Here is a paragraph that you will find 
pertinent.

"The Addison County Beekeepers' Association was organized at Middlebury 
in 1875, the second agricultural association in Vermont. The 
organization meeting was at Dr. Henry Kingsley's where a constitution 
was signed by all members present. The dues were twenty-five cents, 
except ladies who were admitted free.  This association has been active 
ever since. The name was changed to the Champlain Valley Beekeepers' 
Association in 1879. Then seven years later it became the Vermont 
Association. Membership dues were increased to fifty cents in 1892."

> The Illinois State Beekeepers Association, the third oldest in the nation, will celebrate its 120th Anniversary this year.

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