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has a perfect foul brood law or perfect foul brood inspection. To 

 prophesy about things in the future of bee-keeping? There is one more 

 thing that I would like to bring out; in fact there are many things that 

 have been touched upon here. One thing is the matter of instruction 

 in bee-keeping. The bee industry, my dear friends, we call it bee 

 industry; I do not want to offend my friend Dr. Phillips, but I do main- 

 tain the time has come when our industry ceases to be a baby industry. 

 We have had in times past, our steel trust which was a baby trust in 

 the early 80's to such an extent the Government had to give it a milk 

 bottle in the form of appropriations to keep it alive. Our railroads 

 were fed on Government milk; for a while our Standard Oil Company, 

 in the beginning, had to be nourished to life by a kind Government; 

 it is surprising how those babies grow and hoAV they develop and how 

 big they get. 



Our dairy industry — I remember in our dairy industr^^ there was 

 a time when the .dairy industry was just a toy; you remember in the 

 early 80's what butter we used to get in those days. On Sunday when 

 the farmers came into church, they churned Saturday night, brought 

 in the week's production; all the town shipped in their butter; one 

 person in a little round roll wrapped in paper or in cheesecloth; another 

 one made a brick out of it, wrapped in different kinds of containers,* 

 and they took out tea and sugar and coffee; the grocerman put the 

 butter in tubs and mixed it up and sent it to market next day, and 

 this was the great dairy industry. Now look at it — with the butter 

 production soaring higher and higher. What an industry it has be- 

 come? How that baby has grown until the marketing of butter alone 

 amounts to millions and millions of dollars. 



The remarkable thing with all these babies is this: When the 

 birds or robins hatch in the nest they get to be a certain size before 

 they fly; one day they crawl up on the edge of the nest and look out 

 on the bright world, open out their wings, and they try to fly; they 

 fall down but they have accomplished their object. They have escaped 

 from the nest and have begun to shift for themselves. 



In baby industry when they get to be real big they begin to emanci- 

 pate themselves. But in bee-keeping — the baby stays with the mother 

 and wants to be nursed by the mother when they are four and five 

 years old. For instance: In our universities we have a department 

 of botany; we study different flowers and plants; all those plants are 

 the legitimate subject of that, branch of botany; we have zoology, 

 and study all the different animals; we have mineralogy and study 

 the minerals which all belong to the family of the mineralogist; some 

 of those plants of the mineralogist gradually grow big and begin to 

 develop into an industry, and when they begin to become independent 

 and able to fly, they jump the parent nest of botany and zoology and 

 branch out for themselves as a new branch. 



Now for instance, a cow belongs to Zoology, and when it comes to 

 the dairy and cheese and cream factory and the production of milk 

 and butter, why the cow steps out of zoology and becomes an industry 

 by itself, which is called the dairy industry. In the same way, the 

 steers belong to zoology, and they are shipped to the stock yards in 

 Chicago, and there we have to deal with the industry of the packers. 



