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progressive bee-keeper is filled with doubt. The man who stands still 

 in the bee-keeping industry is perfectly satisfied with his methods. 

 He is perfectly satisfied with the methods that he pursued and his 

 father pursued and his greatgrandfather pursued, perhaps, in the 

 bee-keeping business. But the man who grows in the bee business is 

 never satisfied with the information which he has. He is always seeking 

 new light and is always gathering together new observations and formu- 

 lating from those scientific laws on which bee-keeping practice is 

 based. 



Now, during the past ten or fifteen years I have seen men start 

 out with a few colonies who have sold their crops for larger amounts 

 during the past year than Miss Fowls dare give. There are lots of 

 bee-keepers who sold their 1918 crop for larger amounts than Miss 

 Fowls stated. And those men are characterized by a constant dis- 

 satisfaction with their methods of practice. And I think that is the 

 kenynote to success, not to be satisfied with the practice we now have, 

 and always to call in question everything that we have been doing 

 constantly to see whether it is just exactly right; to make new obser- 

 vations, formulate new data and work out new methods; and we have 

 a lot of men that are meeting wdth wonderful success doing that thing. 



Now, as far as opportunity is concerned, if you will let me refer 

 to one other thing perhaps that will emphasize the point that Miss 

 Fowls made. During the past year and a half the Bureau of Entomology 

 has had perhaps thirty men doing extension Avork in bee-keeping. 

 Very few of those men are left. I do not think it was because they 

 were not treated exactly right, or anything of that kind, I don't think 

 that was the primary consideration. But those men have seen an 

 opportunity, as soon as they got out and had a look at locations and 

 saw the wonderful opportunities that were being uncovered, they 

 said they simply could not stand the pressure. 



We have some good men now; there are two or three of them hang- 

 ing around here now, and we don't want to get rid of those men. But 

 we are going to lose them, there is not anj^ question in the world about 

 that. Those men are seeing the opportunities in commercial bee- 

 keeping, and they are seeing opportunities which are absolutely real, 

 which the bee journals and the bee books and so forth dare not give 

 in full for fear of misrepresentation. And so the sermon I would like 

 to preach in the matter is, not to be satisfied with the method of practice 

 which you have found moderately satisfactory. (Applause.) 



A NEW ORGANIZATION OF BEE-KEEPERS. 



(By Mr. Colin P. Campbell of Michigan.) 

 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Convention: It is 

 with some temerity that I stand before you this morning to suggest to 

 you something about organization. I have been familiar in my past 

 experience with a great many different sorts of organizations among 

 varying industries. I do not mean to say by that that I have been 

 interested exclusively in organizaing, for I haven't. It has been a 

 sort of a diversion with me, perhaps. But it seems to me that your 

 industry needs, right now, more than anything else under your present 

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