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proceedings of the grand divisions should be stenographically reported 

 the papers read and speeches made should be printed and each member 

 should have a copy. With these the other proceedings after being 

 thoroughly edited should be published. The supply business, the 

 package business, and the queen breeding business should be kept 

 track of and sharks and charlatans gently but firmly eliminated. 

 Legal proceedings in matters involving bee-keeping as a business 

 should be taken care of and the members protected. A fund should 

 be set aside to protect out yards from robbers by offering rewards or 

 employing detectives where necessary for that purpose. A j&re insur- 

 ance plan could well be added. General advertising of honey by 

 scientific advertising in magazines circulating among the people who 

 would be customers in order to keep the market we now have would 

 be quite an important activity. In short there are a hundred things 

 that such an organization devoting its entire energy to the business . 

 end of bee-keeping could well undertake to the profit of bee-keepers 

 as a class. Particularly when the authority and the finances are 

 centralized so that responsibihty is not scattered. - The organization 

 of this Central Governing Body should be precisely that of a great 

 business corporation with interests and activities nation wide. The 

 bee-keeping industry is a great business, it has for its object the util- 

 ization of a great natural resource, and bee-keepers should recognize 

 this and take their place among the other producers of the country. 

 All of these have their associations or have pooled their efforts in one 

 great corporation caring for their interests. Why do we hesitate 

 to do what common intelligence says is for our best interests and in 

 fact is necessary for the preservation and continuance of our business. 



DR. MILLER REFERS TO McEVOY TREATMENT. 



Dr. C. C. Miller. — I wish I knew something that none of the 

 rest of you knew (laughter) ; I would like to tell you something worth 

 your hearing. I expected something like this, I am just so conceited, 

 and I was thinking what I wanted to talk about, and I wanted to 

 say something that I thought might be of use, I would like to be of 

 use in the Avorld as long as I am in it, and I think I know one thing 

 that perhaps you know about, but you haven't thought about it as 

 much as you ought to, and that is one plan of treating foul brood, 

 American foul brood. Nothing new, and yet I venture to say that there 

 are some here who have not thought enough about it to really know 

 that there is such a thing as that particular plan of treatment. I refer 

 to the plan of treatment in the fall, after brood-rearing is all over. 

 It comes from Canada — who is that man over in Canada that had a 

 good deal to do with foul brood? McEvoy, yes, that is the name. Wil- 

 liam McEvoy quietly during the last years of his life recommended 

 that when brood-rearing was over, then the combs should be all taken 

 away from a diseased colony and it should be supplied with sealed 

 combs of honey, give it wholesome honey, and then you would have 

 the full treatment, just as good as you would have to take it in the 

 time when the hives are full of brood, and you would have no loss of 

 anything except the loss of the combs, that you must have in any case. 



