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want to say this to you. to say that if you hear anything detrimental 

 to the market news work, dig underneath and find out the underlying 

 causes of the criticism. 



In conclusion I would like to say that we are only your servants 

 and do the work as we interpret your needs. If we have the funds 

 available and you write in, suggesting that certain changes be made in 

 the market news work, it will be given consideration. Our action and 

 our work is entirely governed by the needs of the people as we interpret 

 them from correspondence that we have with you, and those of you 

 who are receiving bulletins, or those of you who are not receiving bul- 

 letins and wish to do so, you will receive them by writing us, but write 

 to us. Don't hesitate to write and criticise our bulletins if they are 

 not what you understand they should be. We are not in a position 

 to judge of the realtive merits of these bulletins like you are, because 

 you are the grower or the dealer, and you can see both sides in them, 

 you can see faults in them that we cannot see. But write us and we 

 will appreciate it as constructive criticism, and it will be given consider- 

 ation in our future work and we will try to improve our bulletins by 

 such criticism. It is what we need, what we want, and we will thank 

 you for it. (Applause.) . 



EXTENSION BEEKEEPING: FACT OR FICTION. 

 {Prof. E. G. Baldwin, of Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.) 



I want to thank everybody in this audience who has taken part 

 on the program or discussion for the inspiration I have received thus far. 

 I have thought, in the discussion of the subject that has been alloted 

 me for discussion, in the time that is given me, that probably you might 

 gain a little better idea of what some of the extension men are trying 

 to do if I brought to j^ou a little description of the way the thing had 

 been brought home to us, just as you have brought to us a picture of 

 some of the problems that you have been helped to solve, and so I 

 chose the subject that Mr. Kindig has just announced. 



Friends, the last four years have brought wonderful development 

 to us as a Nation— as individuals — our thoughts have taken a leap 

 forward in a manner we did not dream of four years ago. The war 

 has been like a hot house. We are standing today almost amazed 

 at the conditions that confront us — that surround us, and we hardly 

 know how we arrived, and whether we have arrived, we only know 

 that we have been seized in the relentless hand of war and swept for- 

 ward until to-day with an unrest as marked as it is hopeful; as has 

 been said in this convention, doubt and unrest that permeates every 

 branch of industry is a most hopeful sign. It was Van Dyke who said 

 that we should be content "wdth our surroundings but not satisfied with 

 our attainments. It is possible to be so satisfied that you will rot in 

 your tracks; it is possible to be so discontented that you cannot do your 

 work. But ambition, unrest, doubt if you please is a most hopeful 

 sign you are going forward; look at the development of the submarine 

 and wireless and air plane. We are apt to think we are in a new world 

 but it is only the development of the old ideas, and yet the submarine and 



