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or two years at most. A young man 

 spends four years in medical college, 

 gets a little hospital experience and 

 possibly treats you when your life is in 

 danger. Surely he has had to learn 

 more in his brief preparation to care 

 for a complex human organism than the 

 bee-keeper has to know to produce 

 honey." 



If it is not considered out of place, 

 another quotation may be given: 



"The advances of past years in bee- 



extension work of various institutions. 



"If this work can be enlarged ade- 

 quately there is a great future for the 

 industry along commercial lines and it 

 is to the interest of every person en- 

 gaged in any branch of bee-keeping 

 activities to further this development." 



Everyone interested in any kind of 

 instruction work in bee-keeping is 

 aware that some bee-keepers disap- 

 prove any plan by which more persons 

 may be induced to keep bees. Just as 



DR. PHILLIPS. 



keeping have come chiefly through an 

 exchange of ideas and results through 

 the journals and books on this subject 

 and more recently by the distribution of 

 bulletins from the Federal and State 

 laboratories devoted to bee-keeping. 



"It is now coming to be generally ac- 

 cepted that these educational agencies 

 are not entirely sufficient and also that 

 the industry is worthy of more recog- 

 nition. Several agricultural colleges 

 are now teaching bee-keeping and it is 

 being included to a limited extent in the 



soon as such work is suggested, the 

 ogres Overstocking and Overproduc- 

 tion are called in as allies of the ob- 

 jector. 



It is somewhat difficult at times to 

 have patience with such objections but, 

 since they persistently appear, it is 

 desirable to consider them. 



It is frequently estimated that nine- 

 tenths of the nectar dries up and is 

 lost, for want of bees to collect it, but 

 this estimate is probably made either 

 from caution or from lack of informa- 



