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Show NO MONEY IN THE BUSINESS. Why Big Company Gave Up the Culture Cul-ture of Microbe. A couple of years ago a rich company com-pany was organized In New York to sell microbe cultures to wine and beer makers, bread makers, cheete (makers, etc. At first It looked like a highly profitable business proposition. Many manufacturers Became Interested. Some took stock. They saw millions In it. The chemist of one great brewing brew-ing concern was frank enough to say: "Gentlemen, you have a wonderful business, tut there Is no money In It. I have bought one tube of cultures from you for $20. I shall never need any more. I can now do my own breeding. That tube will produce billions, bil-lions, trillions, quadrillions In an Incredibly In-credibly short time; therefore, so far as our brewery Is concerned, we have an Inexhaustible supply. You may sell every brewery In the country $20 worth, nnd that will be the end of your business." m The chief promoter of the microbe business said tho other day: "I soon learned that the brewing Industry of the United States Is controlled by chemists. You cannot reach the proprietors pro-prietors of breweries except through their chemlstH, who are their safeguards. safe-guards. I had to quit selling microbes or starve to death. I could not eat the things." |