. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Director E)itcrson T. .Ihbott. course. Since that time i t has been completel)' negrlect- ed, as it is in most other States. When the mat- ter is presented to those in authority, the excuse is made that there is no money to even pay the board and trav- eling' expenses of a competent man to present the subject, yet money is found to secure teachers i n every other branch of agricul- ture, and every two years our legisla- ture is askt to make large appropria- tions for the benefit of the agricultural school and the ex- periment station. There is never a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Director E)itcrson T. .Ihbott. course. Since that time i t has been completel)' negrlect- ed, as it is in most other States. When the mat- ter is presented to those in authority, the excuse is made that there is no money to even pay the board and trav- eling' expenses of a competent man to present the subject, yet money is found to secure teachers i n every other branch of agricul- ture, and every two years our legisla- ture is askt to make large appropria- tions for the benefit of the agricultural school and the ex- periment station. There is never a hint of any of it be- ing used for the ad- vancement of api- culture, notwithstanding the fact that there is a large num- ber of bee-keepers in the State who are taxt to help advance the interests of other industries. At the present session the legislature will be askt to appropriate 530,000 to advance the interests of horticulture, but there is no thought of any money being used to promote bee-keeping, notwithstanding the fact that the horticulturist is largely dependent upon the bee-keepers, or at least the bees, for the perfect develop- ment of his fruit. I would suggest to the bee-keepers of this and other States that they now begin to make themselves heard with regard to this matter. Taxation without representation made some serious trouble a long time ago, and we give due notice to the powers that be that it will not be our fault if it does not do the same thing again. We herewith begin a campaign in the interest of the proper recognition of api- culture at every experiment station and in ever^- agricultu- ral college of the land, and we ask all editors who believe that bee-keepers have some rights, to join us in this import- ant work. There is no rural industry about which people in gen- eral have so little practical knowledge, and man}', even of the graduates of agricultural colleges, could not even tell a queen from a drone, and most of them are as absolutely ig- nora
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