Gleanings in bee culture . ording to the amount of landso occupied. This land-owners right shouldbe only for bees to be kept on his premises,and strictly nontransferable. In nearly alllocalities, after all who cared to had availedthemselves of this right, the bee-range wouldstill be far from being fully occupied. Willany one tell me how the rights of anybodywould be infringed on if the governmentshould take possession of these unusfd rightsand dispose of them, by auction or otherwise,for the general good? Details are unneces-sary; but 1 woulil suggest that for a bee-rangethe congressional town
Gleanings in bee culture . ording to the amount of landso occupied. This land-owners right shouldbe only for bees to be kept on his premises,and strictly nontransferable. In nearly alllocalities, after all who cared to had availedthemselves of this right, the bee-range wouldstill be far from being fully occupied. Willany one tell me how the rights of anybodywould be infringed on if the governmentshould take possession of these unusfd rightsand dispose of them, by auction or otherwise,for the general good? Details are unneces-sary; but 1 woulil suggest that for a bee-rangethe congressional township, six miles square,into which many of our States are divided,would be a very good size. If it werethought best to limit the number of coloniesthe lease-holder might keep in his one apiary,this might be fixed by a commission for thepurpose, and it might be well to providethat no commercial apiary should be startedwithin a fixed distance from an establishedapiary in any adjoining range. 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 168. CO-OPERATIVE EXPERIMENTS. The Ontario Agricultural and Experiment-al Union, which consists of students, ex-students, and the staff, past and present, ofthe Ontario Agri ultural College, Guelph,Onr,., was inaugurated during the studentyears of the writer, 1880. The most impor-tant work is co-operative experiments inagriculture, and it has steadily grown until,during the past year, it had 5700 experi-menters. Of it. Prof. W. M. Hays, AssistantSecretary of Agriculture for the UnitedStates, said in his address (for he honoredthe convention Dec. 11 and 13 with hispresence), the expeiimental union was rec-ognized, in the great work which it wasachieving, by all prominent agriculturistsand stock-raisers throughout the • experimental union was one of the verybrightest stars in the whole realm of agricul-tuial organization thxoughout the world. APICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS PAST AND FU-TURE. It was this union which, under the direc-tion of the writer, carried o
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