. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 374 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL November 1910. He has been very successful in developing all phases of his work about to the limit to which it can be developed in a State which doi contain very much more beekeeping territory than one of the larger coun- ties of Ontario. He is an active and tireless nd, to use his own phrase, he "knows every gate-po»i in the ; Dr. Gates is a prominent figure in United States beekeeping, 1" past president of the National Bee- keeper's Association. Xor is he un- known to Ontario beekeepers, as he has assist
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 374 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL November 1910. He has been very successful in developing all phases of his work about to the limit to which it can be developed in a State which doi contain very much more beekeeping territory than one of the larger coun- ties of Ontario. He is an active and tireless nd, to use his own phrase, he "knows every gate-po»i in the ; Dr. Gates is a prominent figure in United States beekeeping, 1" past president of the National Bee- keeper's Association. Xor is he un- known to Ontario beekeepers, as he has assisted the writer in short courses at the Ontario Agricultural College on different occasions. When the development of the Pet- tit apiaries reached the stage that it seemed advisable for me to resign from the provincial work he came first to mind as a desirable succes- sor ; but he was not available at that time, and arrangements were made with a recent graduate of the O. A. C, who is doing excellent work in another of the United States col- leges, to come on at once and avoid any break in the continuity of the work. The delays of red tape lost us the opportunity, however, and Dr. Gates was approached. It is understood that he is to be Professor of Apiculture and Provin- cial Apiarist, and that an option in beekeeping is to be established in the fourth year of the course at the O. A. C. This will enable young men who are beekeepers or who become inter- ested in beekeeping during the first year lectures on this subject to con- tinue the subject during the second and third years and specialize in it for graduation. If this plan is car- ried out it will put beekeeping on a more equal footing with other branches of agriculture at the college. This is what the writer strove for with but scant recognition during his term of office. Many reforms only come by revolution. Opportunities for beekeeping spe- cialists were never better anywhere than in Ontario at present. While there is much
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