404 OVERSTOCKING. 



The Prussian Government, through its Department of 

 Agriculture, furnishes annually a number of persons from 

 different sections of the kingdom, with the means of acquir- 

 ing a practical knowledge of Dzierzon's system ; while the 

 Bavarian Government has prescribed instruction in the theory 

 and practice of bee-culture, according to Dzierzon's system, 

 as a part of the regular course of studies in the Teachers' 

 Seminaries of that country. 



The lime has hardly come when the attention of any of 

 our Stale authorities can be attracted to the importance of 

 bee-culture. It is only of late that they have seemed to 

 manifest any peculiar interest in promoting the advancement 

 of agricultural pursuits. A Department of Agriculture 

 ought to have been established, years ago, by the National 

 Government at Washington. A National Society to promote 

 the agricultural interests of the country, has recently been 

 established, and much may be hoped from its wisdom and 

 energy. Until some disinterested tribunal can be established, 

 before which all inventions and discoveries can be fairly 

 tested, honest men will suffer, and ignorance and imposture 

 will continue to flourish. Lying advertisements and plaus- 

 ible misrepresentations of brazen-faced impostors, will still 

 drain the purses of the credulons, while thousands, disgusted 

 with the horde of impositions which are palmed off upon the 

 community, will settle down into a determination to try noth- 

 ing new. A society before which every thing, claiming to 

 be an improvement in rural economy, eould be fairly tested, 

 would undoubtedly be shunned by ignorant and unprincipled 

 men, who now find it an easy task to procure any number 

 of certificates, but who dread nothing so much as honest 

 and intelligent investigation. The reports of such a society, 

 after the most thorough trials and examinations, would in- 



