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up and the ground was again gone over. As the experiment station man 

 was about to leave without finding any apparent reason for failure, he 

 chanced to see a stream of bees coming in one of the orchards from 

 underneath a pile of swale. Further investigation revealed a fallen 

 log, sunken in the damp land, sheltering a large colony of bees. It is 

 needless to say in which orchard the log was. Immediately bees were 

 secured for the failing orchard; the owner then netted $3,800 on his 

 crop. 



It has not been my purpose to give you many details. To do this I 

 might have to write a book and by the time it was written, I might 

 doubtless find that new investigations had revealed new results. This 

 is a period of discovery and change, but I hope my attempted biological 

 fundamentals will hold. For example, first, cross-pollination would seem 

 to be the usual policy in nature, resulting as I have said, among other 

 things, in greater strength, vigor and beauty. Second, that all life is 

 subject to a frequency of fluctuation. Therefore, it is not desirable in 

 fruit or vegetable growing, to depend upon the services of bees over 

 which you have no control, but rather to maintain controlled apiaries 

 especially for either horticultural or market gardening, pollinating 

 services. Third, these two biological principles are further substantiated 

 and applied by the practical grower, who is more and more dependent 

 upon bees in his field to meet important competition. There is, there- 

 fore, a good reason for keeping more bees if you wish more fruit. 



With these general remarks, it is my purpose to turn to the lantern 

 slides and show you some of the results of the utilization of bees in this 

 horticultural work. Therewith, I would show you other slides, of the 

 apicultural work in Massachusetts, something of the natural history of 

 the honey bee and as a general interest feature, a few of the prominent 

 apiaries of the country. 



BEES AS A NUISANCE. 



J. D. GusTiN, Kansas City, Mo. 



Increasing population, greater dissemination of knowledge, and the 

 development and specialization of industries, pursuits, and occupations 

 combine to add constantly to the complexity of the relations of indivi- 

 duals, and to call, from time to time, for the readjustment of the af- 

 fairs of men to meet changed and changing conditions. In no other 

 branch of the law is the ingenuity of the courts more heavily taxed in 

 this manner than in the subject of nuisances, where, from the very na- 

 ture of the subject, first principles, rather than specific legislative en- 

 actment, must always exert a controlling influence. The lawmaking 

 power may, as occasion seems to require, declare that particular objects, 

 actions, omissions, etc., shall be nuisances, either with or without re- 

 gard to attending conditions or circumstances, but the application of 

 such statutes is necessarily so limited that the general law of the sub- 

 ject is not affected. 



