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move their bees out of town. In the 

 lu'.irt of a city or village is not the 

 l)la(v ill wliich to maintain a large 

 apiary. There is probably not a read- 

 er of these lines who would not tind 

 the bees a great annoyance if he lived 

 close to a large apiary owned by an- 

 other man. There is an important 

 point here— who owns the bees. I 

 know that I should not keep an apiary 

 where the bees were a great annoy- 

 ance to my neighbors, and I believe 

 the Association ought not to encour- 

 age or defend such a course. 



It is evident that the bees are many 

 times made an excuse for complaint, 

 when the real trouble has its origin 

 in something else. All these cases need 

 careful investigation. If the bees are 

 .simply an excuse for prosecution, then 

 I think the Association ought to de- 

 fend. 



There is still another point that 

 needs consideration: Shall members 

 be assisted in the prosecution of 

 thieves who may have stolen their 

 bees or honey? As a rule, I should 

 say, no. I think there would l)e just 

 as much reason in calling for help if 

 bees from neighboring apiaries should 

 come and rob a few colonies; or if a 

 cow or a wagon should be stolen from 

 a bee-keeper. Theft from an apiary 

 is a crime, and the ordinary law will 

 punish the offender without any as- 

 sistance from the Association. 



As a rule. I think defence should 

 lie confined to those cases in which 

 the results of the suit will exert some 

 influence upon the members as a whole 

 —like the establishing of some prec- 

 edent that will influence subsequent 

 decisions. 



I realize, however, that we can not 

 have any hard and fast rules. Much 

 nuist be left to the judgment of the 

 (General Manager; or, in important 

 cases, to a decision from the Board of 

 Directors. 



EXTRACTED 



CHANGE OF OCCUPATION. 



It is not Often Desirable, and is Usually Ac- 

 companied by Loss. 



If a man is fully decided that he 

 is engaged in an undesirable occupa- 

 tion, one for which he is unfitted, he 

 can not get out of it too soon, but if he 

 lias looked the ground all over, and 

 considered every important point, and 

 knows that, on general pi-inciples, he 

 is engaged in the occupation for which 

 he is best adapted, how foolish to 

 throw it up for something else, sim- 

 ply because of some temporary em- 

 barrassment or failure. When vis- 

 iting Mr. E. D. Townsend, of this 

 State, this summer, and talking over 

 the successes iu bee-keeping, he re- 

 marked: "I have noticed that it is 

 the stayer who wins." I am remind- 

 ed of all this by a little editorial in 

 the last issue of the Rocky. Mountain 

 Hee .Journal. Our good friend More- 

 house is, withal, something of a phi- 

 losopher, and close observer, and, be- 

 sides this, knows how to put his con- 

 clusions on paper in a delightful 

 style, hence I take pleasure in copy- 

 ing two paragraphs from this editor- 

 ial. Bro. Morehouse says: 



"Beekeeping, like all other rural 

 occupations, has its ups and downs, 

 its flood tides and its ebb tides, its 

 seasons of success and failure. Noth- 

 ing about it is absolutely certain. But 

 the man or woman who has a genu- 

 ine love for it, whose enthusiasm is 

 not dampened by failures and disap- 

 pointments, but who makes it the sub- 

 ject of hard toil and study and sticks 

 to it with the grim determination of 

 winning, will certainly reap .satisfac- 

 tory rewards. 



And withal, the bee-keeper who. in 

 this kaleidoscopic age of progress, 



