1901 



GLfeANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



475 



but I know that such devices for brushing 

 bees off the combs are very generally used by 

 beekeepers, especially if they are located on 

 a farm where feathers are plentiful. — Ed.] 



Bee-keepers who expect to attend the con- 

 vention of the National Bee-keepers' Associa- 

 tion at Buffalo next September are requested 

 to prepare questions and hand them in. The 

 committee, however, would be glad to have 

 these questions sent by mail in advance, so 

 that all duplicates may be stricken out. Send 

 questions to Sec. A. B. Mason, Station B, To- 

 ledo, Ohio. 



Robbing is dreaded by the beginner more 

 than by the veteran, generally. If the colo- 

 ny being robbed is weak, and has little honey, 

 it might as well be left to its fate: If it has 

 much honey it will be best to remove the bulk 

 of it to safer quarters. If the attacked colony 

 is worth saving it might be best to take it to 

 the cellar for a few days till things have be- 

 come quiet and the robbers have taken to a 

 more legitimate business. 



The W. T. Falconer Co. and The A. I. Root 

 Co. will have exhibits at the Pan-American ex- 

 position, in the Agricultural Building. These 

 exhibits will be conspicuously placed in the 

 gallery, this gallery being reached by means 

 of a traveling sidewalk. The two exhibits are 

 placed together in the same booth, as it were, 

 facing each other. Huber Root, youngest son 

 of A. I. Root, will be in attendance on our ex- 

 hibit a good portion of the time, to explain 

 the goods and answer questions He is at 

 present attending school at Oberlin, O. ; and 

 when he returns, after a little " coaching " in 

 Medina he will probably be able to receive 

 bee-keepers at the Root Co.'s exhibit at the 

 Pan-American. 



AN IMPORTANT DECISION FOR OHIO ; HONEY- 

 BEES NOT A NUISANCE. 



The following letter contains a piece of 

 news that will be read with much pleasure, 

 not only by the bee-keepers in Ohio, but by 

 those in every State where this question comes 

 up, or is liable to come up, as to whether bees 

 are a nuisance or not. Here it is; 



Mr. Root: — C. W. Carr, of this county, was indicted 

 for maintaining a public nuisance, in that he kept 

 and maintained a place for the raising of honey-bees. 

 We defended Mr. Carr, and know that you will be 

 interested in the outcome, as we have talked with bee- 

 men considerably, and read your article on the Utter 

 trial. 



We have just argued a demurrer to the court, and 

 the court held that it was not a public nuisance to 

 keep and maintain honey-bees in this State. 



It was the same old story of jealousy and malice. 

 Mr. Carr is a young man, and the head of a family 

 consisting of his widowed mother and young broth- 

 ers and sisters. His health is such that he'is unable 

 to work at hard labor, and he has managed to keep 



the family together by raising chickens, keeping 

 bees, and a small garden-patch. His neiglibors, un- 

 fortunately, were men whose business was in the use 

 of a jack-knife upon dry-goods boxe.=, and grumbling. 

 Wauseon, O., May 10. Ham, Ham & Ham. 



This is a case that had not, if I am correct, 

 been referred to the N. B. K. A. If so, I had 

 no knowledge of it. At all events, a victory 

 has been won. Mr. Carr has been vindicated, 

 and the bees declared to be not a nuisance. 

 This decision, coming as it dees, will have 

 important and far-reaching results ; and I 

 have no doubt that General Manager Secor 

 will secure a copy of the decision so that it 

 can be used in other cases that may come up 

 in this or other States. The attorneys who 

 defended the case so successfully deserve the 

 thanks of all bee-keepers. 



SNAP SHOTS ON THE FI.Y. 



Pullman car, en route to New Orleans. 



I have just come from a delightful visit with 

 J. M. Jenkins, at Wetumpka, Ala. Yester- 

 day, May 21, he met me at Montgomery, and 

 then behind his little pony we drove 14 miles 

 across the country through the pines and over 

 the cotton-plantations to Wetumpka. 



For the first time in my life I saw the cot- 

 ton-fields being plowed and cultivated by the 

 black man and his family in the good old- 

 fashioned way. Regarding the colored race, I 

 plied friend Jenkins with a thousand and one 

 questions ; but of these and the replies I shall 

 perhaps have more to say later. 



We stopped at one of Jenkins' out-yards, 

 took some pictures, and drove on. Later in 

 the day we "changed horses," this time tak- 

 ing one of Jenkins' mules, and started for the 

 out yard among the pines. On the way the 

 aforesaid mule entertained us (or me, rather) 

 with several characteristic solos. Say — he 

 could beat all the mules I ever heard in run- 

 ning up and down the scale. Such beautiful 

 zigzag trills I never heard before. You just 

 ought to have seen the black faces pop out of 

 the cabin doors. You see they (the owners of 

 the faces) knew it was Jenkins' mule, for they 

 know Jenkins and his mule all over that 

 country. Well, on arriving at the yard I took 

 some more views and some more notes, and 

 then we started back. 



Strawberries, blackberries, and dewberries 

 were in full bearing, although the season was 

 a month late. In Mr. Jenkins' orchard were 

 several peach-trees that would have some ripe 

 peaches within a week, and — 



Say — this train joggles my elbow so that I 

 shall have to give up writing for now ; but as 

 soon as I get my pictures developed and en- 

 graved I'll have more to say about the visit to 

 Mr. Jenkins. 



Later. — I'm taking some snap shots with 

 my little pocket camera. We are crossing 

 bridge after bridge, and such beautiful scene- 

 ry ! I wish you could see what I see as the 

 kaleidoscope changes. 



A NEW BEE-BRUSH. 



Mr. John Hammond, of Buena Vista, C, 

 a manufacturer of brushes of all kinds, and 

 also a bee-keeper, has sent us a sample of his 



