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of rocks that I invite the Rambler over to 

 help me get out, and he may take one of 

 them home with him if we succeed. I have 

 mine in a little box with a movable cover; 

 and it makes me feel master of the situa- 

 tion, when I wish to examine them, to walk 

 up boldlj' without smoker, lift the cover, 

 and do to them as I please. 



San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, May 29. 



THE BEE IN LAW. 



Statutory Enactments. — Article 7. 



BY R. D. FISHER. 



1. Preface. 



2. Offense against Private Property; Un- 

 lawful Enticement of Bees. 



3. Bees, Property in. 



4. Bees, ivith Hives and Honey, Exempt 

 from AtfacJimcnt and Execution. 



5. Poison — Exposing with Intent to De- 

 stroy Bees — Penalties. 



6. Bees, Entering Premises to Disturb or 

 Caj'ry away— Penalty. 



7. Prevention of Foul Brood amo7ig Bees 

 — Michiga?i. 



8. Same, Nebraska. 



9. Same, Colorado. 



10. Same, California. 



11. Same, Utah. 



12. Same, Wisconsin. 



1. PREFACE. 



It is the purpose of this article to supply 

 in convenient form a digest of the whole 

 body of stautory law concerning bees and 

 bee-keepers. The code of laws for each 

 State is supplied only by large libraries, 

 and the wealth of material on most subjects 

 is somewhat confusing. It has been said, 

 "The difficulty is not so much to know the 

 law as to know where to find it." 



Our investigations during the prepara- 

 tion of previous chapters of this series of 

 articles have led to the belief that it will be 

 practicable to make a useful and satisfac- 

 tory digest of the law providing for the 

 propagation, preservation, and protection 

 of bees and bee-keepers. 



The concluding chapter is divided into 

 such titles as seem capable of separate 

 treatment. In so far as our investigations 

 could discover, none of the statutory law 

 referred to herein has been repealed. 



A feature of the concluding chapter which 

 seems worthy of particular mention is the 

 collection of statutes providing for inspec- 

 tion of apiaries, and penalties. However, 

 in this and other respects the work must 

 speak for itself. 



2. OFFENSE AGAINST PRIVATE PROPERTY; 



UNLAWFUL ENTICEMENT OF BEES — 



PENALTIES. 



Laws of Connecticut, 1882, Chap. 67, Cen- 

 tral Stat. 1888, Sec. 1466, provide that every 

 person who shall place upon the premises 

 of another any tub, box, or other contrivance 

 for the purpose of enticing swarms of bees 

 from the premises of their lawful owner 



shall be fined not more than seven dollars 

 or imprisoned not more than thirty days. 



3. BEES, PROPERTY IN; DEPOSITS ON LAND. 



Laws of Georgia, 1883, Chap. 2, Sec. 

 3074, Stat. 1895, provide that any deposit 

 made by wild animals on realty belongs to 

 the owner; thus honey deposited by bees in 

 a tree belongs to the owner of the tree, 

 though the bees may be hived by another; 

 so the eggs and young of birds, or the in- 

 crease of animals (bees), so long as they 

 remain unable to leave the land, belong to 

 the owner. 



4. BEES, WITH HIVES AND HONEY, EXEMPT 



FROM EXECUTION. 



Statute of Vermont, 1894, Sec. 1805, pro- 

 vides that, among the goods or chattels of a 

 debtor which are exempt from attachment 

 and execution to satisfy a judgment debt, 

 are three swarms of bees and their hives, 

 with their produce in honey, provided the 

 suit brought is not to recover payment for 

 the purchase price thereof, or for material 

 or labor expended on the same. 



5. POISON, EXPOSING WITH INTENT TO DE- 



STROY BEES — PENALTIES. 



Section 1247, Rev. Stat. Kentucky (Car- 

 roll), provides that if any person on land 

 or premises not in his possession or under 

 his control shall lay or expose any poison- 

 ous substance with intent to destroy honey- 

 bees he shall be fined not less than five nor 

 more than fifty dollars. 



Same, Code and Stat. Washington, Sec. 

 7161 (Laws '97, p. 11), provides that it 

 shall be unlawful for any person within the 

 State of Washington to willfully or mali- 

 ciously kill or poison any honey-bees. It 

 shall further be unlawful for any person 

 within said State to willfully or malicious- 

 ly place any poisonous or sweetened sub- 

 stance for the purpose of injuring honey- 

 bees in any place where such poisoned or 

 sweetened substance is accessible to honey- 

 bees within this State. Any person or per- 

 sons violating said law shall, upon convic- 

 tion thereof, be punished by fine of not less 

 than ten dollars nor more than one hundred 

 dollars. 



6. BEES, ENTERING PREMISES TO DISTURB, 

 STEAL, OR CARRY AWAY — PENALTY. 



Laws of Ohio (Rev. Stat. 1890 (S & B), 

 Sec. 6840) provide that whoever unlawfully 

 enters the premises of another for the pur- 

 pose of disturbing or carrying away any 

 box, gum, or vessel containing bees or hon- 

 ey, or injuring or carrying away any such 

 property, shall be fined not more than five 

 hundred dollars or imprisoned not more 

 than sixty days or both (60 A. 5, Sec. 1, S. 

 & S.,279). 



Same, Laws of Nebraska, 1879, Sec. 81, 

 provide that, if any person shall steal any 

 hive, box, bee-palace, or other contrivance 

 containing honey or honey-bees, the proper- 

 ty of another, of less value than thirty-five 

 dollars; or if any person shall steal honey 

 from any such receptacle or other contriv- 

 ance, or shall willfully and maliciously dis- 



