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Are Bees a Nuisance 1— Mr. B. B. Bar- 

 num of Louisville, Ky., has sent us a 

 copy of the Louisville Courier- Journal, 

 containing the following item : 



" A case of stinging by bees in Phila- 

 delphia is thus referred to by the Times: 

 ' There is no law in relation to the keep- 

 ing of bees within the city, but should 

 it become objectionable to three or 

 more neighbors, then it could be declar- 

 ed a nuisance and the owner of the 

 bees compelled to abate it. Where only 

 one person suffers, his only course for 

 redress is a civil suit for damages or a 

 bill in equity to compel the abatement 

 of the nuisance.' Here is another in- 

 stance of idiotic law-making. A nui- 

 sance is a nuisance just as much in the 

 case of one person as in that of a dozen. 

 A civil suit ought to be unnecessary in 

 any plain case?' 



Mr. Barnum writes : " If one case of 

 stinging by bees is sufficient, then good- 

 bie to bee-keeping in this city. 



The Bee Journal apiary contains 

 about seventy colonies now, having 

 sold down from over a hundred, and is 

 situated within 250 feet of a crowded 

 thoroughfare, but we have no com- 

 plaints from people being stung. Our 

 bees are all pure Italians and usually 

 as harmless as flies. Those keeping 

 bees in cities should keep only the most 

 docile kinds, and there would then be 

 no trouble about the neighbors being 

 stung by them. 



ligT Foul brood, that most dreaded of 

 all bee diseases, has again made its ap- 

 pearance in Michigan. The Southern 

 Mich. Bee-Keepers' Association held a 

 meeting at Battle Creek on the 2d. ult., 

 to take the matter into consideration, 

 and learn the best means of curing it. 

 The report of this meeting will be 

 found on page 459, and, on page 479, 

 we have given a full description of its 

 cause and cure from the German Bienen 

 Zeitung. Those who desire to know 

 anything of this disease will read it 

 with interest. 



I have obtained 4,000 lbs. of comb 

 honey and 1,000 lbs. extracted from 85 

 colonies in the spring, besides 15 swarm. 

 Gustav Ilisch. 



Hickman, Ky., Sept. 14, 1880. 



Asters — Fairs.— Can you tell me the 

 names of the enclosed specimen ? It 

 is closely allied to the golden rod, and 

 is an excellent honey plant. It blooms 

 late in autumn and even a little frost 

 will not injure it. I have just returned 

 from the county fair, where I had some 

 honey on exhibition in 2 lb. sections. 

 It attracted the attention of everyone 

 for its very neat and beautiful appear- 

 ance; 40 lbs. of this very beautiful 

 honey was taken off at one time, from 

 a 10-frame Langstroth hive. 



L. H. Pammel, Jr. 



LaCrosse, Wis., Sept. 18, 1880. 



[Yes ; this is an aster. — Ed.] 



l^ The Dominion Pet Stock Bazaar 

 is the name of a new paper published 

 in Toronto ; Mr. G. Hooper is its editor. 

 It contains eight pages, one of which 

 has items on bees. It is proposed to 

 issue it under the name of the Domin- 

 ion Apiarian Bazaar if sufficient en- 

 couragement be given it. 



H^ On the 18th. ult., an apple tree 

 near our residence, bloomed for the 

 second time this season, giving bees an 

 excellent feast. We sometimes hear of 

 such, but it rarely occurs. The foliage 

 was nipped by a frost, and fell off ; the 

 sap, remaining in the tree, caused this 

 second bloom. 



&• On page 406, of the Journal 

 for September, Mr. Bagby mentions two 

 fertile workers, sent me for dissection. 

 I have dissected only one of them, and 

 she seems to be a perfect worker in all 

 respects except in the development of 

 her ovaries. There is no spermatheca 

 to be seen.— A. J. Cook. 



igir In an exchange we see that it is 

 stated that a French traveler, M. Pierre 

 Arnoux, while traveling lately in Abys- 

 sinia, discovered in small cavities of the 

 soil a species of honey without wax, 

 produced by an insect resembling a large 

 gnat. Its composition resembles that of 

 the manna of Sinai and Kurdistan, and 

 the sugar found in 'the leaves of the 

 plane tree, as well as ordinary honey ; 

 but it is distinguished from all these by 

 the total absence of cane sugar. 



