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deal ill counterfeit money at all. All they get 

 in the above transaction is clear gain; for. of 

 course, any party so lacking in conscience as to 

 send for counterfeit money would never make 

 any complaint, nor undertake to expose them 

 as frauds. Some very good people have said, 

 "Let them go on with their scheme; serves 

 them right." In one sense this may be true. 

 lint there may be young people and thought- 

 less people who are so lacking in conscience as 

 to have a desire to get and pass countei'feit 

 money, if they felt sure they could do it without 

 detection. The time was when our nation suf- 

 fered much fi'om countf^'feit money, but there 

 is comparatively little of it of late years. Men 

 who possess sufficient skill to make a successful 

 imitation can usually make enough honestly, 

 so there is little temptation for entering into a 

 business that ends so quickly and so surely in 

 tbe penitentiary. We hereby give notice to the 

 postal authorities to stop delivering mails to the 

 above address, if any mails have been delivered. 



With Replies from our best Authorities on Bees. 



Question 188. I have 75 colonies of bees. 

 Other interests oblige ineto movetothevlUnfje 

 of P., wliere Mr. N. lias (m (tpidry of 120 colo- 

 nies. He says there is no more pasturage than 

 will support his bees, and tliinks I ought not to 

 bring mine there. If I put mn bees on my own 

 lot, I thinli I have as good rigltt there as he. 

 Am I right or wrong f 



Legally you may be right; but morally you 

 are wrong. 

 Vermont. N. W. A. E. Manum. 



You have legal right on your property, but it 

 will be of no material benefit to you. and very 

 detrimental to N. 



Louisiana. E. C. P. L. Viaixon. 



He has priority of location; and if you move 

 near him you will only injure him without do- 

 ing yourself any good. 



Illinois. N. W. Dadant & Son. 



An answer to this question may be found in 

 the 12th verse of the 7th chapter of Matthew. 

 If you don't read the Bible, just try it once. 



Ohio. N. W. A. B. Mason. 



You are perfectly i-ight. I verily lielieve that 

 there is room enough in your neighborhood for 

 several more besides you, even if our good 

 friend Dr. Miller savs, " I don't know." 



Ohio. S. W. ■ C. F. MuTH. 



You're right. There's no law against it; but 

 as civilization advances. I think there will be; 

 and if I were in your place I think I should be 

 a little ahead of the age and do just as I would 

 if the laws were all right. 



Illinois. N. C. C. Miixer. • 



If the premises are correct, that there are 

 already as many bees in the village as can 

 be supported, then certainly you don't wish to 

 keep any there, as you would be a loser. If the 

 pasturage will support more, you can proliably 

 compromise the matter. 



New York. C. P. H. Elwooii. 



You have not as good right as he has: he has 

 the right of priority. I would not be afraid of 

 your bees, if I ha^d the larger apiary. It is the 



nature of a bee to fly a distance from its hive 

 in search of honey; and my observation causes 

 me to believe that a large apiary, many times, 

 will whip out a small one. 

 Illinois. N. W. C. Mrs. L. Harkison. 



If Mr. N.'s statement is true, you are both 

 right and wrong— legally right and morally 

 wrong. You would do yourself a wrong with 

 nothing to compensate you except knowing you 

 had done vour neighbor N. also an unkindness. 



Ohio. N. W. H. R. Boardman. 



I see no reason why you should not share the 

 honey harvest, though he is correct in his first 

 assertion; and if he depends on his bees it 

 would show a very kind heart for you to leave 

 him the Held. "It is more blessed to give than 

 to receive." Happy the man that proves it. 



Michigan. C. A. J. Cook. 



Legally, right; but. candidly, get yourself 

 just as near in the skin, thought, and position 

 of N. as you possibly can, and tell us whether 

 you would then think and feel as you do now. 

 If not, then the doctrine of "do unto others as 

 you would have them do unto you" will not be 

 your doctrine should you move your bees to the 

 village of P. 



New York. C. G. M. Dooltttle. 



If I were obliged to move into town, as you 

 say, if I could leave the bees where they are I 

 Vvould do it if the distance were not too great, 

 rather than put them on a locality ah'eady oc- 

 cupied to the extent you say it is in town. But 

 as to the right of your taking bees there with 

 you. you have as much right as he has. But if 

 you both keep all the bees you have on the one 

 locality, you will be overstocked and won't get 

 much honey. 



Wisconsin. S. W. E. France. 



Legally you are entirely right; but for finan- 

 cial and moral reasons I "would not take them 

 there. Mr. N. does not want them in his field, 

 because he knows it materially cuts down his 

 pro-rata surplus yield. Now, Vvhile your 75 are 

 cutting down the yield of his 120, what will his 

 120 be doing to your 75? Your interests are 

 mutual. You may have a different opinion in 

 regard to this, but my opinion coincides with 

 Mr. N.'s. 



Michigan. S. W. James Heddon. 



Y"ou are right, my friend. You have a legal 

 right to go and share the pasture \\\W\ N.: and 

 the next man has a right to share it with both 

 of you. Nothing but self-interest seems to cut 

 any figure in the matter. I know just how to 

 sympathize with N. I have been in his place, 

 and gently remonstrated with the man who 

 was coming, and' argued priority of location, 

 etc., but he couldn't see it. He said it was a 

 free country; air. water, sunshine, dew, and 

 honey, are free. So many thought that way 

 that I was obliged last spring to make an in- 

 vestment of about §30(X) and move my bees 30 

 miles or share a range with others with twice 

 too many bees on it. 



Wisconsin. S. W. S. I. Freeborn. 



Well, there! if this isn't a personal-liberty 

 question! John B. Finch said pfosonal liberty 

 ends when that fellow's fist comes in contact 

 with the end of his nose. Certainly, you have 

 the right to place your 75 colonies right over 

 the fence, next to Mr. N.; but, is it justice? 

 Just nn^erse the case. How would you like to 

 have N. move his 120 colonies of bees out into 

 your ficild? I think it would be justice for both 

 of you to look the field over, and then locate 



