NOVEMBER 1, 1916 



to be qualified by the fact that the owner 

 must have kept "the bees in sight, or have 

 some special means of identifying the bees 

 as his, and that, when he has lost sight of 

 them, and so lost the means of identifying 

 them, they are then the property of any 

 one who lawfully secures possession of 

 them. This seems to be the first reported 

 case in the New York courts where this 



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■question has been decided; and, unless re- 

 versed upon appeal, it will stand as the 

 settled law of New York upon the questions 

 decided. The title of this ease is Brown vs. 

 Eekes, et al., reported in Vol. 160 N. Y. 

 Supp., at page 489. The complainant, a 

 beekeeper, was also a lawyer, and the court 

 suggests that no lawyer needs bees to assist 

 him in stinging. 

 Fredonia, N. Y. 



AN OLD SOLDIER WHO IS BOTH A BEEKEEPER AND FRUITGROWER 



BY S._ E. O'NEEL. 



T am an old soldier, 75 years of age, but 

 still able to look after 40 colonies of bees, 

 a large lawn and flowers, and a good fruit 

 and vegetable garden. I get far more 

 profit and pleasure from the bees than from 

 anything else I have. 



take flight again. Since the picture was 

 taken, a honey-house has been built near 

 the apiary, and the young grapevines are 

 old enough to shade -the hives nicely. 



There is lots of pleasure and health in 

 the combination of bees, flowers, and fruit. 



S. E. O'Neel's apiary of 40 colonies at the i-ear of his residence, Dupont, Ind. Mr. 

 soldier who finds health, pleasure, and profit from his bees and fruit. 



O'^^eel is an old 



I liave each colony standing on a slop- 

 ing concrete slab, which forms an alighting- 

 board down to the ground, so the heavily 

 laden bees can crawl in wlion too tired to 



I dislike a disorderly back yard. Every- 

 thing here is kept as nice as is the front 

 lawn. 



Dupont, Ind. 



TAKING OFF HONEY RAPIDLY 



BY LOUIS H. SCROLL 



Two comments on a recent discussion of 

 the above subject by me that have appeared 

 in Gleanings will bear a few words of ex- 

 planation so that the readers will not feel 

 that they may be misled by the experience 



that T gave. The first of the comments, by 

 P. C. Chadwick, appears on page 587, July 

 15. 



Mr. SchoU says, page 471, June 15, that 

 by his method jt is possible to take off more 



