THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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Now, open the box again, and if 

 you are on the line the bees will 

 lincl it in a veiy few minutes. If 

 they do not you will know that 

 they are off the line, or have 

 passed the tree, and should move 

 your box to a point that 3'ou know 

 is on the line. This is to be re- 

 peated until you run the bee to its 

 tree 



If you have but a few bees it 

 will be necessary to shut them in 

 the box and move them in this 

 manner fi'om 30 to 60 rods at a 

 time, then open your box and wait 

 for them to go and return. This 

 is to be repeated until you have 

 found the tree. 



Cross lining is important. If 

 anything should prevent you from 

 following the bee in a direct line 

 from where you first start it, you 

 can move the box a distance to 

 the right or left and start it again, 

 by which means you can centre 

 the bee on some prominent object, 

 whereby yqu can invariably locate 

 the tree within a radius of five or 

 six rods. 



Instead of iising honey in your 

 box, put a quantit}' of granulated 

 sugar in a bottle and dissolve it 

 with cold water until it becomes a 

 thick sjuiip, and fill the comb in 

 the box with this liquid, which is 

 better than the real honey. 



[We have had some experience 

 in hunting wild bees. When we 

 went into the woods for the pur- 

 pose, and no bees could be seen, 

 it was our custom to burn a small 

 piece of beeswax or old honey 

 comb. If there were any bees 

 located near enough for the scent 

 of the burning beeswax to reach, 

 we soon had them about us, as 

 nothing will so quickly excite bees 

 and set them to investigating mat- 

 ters as the fumes from bui'ning 

 beeswax. When the bees came, 

 they would soon enter the box for 

 the honey, and then it was an easy 

 matter to hive them. It should 



be understood that hunting wild 

 bees cannot be made a success ex- 

 cept at a time when the flowers 

 are yielding no nectar. — Ed.] 



EDITORIAL. 



ANOTHER LAWSUIT ON ACCOUNT OF 

 KKEPING BEES. 



Now comes Mr. S. W. Kich, of Ho- 

 bart, N. Y., who has heeii sued by his 

 rich neighbor for ,11,500 chimages, and 

 also to compel him to move liis apiary. 



It seems that his neighbor is more 

 troubled iu mind over the alleged niii- 

 sance than in reality. He boasts that 

 he will do all that money can get done 

 to compel the removal of the bees. 

 The apiary is iu a small village, but 

 there never has been a case reported 

 of either a man or beast being stung; 

 neither has there been an}' trouble 

 caused by them. It seems to be a real 

 case of disagreeable fault-finding. 



Am, Bee Journal, Aug. 4. 



The above case is similar to one 

 which happened in Wenham some 

 seventeen or eigliteen years aoo. 

 Mr. John J. Gould had kept bees 

 many years in old box-hives with 

 little success. About the time 

 named, or a few years after he had 

 adopted the Langstroth hive, Mr. 

 Gould began to have considerable 

 success with his bees. One year 

 we had here an unusual flow of 

 honey and Mr. Gould did so well 

 with his bees that his neighbors 

 began to feel rather envious and 

 shovv a disposition to growl. As 

 Mr. Gould had but one acre of 

 land the neighbors and some few 

 townspeople thought that Mr. 

 Gould's bees obtained their honey 

 from flowers grown outside the 

 owner's land. No lawsuit was the 

 result, but more ugliness and spite 

 were never exhibited than on the 

 occasion of this most foolish at- 

 tempt to injure Mr. Gould and his 

 apiary. The people complained 



