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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



UVorld's Fair Exliitoit.— The 



following item was published in the 

 Chicago Times of last week. It was 

 gleaned from onr correspondence with 

 W. I. Buchanan, Esq., Chief of the 

 Department of Agriculture, about the 

 management of the bee and honey exhibit: 



Thomas G. Newman, editor of the 

 Bee Jouknal, of Chicago, writes to 

 Chief Buchanan that the International 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, which is the 

 parent society for the United States and 

 Canada, had its meeting last October 

 and selected Dr. A. B. Mason, of Ohio, 

 and R. McKnight, of Ontario, as the 

 managers of the Apiarian Exhibit at the 

 Exposition, subject to Mr. Buchanan's 

 appointment. Mr. Newman says ar- 

 rangements are forming to make a grand 

 exhibit of bees and honey at the Fair. 



Mr. Buchanan will do all he can to 

 provide for a magnificent apiarian 

 exhibition. We have had a visit from 

 him, and he is thoroughly alive to the 

 subject. 



Aiiotlier Victory.— The follow- 

 ing letter wfll fully show that another 

 victory has been obtained by putting the 

 decision of the Supreme Court of 

 Arkansas to good use : 



Easton, Pa., June 10, 1S91. 

 General Manager of the Union : — 

 You can score another victory for the 

 bee-keepers. For a number of years 

 past, a certain confectioner of our city 

 has kept up a quarrel with a couple of 

 his neighbors, who kept a few colonies 

 of bees. His candy factory was an old, 

 rickety building, with panes of glass 

 broken out of the windows, and in 

 Summer he had the doors and windows 

 open. The result was, that in the late 

 Summer, when nectar was scarce, the 

 bees would get into the building, and 

 annoy his assistants, who killed a great 

 many of the bees. One of the bee-keepers 

 offered to make screens for the doors 

 and windows, at his own expense, but 

 the confectioner refused to accept the 

 proposition, and kept up the quarrel 

 until about two months ago, when his 

 foreman, who is a member of the City 

 Council, introduced an ordinance declar- 

 ing certain things and acts nuisances. 

 This ordinance contained a section, 

 declaring bee-keeping within the city 

 limits a nuisance, and imposing a penalty 

 of $20 for a violation of its provisions. 



This ordinance was referred to thd 

 law department. I at once called on thes 

 chairman of the committee, and asked 

 to be heard when they took it into 

 consideration. Thisrequest was granted, 

 and I appeared before them. The com- 

 mittee consisted of two lawyers and 

 three laymen, two of whom were, or 

 had been, bee-keepers themselves. In 

 addressing them, I, in substance, used 

 the argument of Judge Williams in the 

 Arkadelphia case, which you so kindly 

 sent me, and wound up by showing them 

 the absurdity of such an ordinance. 



Our city at no place measures more 

 than two miles across. I keep about 40 

 colonies in the city, within 1,000 yards 

 of the line. I could easily remove them, 

 and thus place myself beyond the reach 

 of their ordinance. In addition to this, 

 there are perhaps 150 colonies within 

 one mile outside the line, all around the 

 city. I explained to them that these 

 bees would fly from one to three miles 

 when nectar was scarce, and that no 

 ordinance which they could enact would 

 keep them out of the city at such times-. 



The lawyers saw the legal points 

 raised at once, and the two bee-men 

 actually arose and aided me in my 

 argument as to the absurdity, and the 

 result was an unanimous vote to strike 

 out the section relative to bees, and it 

 was so reported and passed at the meet- 

 ing of the Council on Friday last. 



C. G. Beitel. 



Queen-Bees can now be admitted 

 free of duty. The Manager of the Bee- 

 Keepers' Union has a long letter from 

 the Treasury Department, in reply to 

 his letter of May 11, with the ruling of 

 O. L. Spaulding, Esq., Assistant Secre- 

 tary, that "Queen bees of recognized 

 breeds may properly be admitted to free 

 entry under the provisions of paragraph 

 482, without requiring the certificate of 

 record and pedigree specified therein." 

 This is all ive ashed for. The full cor- 

 respondence may be given next week, so 

 as to place it upon record, for the 

 convenient reference of all interested. 



Xhe OfiBcial Report of the 22nd 

 Annual Convention of the New York 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association is on our 

 desk. The convention was held last 

 January, and a condensed report pub- 

 lished on pages 222, 284 and 326 of 

 the American Bee Journal. 



