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THE BB'B-KEBPERS' REVIEW 



ings of others. In the first place 

 the courts would not sustain such 

 a law, but would turn it down 

 as unconstitutional. A few swarms 

 will hardly be noticed by your 

 neighbors in your back yard, pro- 

 viding you procure a quiet strain of 

 Italian stock. It is only when one 

 keeps bees in quite large numbers 

 that trouble might be expected, as 

 the more one keeps in a yard, the 

 more numerous the bees. Conse- 

 quently the more liable they 

 would be to disturb neighbors. The 

 National just now is not protecting 

 its members in their legal trou- 

 bles, but do not think you will get 

 in trouble with the few bees you 

 propose to keep in your city lot. 

 Should your bees do your neigh- 

 bors, or passers-by damage, then 

 you would be liable to civil suit 

 the same as if your other stock 

 should do damage. To sum up your 

 case. It all rests with your man- 

 agement of your bees. You can stir 

 them up through improper handling 

 so they will be a nuisance to 

 your neighbors, or you can by care- 

 ful handling and gentle stock, keep 

 your bees so quiet and gentle that 

 your neighbors will hardly know 

 you have bees. We are interested 

 in you, so kindly report occasion- 

 ally how you get along with your 

 bees and neighbors. Ed.) 



Notice to Secretaries 



During 1913 some of our most 

 energetic Secretaries sent In over 

 40 subscribers to the REVIEW, for 

 which we are very thankful. To 

 encourage this feature of our work, 

 and for the sake of letting the 

 members know who of our Secre- 

 taries are "workers," we are go- 

 ing to keep tally during 1914 of the 

 number of subscribers each Secre- 

 tary sends in, and their names 

 with the number of subscribers 

 sent, will be published in the Re- 

 view from month to month. Not 

 with the idea of paying them for 

 their work, but as an honorary re- 

 cognition of service rendered, we 

 are going to offer the five sending 

 in the largest number of subscrib- 

 ers during 1914, a year's subscrip- 

 tion to the REVIEW for 1915. The 

 list to date stands as follows: 



James A. Stone, Illinois 116 



Gus Dittiiier, Wisconsin 23 



E. It. King, Ohio 18 



P. E. Orane, Vermont 15 



E. J. Winder, Utah 15 



H. E. Gray, New York 15 



E, G. Carr, New Jersey 13 



J, S. Whittemore, Massachu- 

 setts 14 



Dr. L. D. Leonard, Minnesota 11 



S. W. Snyder, Iowa 13 



Geo. W. Williams, Indiana. ... 10 



Henry C. Barron, New Mexico 8 

 J. W. VanLeenhoff, Puerto 



Rico 7 



O. H. Schmidt, Michigan 3 



C H. Stinson, Idaho 5 



J. F. Diemer, Missouri 3 



H. Wilson, Oregon 2 



Alwin P. Heeim, Galifornia. ... 2 



F. C. Bowman, Idaho 2 



Willis C. Collier, Texas 1 



B. N. Gates, Massachusetts ... 9 

 L. C. Dadant, Chicago, North- 

 western 1 



H. O. Klinger, Liverpool, Pa. . 1 



Mabton, Wash., June 22, 1914 

 The Bee-Keepers' Review, 



Northstar, Mich., 



Gentlemen: — Enclosed please find 

 one dollar to pay my subscription 

 to Review one year from expira- 

 tion and I wish the back numbers 

 April, May, and June. 



The orchards in the Northwest 

 have become badly Infested with 

 fire-blighb and many of them will 

 have to be cut down. 



The Yakima Valley as well as 

 other localities are badly infested 

 with the disease acording to news- 

 paper reports. The orchardists are 

 blaming the rapid and wide spread 

 of the disease to the bees. 



I have been informed that the 

 fruit-men have approached the Gov- 

 ernor to ascertain if he would ap- 

 prove of a law to eliminate the bee- 

 men. 



I heard one orchardist say that 

 he would poison the bees. There is 

 an exceeding amount of aphis as 

 well as ants in this locality and I 

 believe the spread of the disease 

 is largely due to them. 



It would be a bad precedent to 

 let such a law become spread upon 

 the statute books of any state and 

 I wish to urge the members of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association 

 to keep their attention turned to- 

 ward the Northwest to see what 

 will be attempted in the way of leg- 

 islation against our interests. 

 Yours truly, 



S. KING CLOVER. 



