THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



451 



the bees as far from said neighbors 

 and highways a-s possible. Tlien it 

 will help some if you place the' 

 hive's entrance away from passersby. 

 Many times the entrance guards see 

 people or teams moving by, and it 

 so irritates them that they are en- 

 ticed away from the hive and attack 

 people as a result, thus the object 

 of having their entrance facing 

 the opposite way when possible. 

 Then it is the writer's opinion that 

 bees will fly higher and be less 

 liable to come in contact with 

 people when they take the flight 

 the opposite way from their flight 

 to the field. In other words, the 

 bee gets higher up in a given space 

 when starting to the field, when it 

 has to raise up and fly back over 

 the hive. A tight fence (it may be 

 of boards or shrubbery) Is a great 

 help in protecting passersby, and it 

 cannot be too high, for the higher 

 the bees are started off on their 

 journey for honey and pollen, the 

 less liable theiy are to come in con- 

 tact with people. It is a prevailing 

 idea among many that most states 

 have a law prescribihg the distance 

 bees should be kept from highways. 

 Such a law would not be sustained 

 in any court, but thrown out as un- 

 constitutional. What would you think 

 of a legislator who would advocate 



a law prohibiting you pasturing 

 your cow nearer than ten rods of 

 the highway, providing she has 

 horns. It is a parallel case. — Eld. 



When sending in your renewal 

 this month kindly ask your neigh- 

 bor to subscribe with you. As an 

 encouragement for him to subscribe 

 for the Review during 1915, you 

 can promise him the last eight 

 months of 1914, as an inducement. 

 Surely you should have no trouble 

 in getting him to subscribe with 

 ti;is liberal inducement. It is your 

 Review and every subscriber sent 

 makes it possible to put out a bet- 

 ter paper. 



The Review Half Paid For 



The Review cost us $1000 and is 

 considered cheap by those who 

 know, at the price. On January 1st, 

 we will pay $2 00 and interest on 

 this debt, this much being sub- 

 scribed during the last few months. 

 As we now owe $700, this will 

 leave $500 that we still owe, mak- 

 ing the Review half paid for. As 

 many have expressed a desire to 

 contribute toward this fund later, 

 we have decided to accept dona- 

 tions to this fund during 1915. 



The Secretary's Corner 



GEO. W. WILLIAMS, Redkey, Ind. 



Well, we had a splendid meeting 

 at the Indiana Association although 

 the attendance could and would 

 have been larger if the notice had 

 been given longer. In discussing the 

 proposed changes to the National 

 Constitution, a vote was taken to 

 see just how the Review stood in 

 the estimation of the members. 

 How many do you think wished to 

 drop it? NOT A SINGLE ONE. Who 

 said the people wanted to drop it? 



The little honey dish seems to 

 find favor. The first order came all 

 the way from California, and wanted 

 the special mark, hive, bee or some- 

 thing to make it a honey dish in 

 fact as well as in name. I will say 

 again that this will come in time, 

 but as it costs a whole lot to make 



the moulds, we will have to use a 

 great many first. We can have la- 

 bels printed, however, and paste 

 them on, and it will answer in a 

 way. The neighbors up the street 

 where they have the dishes are still 

 asking for honey to put in them, 

 although I am sold out. I will buy 

 some and furnish it so they can use 

 the dishes. 



We had a little discussion at the 

 State meeting on the ASTER ERI- 

 COIDES that is getting so plentiful 

 in sections of Southern and central 

 Indiana. Mr. Erbaugh was of the 

 opinion that it was spreading rap- 

 idly with the winds, and drifting in 

 a northeast direction. There was 

 some objection to the honey if it 

 was not properly ripened, as a 



