State Bee-Keepers Association. 85 



MRS. J. M. NULL, MIAMI, MO. 



The mayor, who is also editor of the News, tried to incite a crusade 

 against the bees, and assailed Mrs. Null and her honey- gatherers each week. 

 That lady, having been a member of the Union for years, was instructed 

 how to proceed should legal measures be commenced by that ungallant 

 official, and copies of the Arkansas Supreme Court decision were sent to the 

 mayor and councilmen. They have not dared to molest the bees yet. 



F. M. HART, TRAVER, CAL. 



A fellow named Ogden, who is a grape-grower in Traver, circulated a 

 petition to the Board of Supervisors to have the bees removed because they 

 were charged with ruining the grape crop — that damage was done by rain, 

 however. Mr. Hart wrote the facts to the manager of the Union, who, last 

 February instructed him how to proceed, and sent copies of the Arkansas 

 Supreme Court decision, to be placed in the hands of the Board and head off 

 the petitioners. 



The Board then procured from the District Attorney an opinion on this 

 question : "Can the Board of Supervisors prohibit, by ordinance, the keep- 

 ing of bees?" 



The District Attorney replied : "Bees are property, and being such 

 you cannot destroy the right of the owner therein. Any attempt of the 

 Board to prohibit these farms on the ground that they are a menace to fruit 

 farms would be usurpation by it of the functions of courts and juries, a denial 

 to the citizen of his property- rights, and practically a confiscation of his 

 property without due process of law." 



The Board denied the petition and the bee-keepers won a substantial 

 victory. ; 



The Union is to be congratulated upon another victory. While Mr. F. 

 M. Hart's action was directed by the Union, he remained in perfect quietude 

 and his rights have been sustained. His neighbors became frightened at the 

 cry of "the wolf," fled to the mountains and sacrificed their property. How 

 much cheaper and more comfortable it would have been to have held a 

 membership ticket in the Union and had its backing, moral support and 

 defense ? 



E. GREELEY, LORAINE, OHIO. 



A neighbor of Mr. Elbert Greeley, at Loraine, O., circulated a petition 

 asking the city council to pass an ordinance to prohibit the keeping of bees 

 in the city. The council took the wisest course m its disposition of thepeti- 

 tion, as, from the evidence at hand, it appears to have had its origin m a 

 spirit of petty malice. Common justice demanded that Mr. Greeley's bees 

 should not be declared a nuisance, and ordered removed from the city 

 limits, while bees kept by others, within the limits of the same city, were not 

 even mentioned. 



