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FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 



common principles of law that underlie all law. Every law 

 must be specific and must apply specifically to all the people 

 engaged in that industry. 



Mr. Kimmey — Suppose you lived next door to a church 

 and should insist on keeping a row of bee-hives right along 

 side of the church, don't you think there is power in the 

 municipal power of a city to control that matter? 



Mr. Moore — This matter has been threshed over at very 

 great length. The law of nuisances covers a great many of 

 these things. There is such a thing as a public and a private 

 nuisance. No man would claim that keeping a cow was a 

 nuisance, but in a city where people live close together you 

 can keep a horse or a cow in such a way as to become a 

 nuisance. It may be a private nuisance, it may be a public 

 nuisance. The whole neighborhood is interested in having 

 it abated, in which case there is appropriate remedy. Keep- 

 ing bees or chickens is not a nuisance, but they may be kept 

 in such a way as to become an awful nuisance. Then there 

 is a remedy for the people aggrieved, at law. 



Mr. Kimmey — Don't you think there is a remedy with 

 the authorities. Has the pastor of a church got to go to law? 

 Why can't he ask that there shall be a reasonable ordinance 

 passed to control those things? 



Mr. Moore — It is not necessary to pass an ordinance. If 

 the church authorities are agreed, the church authorities as a 

 corporation can maintain an action for specific nuisance. 



Mr. Kimmey — Your argument would abolish all law. I 

 don't believe that we should take the high and lofty position 

 that we can keep bees wherever we please, regardless of 

 everybody and anybody. When we do I believe we will find 

 ourselves subject to municipal legislation under the police 

 power granted by the State of all municipal corporations. 



Mr. Moore — If the Legislature or if municipal corpora- 

 tions attempted to make laws to govern everything, pretty 

 soon they would be making laws telling you to have your 

 picket fence so high, to keep your next neighbor's chickens 

 out. 



Mr. Kimmey — They do that very thing right here in the 

 city of Chicago. 



Mr. Moore — There are a whole lot of things that must 

 be governed by common sense, and they have attempted to 

 make general laws to remedy specific cases of grievance. 

 There is always a law for specific grievance. 



Mr. Stanley being now ready to explain his method of 

 queen-rearing, the subject was taken up. 



STANLEY METHOD OF QUEEN-REARING. 



Mr. Stanley — I have a frame of queen-cells here. 

 Dr. Miller — How do you get those queen-cells started? 

 Mr. Stanley — Started as they are now? Do you mean 

 grafted ? 



Dr. Miller— Yes. 



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