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ordered out. But unfortunately there were a whole lot of 

 otlicr bee-keepers in San Antonio, and when one apiary went, 

 all the others would have to go. We have a representative 

 on our Board of Directors there, so I turned the case over 

 to Mr. Toepperwein to take care of it. Through the sug- 

 gestions of the members of the Board he has carried that 

 case. It went into Court, and the Judge decided that there 

 is no law in Texas, or in other lands, forbidding the keep- 

 ing of bees in the city, and we won the case. But we could 

 not have done that if we had not had a man on the ground. 

 And when it came in Court we had present all the bee-keep- 

 ers from the City of San Antonio, who owned bees in the 

 city — like so many bees that had been dropped in the hive. 

 There were 121 bee-keepers of San Antonio standing there 

 in Court, buzzing mad, ready to fight. It meant something. 

 He could not have won if he had not been a member of the 

 Association. 



We want these protections; but let us not aggravate 

 troubles and thus bring them on unnecessarily. To avoid that 

 I sent out over 4,000 copies to the members and to those 

 who have been bringing complaint, of the little leaflets, 

 "What the Courts Say," and the other one, "Bees and Horti- 

 culture." It has been a help, and if there is any one page that to 

 me, in all of them, is dearer than any of the others, it is one 

 of the last pages in the leaflet, "To the City Bee-Keeper." 

 If the city bee-keepers — and it includes a large number of 

 our members — would heed the warnings therein it would 

 save us many dollars that we might use to spread out in 

 literature or in some otherway that would be an advantage to the \ 

 members of the Association. For instance, soon after going out 

 of their winter quarters, the city bee-keeper's bees — the charge 

 will be brought by the wholesale next spring of bees soiling 

 the clothes on the wash-line. You know what it ineans when 

 they are taken out from the cellar, and it is quite an annoy- 

 ance to the neighbors adjoining these city apiaries. I have 

 suggested remedies — not a cure, but a help for it — that if 

 you know the day that your neighbor is to wash clothes, and 

 your bees are just going out, just delay putting those bees 

 out until after wash-day, so that they may have the balance 

 of that week to fly, and you will avoid a great deal of 

 trouble. 



Then, again, at a watering-place. I went a long dis- 

 tance at mv own expense, where parties could not let their 

 stock come up and drink at the tank. There were about 100 

 colonies of bees, and that was their only watering-place. I 

 took a little piece of timber and put it around on the inside of 

 the tank — a piece of 2x4, sawed to fit. It was a round tank. 

 Then put a little waste-pipe and made a mud-hole away from 

 the watering-tank. It is dry around the tank, and the stock 

 come up and drink at their pleasure. The man who brought 

 that complaint is going to have some bees next summer. 



There was a brickyard in California. The owner had 

 no bees, and had no interest in bees, but was com- 

 pelled to stop making brick because his neighbor kept 

 bees, and the bees crossed over the brick to the 



