286 LAWS THAT CONCERN THE BEE-KEEPER 
housewife is canning fruit or making jelly or anything else 
where sugar is used in making syrup. Where the doors of 
grocery stores are left open the bees are also likely to find some 
attraction. 
Such anncyances as the above described are usual only during 
warm weather where there is no natural source of supply. After 
the honey flow is checked the bees are very persistent in hunting 
for everything sweet. Seldom is the bee-keeper to be blamed 
in cases like these. If the premises are properly screened against 
flies the bees will be unable to enter. 
In Adjoining Fields——It frequently happens that the bee- 
keeper will have his bees near the fence and that they will annoy 
the owner who cultivates the adjoining field. It devolves upon 
the bee-keeper to do what he can to relieve the situation by 
erecting a suitable fence, moving the bees, or whatever remedy 
muy be reasonable. 
While the bee-keeper has the same right to conduct his busi- 
ness as any other man enjoys, he must recognize the right of 
the public to be kept free from undue annoyance. With the fore- 
going causes of trouble in mind the reader will appreciate the 
following able discussion by J. D. Gustin, an attorney of Kansas 
City, Missouri, whose statements may be regarded as authori- 
tative. 
BEES AS A NUISANCE 
Increasing population, greater dissemination of knowledge, and the 
development and specialization of industrics, pursuits, and occupations 
combine to add constantly to the complexity of the relations of individuals, 
and to call from time to time, for the readjustment of the affairs of men 
to meet changed and changing conditions. In no other branch of the law is 
the ingenuity of the courts more heavily taxed in this manner than in the 
subject of nuisances, where, from the very nature of the subject, first 
principles, rather than specific legislative enactment, must always exert a 
controlling influence. The lawmaking power may, as occasion seems to 
require, declare that particular objects, actions, omissions, ete., shall be 
nuisances, either with or without regard to attending conditions or circum- 
stances, but the application of such statutes is necessarily so limited that 
the general law of the subject is not affected. 
*Hees as a Nuisance, Third Annual Report of the State Inspector of 
Bees, Iowa, 114. 
