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ZOOLOGY. 
ARE BEES INJURIOUS TO FRUIT? — Dr. H. A. Hagen, late of König 
Prussia, who is an eminent entomologist, and who has paid special 
tion to the literature of Bees and aina; thus writes us reg 
this question :— 
“I have never known, and find nothing in the literature 
hand to prove that Bees are obnoxious to fruits and to fields. Bees 
never use the fields of red clover; the corolla is too long for their p 
cis. t they are very frequently seen in the fields of white clover, 4 
have heard that these fields are obnoxious to bees, if shortly before ı 
APIPHOBIA.—The people of Wenham have voted, by a two-thirds: 
jority, that no bees shall be kept in the town—the vote being direc 
against an extensive bee-keeper whose stock has been troubles¢ 
Some say a Pare of the town is of ‘doubtful constitutional 
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tity aaa of Wenham have judged that bertoning an 
atij are incompatible, and that bees are a nuisance!! We also no 
that the bee-keeper ‘whose stock has been Sodi advertise 
the Salem Gazette, his farm for sale, consisting of ‘“ three-quarters 0! ý 
choice standard fruit.” (Memorandum. —The bee-keeper himself 
m the above quotations, to have found both fruit-raising and bee- 
ing a source of profit! ! 
des, about which there is always a sort of tragic interest, 
be adjudged only as “common nuisances,” to be abated and & 
guished by the ballots of f Wenham’s “free and mee bie 
This disease, Apiphobia, as we may call it, has afflicted m 
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among the unfortunate inhabitants of Wenham, Massachusetts, 
It would be immodest in us to s suggést as a preventive against this 
" *We learn that the Selectmen of Wenham have ordered the bee-keeper to abate t 
Maia” and take his bees out of town. Can it be possible! and this in enlightened M: 
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