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winter confinement, or after several days’ 
confinement at any time, have taken a 
flight and soiled the washing hung on a 
line in a neighbor’s yard. Possibly, some 
of his children have been stung, or there 
have been times when he has been greatly 
annoyed while in the peaceable possession 
of his own property by bees coming on 
his premises and smelling around, as they 
sometimes do during the fruit-canning sea¬ 
son when the aroma of sugar and juicy 
fruits escapes thru the doors and windows 
of the kitchen. Possibly, the offended 
neighbor keeps chickens, and members of 
his feathered tribe have trespassed on the 
grounds of the beekeeper. The result of 
claimed and a lawsuit follows, with the re¬ 
sult that a feeling of resentment is stirred 
up against the beekeeper. 
Or again, the beekeeper may have an 
apiary in his front yard, bordering on the 
common highway. A nucleus is robbed out, 
the bees become cross and sting passers-by. 
Perhaps a span of horses is attacked; a 
runaway follows; damages are claimed, 
and another lawsuit is begun. 
In the foregoing, possible instances have 
been supposed. It is proper to state that 
they are only types of what has occurred 
and may occur again, so it behooves the 
beekeeper to be careful. 
In the first case mentioned (the aggriev- 
Scheme for protecting horses while cultivating a field next to a bee-yard. 
all this is that bad feelings arise. Com¬ 
plaint is made to the village officers; an 
ordinance is proposed declaring bees 
within the limits of the corporation to be a 
nuisance, and requiring the keeper to re¬ 
move them at once or suffer the penalty of 
fine or imprisonment, or both. See Laws 
Relating to Bees. 
In some instances, live stock has been 
stung; a cow or a calf' or a horse may get 
near the entrances of the hives, which, pos¬ 
sibly, are within a foot of a dividing line 
between the two properties. Perhaps the 
stock is stung nearly to death. Damage is. 
ed neighbor’s washing soiled by the stains 
from bees affected with dysentery), it is 
well for the beekeeper to send over several 
nice sections of honey, or to offer to pay 
for the damage done to the washing. Noth¬ 
ing makes a woman more angry than to 
have her nice clean white linen, after she 
has scrubbed, rinsed, and hung it out to 
dry, daubed with nasty, ill-smelling brown 
stains. But if the beekeeper shows a dis¬ 
position to make the matter good and takes 
pains to offer an apology before the 
woman makes complaint, trouble will in 
most cases be averted. And right here it 
