A movement on the part of fruit growers against the enormous destruction caused by bees on fruits is on foot in California, as we judge by the following from a California paper. Bees can be easily trapped by sweet liquids under inverted glasses, and it seems to us the better plan would be to destroy the bees than to go to law. But this is the case as reported :

"A complaint has been filed in the Superior Court of San Diego county, in which the plaintiff recites the expense he has been under to improve his land, and states that he is engaged in the business of fruit growing; that among other fruits and vines he has about 30 acres of Muscat grapes raised for the express purpose of being made into raisins; that in order to accomplish this object it is necessary that the grapes be taken from the vine and exposed to the sun and air for about one month in order to cure and dry for the market. He alleges that defendant resides near Viejas, about 30 miles from plaintiffs premises, and is engaged in the business of keeping bees; that he does now and has for two years continuously kept upon a piece of Government land (embraced in the railroad grant) a part of section 23 and about three-quarters of a mile from plaintiff's premises, several hundred stands of bees. He further alleges that defendant has no interest in the land, but wilfully and maliciously keeps the bees thereon for the purpose of letting them eat up and destroy the fruits of the labor of citizens living in that vicinity, and are a great nuisance; that during the two years past the bees of defendant have destroyed and eaten up large quantities of the fruit to the value of $1,000, and are still engaged in eating up and destroying plaintiff's said property; that during said time defendant has known of the depredations, and has often been requested to abate said nuisance, but has and still refuses to do so.

Plaintiff alleges it is his belief that the bees are wilfully and maliciously maintained at their present location, intending to damage and destroy his property in order to compel him to pay defendant a large sum of money to have them moved. The prayer of the plaintiff is that he may have judgment and decree of the Court that the keeping of said bees is a nuisance and that it be abated, and that he may recover from defendant, as damages for injury done, the sum of $1,000.