. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 264 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER December, BEE-KEEPERS OF GOTHAM. (Leon D. Jiverett). (Ck)pyright, 1903, by P. F. Collier & Son ) FAR ABOVE the din and strife of business, in the very lieart of down-town business section of New Yoris: city, bees buzz merrily as they fly in and out of their busy homes. On the roof of many a tall office build- ing, janitors keep apiaries of from five to twenty hives beyond the view of rushing humanity on the streets below. The city bee, however, has to hus- Imve gone five miles from home in or- der to secure it. Rang
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 264 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER December, BEE-KEEPERS OF GOTHAM. (Leon D. Jiverett). (Ck)pyright, 1903, by P. F. Collier & Son ) FAR ABOVE the din and strife of business, in the very lieart of down-town business section of New Yoris: city, bees buzz merrily as they fly in and out of their busy homes. On the roof of many a tall office build- ing, janitors keep apiaries of from five to twenty hives beyond the view of rushing humanity on the streets below. The city bee, however, has to hus- Imve gone five miles from home in or- der to secure it. Ranged in a row on the top of an office building in which bankers and brokers scheme, are five to twenty in- nocent-looking white boxes, or hives, in and out of which the little fellows go. Emerging from their hives, they rise above the smoke and haze of chim- neys, and Avhen at the proper height away tliey go for distant fields. The city bees never get lost, even though they may wander several miles from home; for every one of them is the possessor of compound eyes, which en-. An Apiaiv on a Sk.^ tie for a living, for it cannot, like its country cousins, leave the hive and Immediately strike a field of blooming clover or flowering buckwheat, but must stretch its wings and hie away to liie blossoming shores of Now .Jer- sey, Statcn Island or Long Island. In spite of these handicaps, the roof- city bees manage to be a source of profit to their owners, and day by day i-eturn with rich stores of golden nec- tar, even though in some instances they able it to see great distances, and wlicii returning home to fly in a line S(^straight that the "bee line" has be- come )iroverbial. Each one of tJiese hives or "colonies," is a teeming city in itself, having a poimlation of about foi-ty thousand in- habitants, ruled over by a queen, only one of which exists in a hive at a time, and whose word is law. There is no such thing as a king bee, about which the Mucients
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