THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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A House Apiary in Italy. 



The Italian monthly periodical, 

 L'AjiicoltOie, iniblished at Milano, 

 Italy, furnishes a long descriptive and 

 historic sketch of the very substantial 

 building to acconunodate about 150 

 colonies of bees with a permanent 

 home, provided by that eminent bee 

 master, Signor F. Bianchi. By the 

 engraving on this page it will be seen 

 that there is an observatory tower and 

 /(ortoye (clock) at one end, and a two- 

 story tower and flag stalf at the other, 

 with an elevation for a ■' study " over 

 the passage-way in the center. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



(Jiieer Industries in Sew York City. 



— Xlie following item, clipped from 

 the Lewis Co., iST. Y"., Democrat of 

 Feb. 23, 1881, was sent to us by Mr. 

 N. F. Case, of Glensdale, N. Y., who 

 wants us to " notice " it : 



The investigation of the census 

 men have led to some queer develop- 

 ments in tlie manutactories of New 



are filled witli glucose, which is the 

 sweet syrup of CQUimon ('orii, and 

 looks and tastes like honey. The cells, 

 once lilled. are closed by smearing a 

 hot iron plate over the w;ix tops, and 

 the product is sold as the •' best clover 

 honey." It is in great demand, and 

 outsells the regular honey. (Gallons 

 and gallons of the best tomato catsup 

 are made from the tomato skins which 

 are purchased from the great tomato 

 canning establishment. 



There are fra\tds enough to enumer- 

 ate the real ones, witliout adding the 

 fanciful stories about fraudulent comb 

 lioney, which are but the vague im- 

 aginations of some "crank." There 

 is no truth in that part of the item. 



Apiary of Signor F. Bianchi, in Italy. 



The hives in Italy have doors at the 

 back, for examination and manipula- 

 tion—the interior of the long build- 

 ing is, therefore, used for that pur- 

 pose. 



The whole building has a substan- 

 tial appearance and is very attractive 

 not only to the bee-keepers of tlie sur- 

 rounding country, but to Italians in 

 general. There the care of bees is a 

 pastime and study for the wealthy 

 and learned, and such a building is a 

 pride to its owner ; but here, where 

 bees are kept more for the money that 

 can be made out of their labors rather 

 than for a patient study of their habits 

 and peculiarities, such a building is 

 not desirable ; and on many accounts 

 would be decidedly objectionable. 



York and adjoining cities. The largest 

 single industry in New York is that 

 of custom made clothes. The making 

 of paper patterns employs hundreds 

 of hands, and. ten large houses being 

 engaged in it. use tons of paper. 

 There are factories for making dried 

 blood, the dummies that milliners use 

 to show dresses on, theatrical armor 

 and jewsharps. Tlie use of adulterat- 

 ing substances is getting to be general. 

 Castile soap is made of grease and 

 terra alba, or white earth, and which 

 earth is used largely in candy making. 

 Glucose, which is corn starch, is used 

 heavily by the .sugar refiners. There 

 is a firm engaged in making honey 

 and honey comb. The honey comb is 

 made by machinery of paratfine wax, 

 and is an exact imitation of the regu- 

 lar thing, except that the bees fashion 

 their cells of walls only ]-ia5th of an 

 inch wide, while human artificers have 

 not yet become that deft. The cells 



Too Much Honey.— The Los Ange- 

 les (Cal.) Times tells this story : 



■ Eastern people do not always appre- 

 ciate the scale upon which Califor- 

 nians lay out their work. A case in 

 point, is that of an eastern merchant 

 who wrote to a Los Angeles County 

 bee man for a sample of his extracted 

 honey. His request vi-as complied 

 with, and the merchant was so well 

 pleased with the appearance and good 

 quality of the honey that he sent an 

 order for all the man liad like that. 

 The gentleman, thinking the mer- 

 chant might not be reck<ming on the 

 auu)unt lie had in stock, wrote him 

 that he had 16 tons on hand, but that 

 he might as well make it 20 tons, 

 which would be just 2 car loads, and 

 that he would ship it immediately. 

 He received a telegram a few days, af- 

 ter, saying : " Keep your honey ! I 

 only want a case or two." 



