The Foundation of the City 
obtaining in Asia and Africa, and the familiar 
bell-shaped constructions of straw which we 
find in our farmers’ kitchen-gardens, or 
beneath their windows, lost beneath masses 
of sunflowers, phlox, and hollyhock, to what 
may really be termed the factory of the 
model apiarist of to-day. An edifice, this, 
that can contain more than three hundred 
pounds of honey, in three or four storeys of 
superposed combs enclosed in a frame which 
permits of their being removed and handled, 
of the harvest being extracted through cen- 
trifugal force by means of a turbine, and of 
their being then restored to their place like 
a book in a well-ordered library. 
And one fine day the industry or caprice 
of man will install a docile swarm in one of 
these disconcerting abodes. And there the 
little insect is expected to learn its bearings, 
to find its way, to establish its home; to 
modify the seemingly unchangeable plans 
dictated by the nature of things. In this 
unfamiliar place it is required to determine 
the site of the winter storehouses, that must 
not extend beyond the zone of heat that issues 
from the half-numbed inhabitants; it must 
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