The Life of the Bee 
problems besides, whose enumeration 
would take too long. 
Now, the form of the hive that man 
offers to the bee knows infinite variety, 
from the hollow tree or earthenware vessel 
still 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 stories of super- 
posed combs enclosed in a frame which 
permits of their being removed and 
handled, of the harvest being extracted 
‘hrough centrifugal force by means of 
a turbine, and of their being then re- 
stored to their place like a book in a 
well-ordered library. 
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