Bees for Candy Stores.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 30 October 1914, Page 2

Bees for Candy Stores.

Keeping bees in the heart of a great city seems almost an absurdity. Yet it is being done in New York with .great success. According to " Gas Logic,"' there are several bee colonies on the roofs of high buildings even in the business parts of the city, while up town, near the parks, many residents have, kept bees for years. There used to be about a score of hives on the roof of an office building in Vesey street, but their denizens made life so interesting for the girls in a large candy factory near by, that the proprietor complained to the board of health, with the result thai/ the bees were banished up town. These bees lived on and made honey from chocolate cream, molasses, tofly and gumdrops. At Columbia University, the college of the city of New York, and Mount Morris high-school, hives are maintained for the instruction of the pupils, and one year, when the Mount Morris school was opened in the fall, 28 combs of honey fell to the lot of those who had them in charge. Nothing daunted by the loss of their store, these bees went to work and made another 28 combs full of honey.