. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1921 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 11 As my hands were full at that time, I did not attempt to make one until the next spring, when I used a small molasses hogshead for a tub, with wooden shaft and reel and a large wooden wheel with a strong cord running from the wheel around the shaft. Well, it Worked! and I took from one hive that season 240 pounds of extracted honey. That fall I vis- ited Moses Quinby, with whom I had quite an amount of correspondence, and purchased several hives, for one of which, containing an imported queen, I paid $35. He told me he had
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1921 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 11 As my hands were full at that time, I did not attempt to make one until the next spring, when I used a small molasses hogshead for a tub, with wooden shaft and reel and a large wooden wheel with a strong cord running from the wheel around the shaft. Well, it Worked! and I took from one hive that season 240 pounds of extracted honey. That fall I vis- ited Moses Quinby, with whom I had quite an amount of correspondence, and purchased several hives, for one of which, containing an imported queen, I paid $35. He told me he had made an extractor the previous spring, using the gearings of an old farm fanning mill to secure the neces- sary motion, but as the season was poor he had been unable to use it. I was delighted with Mr. Quinby, for he seemed to be a large-souled man, as well as an extensive bee- keeper. Nothing seemed to delight him more than to be helpful to oth- ers. Through him I learned of his brother in New York, a commission merchant of the old type, as honest as the day was long. He told me later that every pound of white honey sold that year in Vew York for 50 cents a pound; that is, honey, glass box and all, wholesale, which would make it about the same as this year. Moses Quinby was the first to sug- gest and use a hand bellows smoker. I believe it impossible for the younger generation to realize the difficulties attending the rapid manipulations of hives without a smoker. We used for the most part a stick of dry rotten wood, setting one end on fire by the kitchen stove. If it was not suffi- ciently decayed, it was likely to go out, and if too rotten it burned too fast and our face and eyes grew red as we blew the smoke among the bees, and sparks, too, and our clothes were sometimes set on fire. So I have no disposition to say that the former times were better than today. Soon after the honey extractor came into use, extracted honey was shipped to the city, and I remember very distinc
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