. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Fuj. 1. T)i€ First Honey-Extractors. Fig. 2. of which are only 10x10 inches. The basket was revolved by two wheels, one at the middle, the other at the side, and con- nected by an endless rope. (See Fig. 3.) The machine which was exhibited at Paris was sold to Hamet, the founder and publisher of the bee-journal, L'Api- culteur, for the small sum of Hamet, who was not at all a progressive man, did not buy the machine for use, but only as a i-uriosity for his apiarian collection, and in mention- ing this machine in his journal, he branded it as a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Fuj. 1. T)i€ First Honey-Extractors. Fig. 2. of which are only 10x10 inches. The basket was revolved by two wheels, one at the middle, the other at the side, and con- nected by an endless rope. (See Fig. 3.) The machine which was exhibited at Paris was sold to Hamet, the founder and publisher of the bee-journal, L'Api- culteur, for the small sum of Hamet, who was not at all a progressive man, did not buy the machine for use, but only as a i-uriosity for his apiarian collection, and in mention- ing this machine in his journal, he branded it as a "useless ; Little did he think of the future that awaited this ma- chine, in which he had no more faith than he had in the mov- able-frame hives, the only superiority of which, he said, was that they could be taken to pieces like a " puppet ; I have reasons to believe that the exhibitor of these first extractors, Mr. Lessame, had bought the apiary and fixtures of Major Von Hruschka; for the latter, having resigned his position in the Austrian army when Venetia was ceded to Italy in 1866, sold his property in Dolo, and tried to earn a living by building a largo hotel in Venice. Unfortunately, he met with ill-success, and died in poverty, after a number of. Fig. 3—Hruschha's Honey-Extractor. years of sorrow and trouble. The unfortunate circumstances of the after-life of this man, who had rendered so great a ser- vice to the bee-keepers of the world, were not known until several years after his death, for he was modest and unassum- ing, and avoided speaking of his affairs. Had he taken a patent on his invention, instead of leaving it to others, he would have probably become rich. As soon as it was published in bee-papers, many bee-keep- ers made use of the discovery, and manufactured centrifugal extracting machines. Mr. Adair, of Kentucky, followed the first idea of Hruschka, by making an extractor of two baskets revolving around a central pivot.
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