. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Major Francesco dc Hrusdika. the Austrian Empire, the Italian pro- vince of Venetia, in which he lived, being then under the dominion of the Emperor of Austria. lie had attained the rank of major when he relinquished the service to enjoy the happiness of living with his family in his home at Dolo, near Ven- ice, where he kept a large number of colonies of bees, rearing Italian queens for Germany, and manufacturing hives and other bee-keepers' appliances. His increasing business compelled him to remove to Venice, where he resided for part of the time.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Major Francesco dc Hrusdika. the Austrian Empire, the Italian pro- vince of Venetia, in which he lived, being then under the dominion of the Emperor of Austria. lie had attained the rank of major when he relinquished the service to enjoy the happiness of living with his family in his home at Dolo, near Ven- ice, where he kept a large number of colonies of bees, rearing Italian queens for Germany, and manufacturing hives and other bee-keepers' appliances. His increasing business compelled him to remove to Venice, where he resided for part of the time. The city of Venice is built on 70 or 80 very small islands, which connect with one another by more than 300 bridges. Instead of streets, Venice has mostly canals, trav- ersed by gondolas, which are used as conveyances from house to house, in- stead of street-cars or carriages. The city is separated from the term firmn by a lagoon of shallow water, from two to four miles wide, on which the gondolas may be seen day and night. Such posi- tion makes Venice the most wonder- ful city for the tourist to visit, but, for the same reason, the worst city in which to keep bees, that can be imagined. Hruschka owned a palace, in the city in wliich he dwelled, though boarding at the hotel, to follow his trade, while his bees were at Fig. l—Hruschka'a First Extractor. From what he narrated, on his inven- tion, to the Italian bee-keepers, it ap- pears that, in 185, a small piece of comb in a dish having been put in a funnel-shaped; a glass was fastened under it to receive the running honey. The glass was soon discarded, and replaced by a stopper. The box was suspended by a rope, and turned like a sling (Fig. 1). But as the work of ex- tracting was very slow with such a primitive machine. Ilruschka invented a large, triangular frame, at the center of which a vertical spindle, turning on a pivot, supported a horizontal beam 12 feet long, at both ends of which the boxes were suspended. Tw
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