. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK AT $ PER [— -J 35tli Year. CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 17, 1895. No. 3. Coi;)tnbutcd /Vrticles* On Iini>ortant jA-piarian Subjects. The Production of Extracted Honey. The second in a series of articles on the subject. BY CHAS. DADANT. When I heard of the Hruschka invention, in 1868, I had abont 100 colonies of bees in movable-frame hives, and I, at once, ordered from a tinsmith a large round can, and bought a gearing similar to the ones used at that time on patent churns. I then requested our blacksmith to make a square
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK AT $ PER [— -J 35tli Year. CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 17, 1895. No. 3. Coi;)tnbutcd /Vrticles* On Iini>ortant jA-piarian Subjects. The Production of Extracted Honey. The second in a series of articles on the subject. BY CHAS. DADANT. When I heard of the Hruschka invention, in 1868, I had abont 100 colonies of bees in movable-frame hives, and I, at once, ordered from a tinsmith a large round can, and bought a gearing similar to the ones used at that time on patent churns. I then requested our blacksmith to make a square iron frame, which I covered with metallic gauze all around. A revolving iron pivot in the center, and a wooden frame on the outside, finished up the extractor, in which we could ex- tract the honey from four Quinby frames at one time. It was a very bulky machine; but it worked splendidly, and was soon busy, for it was made in June, just at the time of the honey-flow. We began extracting as fast as the bees filled the combs, and the results were far above all that I had anticipated. I was so eager and so proud of success that I took the honey, not only from the surplus combs, but from the brood-frames as well, and filled barrel after barrel, like A. I. Root, who thought of emptying his cistern to store his crop. But a little of my enthusiasm dampened when I found that we had ex- tracted our honey before it was ripe, and that a part of it ripened unevenly. We found thai, in some cases, a part of the water separated from the honey at the time of granula- tion, and remained liquid, though somewhat sweet at the top of the honey. This had to be drawn off for spring feed and for vinegar. RIPENING AND UNCAPPING THE HONEY. Then the following question came to my mind : How can we ripen honey—by evaporating it after harvesting it, or by waiting until the bees have ripened it in the hive? The sec- ond way was the best, without a doubt. But if we wait until it is ripened in the hive, we
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