CHAPTER X 

 EXTRACTED HONEY 



HOW TO PRODUCE IT 



IT is certainly fortunate for bee-keepers that 

 centrifugal force is one of the unalterable laws of 

 the physical world. However, this force might never 

 have been of any use to the apiarist had it not been 

 for a certain Major Francesco de Hruschka of 

 Venice, who is a most interesting figure in the history 

 of bee-keeping. Next in importance to the inven- 

 tion of the movable frames by the venerable Lang- 

 stroth was the invention of the honey-extractor. We 

 have a picture of Major Hruschka in our minds 

 as not only a brave man of war as indicated by his 

 military rank, but also as a happy man of peace, 

 who loved his hives with their little citizens, and 

 who also possessed notable domestic virtues and 

 loved the companionship of his children and was 

 interested in their doings. For it was when his 

 little son accompanied him to his apiary and, having 

 a comb full of honey set up in a basket, began whirl- 

 ing it boy-like by the rope attached to the handle, 

 that the Major discovered the honey was being 

 thrown out of the comb by this action. Instead of 

 spanking the boy as most fathers would have done, 

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