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DADANT SYSTEM OP BEEKEEPING 



Extracting Implements 



The senior Dadant was already keepingbees when Hruschka, 

 of Dolo, near Venice, in 1865, invented the centrifugal honey 

 extractor (smelatore). This invention was described in the 

 American Bee Journal, three years later, in April, 1868. It may 

 seem strange to a modern student that so important a discovery 

 should have been 3 years in coming across the ocean, but when 

 we remember that there were only 3 or 4 magazines published 

 on beekeeping at that time ; none then in Italy ; that the trans- 

 atlantic cables were just beginning their useful activity, it will 

 be easier to comprehend the slowness of the spread of so useful 

 a discovery. 



There were no manufacturers of bee supplies, no dealers 

 in hives or smokers, at that time, in the United States. So the 

 only way to secure an extractor was to have one built at home. 



Fig. 44. The first extractor made in the United States 

 was the pattern of our first extractor 



