FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 23 



PEABODY EXTRACTOR. 



Ill that same year, 1870, I got a honey-extractor. With 

 much interest I made my first attempt at extracting, the 

 supreme moment of interest coming when after having given 

 perhaps 200 revolutions to the extractor I looked beneath to 

 see how much honey had run into the pan beneath. Very 

 vividly I remember my keen chagrin and disappointment when 

 I found that not a drop of honey had fallen. The machine was 

 one of the first put on the market, a Peabody extractor (Fig. 



Fig. 6. — Ileddon Slnt Honey-hoard. 



2), the entire can revolving, and it had not occurred to me that 

 the same force that threw the honey out of the comb would keep 

 it against the outer wall of the can so long as it kept in motion. 

 When the can stopped revolving, a fair stream of honey ran 

 down into the pan, and I resumed my normal manner of breath- 

 ing. 



TOO EAPID INCREASE. 



I began the season of 1870 with eight colonoies, increased 

 to 19, and extracted about 400 pounds of honey. This warmed 



