90 BEE CULTURE, 
World the first honey extractor, which, by whirling, some- 
thing like his son whirled that little tin pail, gave him the 
pure liquid honey, extracted by centrifugal force, leaving the 
honey comb entirely free from the liquid sweet, which he 
gave again to the bees to fill; allowing him the pure honey 
for making wine, mead and metheglin, or honey cakes, as 
desired, without employing the troublesome and primitive 
method in use up to that time, of mashing up the combs con- 
tainirg the honey, pollen, and sometimes brood, too, to let the 
honey drain through the cloth in which it was placea—giving 
what was formerly known as “strained honey.” 
Major Von Hruschka’s original and complicated Honey 
Extractor has been vastly improved in America by Messrs. 
Winder, Peabody, Murphy, Chapman, Root, Everett, Muth, 
Coffinberry, and others. Now we have neat and inexpensive 
machines which do their work well and rapidly, but honey 
consumers generally have no idea how it is accomplished, and 
some “old fogy”’ bee-keepers as well as novices, still ask how 
it is done. 
