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PRODUCTION OF EXTRACTED HONEY 



gether, tank and all. Then came an extractor in which two 

 comb baskets revolved inside the can, but requiring that the combs 

 be lifted out and turned around, after one side had been emptied. 

 The latest machines are reversed by the simple pulling of a lever 

 without stopping the machine. The larger sized ones have a 



Fio. 81. -^A power driven extractor. 



capacity of eight frames, so chat something like forty pounds 

 of honey is extracted from a set of full combs at each operation. 

 Power. — For extensive apiaries, the power driven extractor 

 (Fig. 81) is a great economy, for while the operator is uncapping 

 one set of combs, the machine will empty another. A small 

 gasoline engine costing from thirty-five to fifty dollars is suflfi- 

 cient to furnish the necessary power, and, during the extracting 



