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necessarily expended in getting the honey upstairs. In a case 

 like this, however, the honey can be unloaded on the upper floor 

 without extra effort. 



On the upper floor is the power driven extractor. From it 

 there is a pipe leading directly to a large settling tank on the 

 floor below. The honey will thus never be handled from the time 

 the uncapped frames are placed in the extractor until it is drawn 



Fig. 89. — Large honey house with all work on ground floor. 



into the sixty-pound cans to ship to market. This particular 

 honey house is arranged with the idea of eliminating every pos- 

 sible unnecessary item of labor. One man has produced, ex- 

 tracted, and prepared for market something like forty thousand 

 pounds of honey from five yards, with help only a few days 

 during the busiest season. 



On the upper floor is the work shop, where hives and frames 

 are assembled, and where extracting combs are stored, in addi- 

 tion to the extracting room. On the lower floor is the big settling 

 tank, the bottling room and storage room for honey. A better 

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