NECESSARY EQUIPMENT 57 



Special Equipment for Extracted 

 Honey. — For the production of extracted 

 honey, an extractor, of course, is necessary. A 

 small two-frame hand extractor will be suf- 

 ficient for the small apiary. A commercial 

 apiary will need at least a f om^-f rame machine, 

 and many of them use eight-frame or larger 

 machines. 



To extract the honey the beekeeper takes 

 the frames of honey from the bees and carefully 

 cuts the cappings from both sides of the comb 

 with a warm knife. The frames are then 

 placed in the baskets of the extractor and 

 turned very rapidly (Fig. 4). The motion of 

 the baskets whirling inside the big can throws 

 the honey out of. the combs and against the side 

 of the can. It is then drawn off through a 

 faucet in the bottom of the extractor. Ex- 

 tracted honey differs from strained honey in 

 thus being thrown out by centrifugal force, 

 instead of being strained through a cloth after 



