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can. It is on this frame that the combs are imcapped, and 

 the cappings fall in the sieve, where the honey drains out of 

 them, into the lower can. Our capping can is meant to hold 

 the eappings of two days' extracting. 



Manufacturers generally call this implement "uncapping 



Fig. 209. 



UNCAPPING AND EXTRACTING. 



(From The American Bee Journal.) 



can," because it is used when uncapping. We prefer to ca)i 

 it "capping can," because it receives the eappings! 



773. The all-metal extractors, of different makes, are the 

 only ones now in use. Two-frame extractors are the most 



