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Fig. 1.— Apiary of 175 colonies at Imperial, Cal., managed by F. J. Severin. The extreme right 

 of the picture is really the center of the long shed apiary, the hives shown being only half of 

 the total number. 



ter — one for each yard, and 1 think he will 

 also adopt my melter in preference to his 

 own. 



In the first illustration a pile of dirt is 

 seen at the extreme right of the view. This 

 was thrown up to accommodate a two-ton 

 tank sunk in the ground. The tank has a 

 very heavy canvas cover to keep out the 

 rain, supported by a pole, and raised like a 

 tent over the three-inch galvanized pipe 

 that runs from the extractor to the tank. 

 In this way every thing is dirt and rain 

 proof. 



The extractor as shown in Fig. 2 is well 

 bolted down, one inch above the level of the 

 ground, the three-inch pipe referred to ex- 



tending from the bottom of the extractor to 

 the tank in the ground. This gives all the 

 convenience of an extractor on the ground, 

 and avoids the inconvenience of having it 

 elevated on a big box and then drawing the 

 honey off into a pail, which has to be lifted 

 high in the air to pour in a storage-tank. 

 It does not take long to dig the hole in the 

 ground for the tank; and if a fifty-case tank 

 is used, it will hold all that is extracted. At 

 one side a trench is dug down below the bot- 

 tom of the storage tank for filling the cans. 

 I leave one can slowly filling while I carry 

 out a filled one, and then bring an empty 

 one back. At one time when the honey 

 was cold I let off 27 cases of two 60-lb. cans 



Fig. 2.— Interior of F. J. Severin's honey-room, showing extractor, capping-melter, and wax-separator. 



