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manner. A few tnms, and an examination will reveal all honey gone 

 from one side. We reverse the frames, give a few turns more, and they, 

 merely damp with a residue of honey, are ready to be returned for 

 refilling. 



A very useful extractor, or smielatore, as the Italians call it, for 

 smaller apiaries, has been some time in use in Italy, and was sold at 

 the Florence Exhibition of Apicultural Appliances for 6 francs, or about 

 5s. It can be so easily manufactured that we quote a description :* 

 " The upper part is simply a square tin box and cover (Fig. 46) into 

 which the frame full of honey is placed, so as to rest upon the wire 

 grating, which forms the bottom of the box, and can be removed to be 

 cleaned. This grating is made of wire netting, of five wires to the inch. 



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Tig. 4S. 

 Smtelatobe Comb Chamber. 



Fie. 47. 

 Smielatore Honey Box. 



and is soldered round the edges to a frame of strong iron wire. On one 

 side of this grating (the lower one when it is placed in the smielatore) 

 it is strengthened by two diagonal stout iron wires which cross each 

 other at the centre, the ends being soldered to opposite comers of the 

 frame. The lower part of the smielatore is simply a funnel, shaped like 

 an inverted pyramid (Fig. 47), at the apex of which there is a round tin 

 tube (F), which is closed by a cork (N), when the smielatore is whirled 

 round to extract the honey from the comb, and when that operation is 

 finished the cork is pulled out, and the honey flows into any jar placed 

 for it. If the purest honey is desired then on the inside of the funnel 



* "The Italian System of Beekeeping.' 

 Tegetmeiev (The i^eld oiSce). 



By Mr. Danyell; edited by Mr 



