extracting in the reversing extractors, swing like a door on its 
hinges, allowing both sides of the comb to be extracted without 
removing it from the comb pocket. The non-reversible machines 
make it necessary to remove the comb from the pocket to reverse it. 
The smallest size extractor made, the Novice (Fig. 27) does not 
have the frame reversing feature. This, however, is not so essen- 
tial as one might be led to think. This machine does work equal 
to a larger and more expensive one, and the non-reversible fea- 
ture is not missed when the trick of working without it is learned. 
When the honey has been thrown from one side of the combs, cross 
the arms and grasp a frame in each hand. Remove them from the 
extractor, uncross the arms and return the frames. This accom- 
plishes the reversing and requires no more time than does reversing 
with any of the reversible machines except the large automatics. 
For a large business a power automatic machine should be used. 
Settling Tank 
Even though but a few hundred pounds of extracted honey is 
produced, a settling tank should be provided. A tight wooden 
barrel with one head removed and a syrup gate near the bottom 
may answer fairly well if coated on the inside with paraffine, but 
a metal tank is much to be preferred. There is no need for any 
straining device, the settling tank sufficing except for the last few 
pounds of honey in the tank. 
Cappings Press 
When uncapping combs to be extracted, some utensil is needed 
to support the comb, receive the cappings with the adherent honey 
and to separate as much as practical the honey from the wax. 
This end is very well accomplished by the adaptation of a cider 
press to this purpose, which has been developed by Mr. O. W. Bedell, 
Earlville, N. Y. 
A cider press with an extra circular slatted bottomless tub is 
secured, and the table on which the tub is used in pressing ground 
apples is made to extend about twice its length beyond the original, 
the projecting end being supported by legs and inclined slightly 
from the press proper. A piece of lumber with projecting nail 
point is supported across one of the slatted tubs which is placed 
at the outer end of the extended table. One end of a filled frame 
is placed on and supported by the nail point while the capping: 
are removed, slicing downward. The cappings fall into the tub, 
and much of the adhering honey drains away and runs off the end 
of the inclined table into a vessel placed to receive it. When a 
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