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A MANUAL OF BEE-KEEPING. 



held in place by a central spindle working in the 

 bottom of the can and the frame of the top. The turn- 

 ing of the handle gives motion, which sets the inter- 

 nal wire-frame revolving. The machine is chiefly appli- 

 cable to frame hives ; full honeycombs with their frames 

 are taken from the hive, the Bees smartly shaken or 

 brushed off, then if the honey cells are sealed, they are 

 carefully shaved off with a bent knife heated in hot 



Fig. 49. 



Fig. 50. 



water. The frames are placed in the wire cage of the 

 machine ; a few turns of the handle and the honey is by 

 centrifugal force whirled from the outer side of the combs 

 into the can : when one side of the comb is emptied, the 

 wire cages may be reversed without removal, and so bring 

 the second side of the comb to the outside, when a few 

 more turns of the handle will empty that. Every un- 

 capped cell will now be found drained of its honey, and 

 the frames may be at once returned to the Bees to refill, 



