168 PRODUCTION OF EXTRACTED HONEY 
gether, tank and all. Then came an extractor in which two 
comb baskets revolved inside the can, but requiring that the combs 
be lifted out and turned around, after one side had been emptied. 
The latest machines are reversed by the simple pulling of a lever 
without stopping the machine. The larger sized ones have a 
Fie. 81.—A power driven extractor, 
capacity of eight frames, so that something like forty pounds 
of honey is extracted from a set of full combs at each operation. 
Power.—For extensive apiaries, the power driven extractor 
(Fig. 81) isa great economy, for while the operator is uncapping 
one set of combs, the machine will empty another. A small 
gasoline engine costing from thirty-five to fifty dollars is suffi- 
cient to furnish the necessary power, and, during the extracting 
