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necessarily expended in getting the honey upstairs. In a case 
like this, however, the honey can be unloaded on the upper floor 
without extra effort. 
On the upper floor is the power driven extractor. From it 
there is a pipe leading directly to a large settling tank on the 
floor below. The honey will thus never be handled from the time 
the uncapped frames are placed in the extractor until it is drawn 
Fic. 89.—Large honey house with all work on ground floor. 
into the sixty-pound cans to ship to market. This particular 
honey house is arranged with the idea of eliminating every pos- 
sible unnecessary item of labor. One man has produced, ex- 
tracted, and prepared for market something like forty thousand 
pounds of honey from five yards, with help only a few days 
during the busiest season. 
On the upper floor is the work shop, where hives and frames 
are assembled, and where extracting combs are stored, in addi- 
tion to the extracting room. On the lower floor is the big settling 
tank, the bottling room and storage room for honey. A better 
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