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turned round slowly, and the speed gradually in- 

 creased. The effect is that the honey will be thrown 

 out upon the tin walls of the cage, or the inner wall 

 of the extractor, and run down to the bottom, to be 

 afterwards drawn through a treacle-tap. When one 

 side of the comb is emptied it must be reversed, that 

 is, simply turned over, not round. 

 Then the bottom bar of the frame 

 ^\dl again move round first. The 

 combs, as emptied, may be re- 

 placed in the super, and allowed 

 t3 remain until some of the drip- 

 pmg honey has fallen. The super 

 may then be placed upon any 

 stock requiring additional super 

 loom, or returned to the stock 

 iiom which it has been taken, 

 either for additional super room 

 01 for clearing of the dripping 

 honey. 



A honey cistern (Fig. 40) is a 

 P^fc necessity, even though only a 

 few stocks are kept for the pro- 

 duction of drained or extracted 

 honey. The price need not deter any bee-keeper from 

 investing in such a useful article, for one fair colony 

 will produce surplus sufficient to pay the cost the first 

 season. A convenient size is 2^ feet deep and 12 

 inches in diameter, holding over one hundredweight. 

 The name first given to these cisterns — honey ripeners 

 — is being dropped, and rightly so, as it is found that 

 extracting honey before it is properly ripened in the 



Fio. 40. 



