NECESSARY EQUIPMENT 57 



Special Equipment for Extracted 

 Honey. — For the production of extracted 

 honey, an extractor, of course, is necessary. A 

 small two-frame hand extractor will be suf- 

 ficient for the small apiary. A commercial 

 apiary will need at least a four-frame machine, 

 and many of them use eight-frame or larger 

 machines. 



To extract the honey the beekeeper takes 

 the frames of honey from the bees and carefully 

 cuts the cappings from both sides of the comb 

 with a warm loiife. The frames are then 

 placed in the baskets of the extractor and 

 turned very rapidly ( Fig. 4 ) . The motion of 

 the baskets whirling inside the big can throws 

 the honey out of the combs and against the side 

 of the can. It is then drawn off through a 

 faucet in the bottom of the extractor. Ex- 

 tracted honey differs from strained honey in 

 thus being thrown out by centrifugal force, 

 instead of being strained through a cloth after 



