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floor; in this case the block should be high enough to 

 take a vessel of some sort under the gate. 



To have the honey-tanks situated under the extractor 

 saves a vast amount of manual labour. The physical 

 effort required to lift a large crop from the honey-gate 

 to the storage tanks per medium of a bucket becomes 

 exhausting. Whenever practicable the tanks should be 

 filled by some scheme of gravitation. 



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HONEY-TANKS. 

 Hardly two bee-farmers are alike in the matter of 

 honey-tanks. A large number favour a pattern similar 

 to the drauiing tank; others again, use a square tank, 

 constructed of plate iron riveted at the corners. These 

 latter before filling are brushed over the inside with hot 

 beeswax. The tank generally preferred is illustrated in 

 Fig. 38. It is made of heavy gauge tinned steel with a 

 cone bottom and a 3 inch honey-gate. The large cover 

 remains on during the progress of the extracting, but 

 the smaller lid is taken off to allow the bucket to drain. 

 When two buckets are in use, one is left thus while the 

 other is filling. When the tanks are full, the small cover 

 is replaced, and the honey left to clear. 



