200 THE BEE-KEEPER’S MANUAL. 
well if folded in writing paper, sealed up to exclude 
the air, and kept dry.” 
The Honey Extractor.—lt is cnly a few years ago 
that the valuable discovery was made by an Austrian 
or Hungarian bee-keeper (Von Hruschka) that honey 
could be slung out clean from the comb by means of 
centrifugal force; but from that date we have had 
quite a host of contrivances in one country after 
another for turning this fact to practical account. 
Every maker very naturally represents his own 
“extractor” to be either the best or else the simplest 
and cheapest; but without attempting to decide be- 
tween their competitive merits, we will simply present 
to our readers one which we know to have been highly 
commended by others besides its inventor, and which, 
moreover, carries with it the special recommendation 
that that inventor gave 
it to the world with- 
out ever seeking to de- 
rive from it any pecu- 
niary gain. We refer 
to the ‘ Rapid HEx- 
tractor,” desiened by 
Mr. T. W. Cowan, of 
i hi Ni i iM | ! Horsham, by whom we 
I ti i a have most obligingly 
MW ih been furnished with 
th i Hi a y the data for the fol- 
lowing description, as 
well as with the 
sketches from which 
our blocks have been 
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