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HONEY PRODUCTION. 



from daubing anything, or from attracting robbers (666). 

 Tliey are supplied with strong- handles. 



'S'l'l. We have said that we do not usually take honey 

 from the brood chamber, but in an emergency we sometimes 

 extract even from combs containing brood. Sealed brood is 

 not injured by the rotation but one should abstain from taking 

 combs containing unsealed larvaj. 



TYS. In the extracting .room, a man uncaps the combs, 



Fig. 208. 



THE DADANT CAPPING-CAN. 



as fast as they are brought. He stands before the capping- 

 can (fig. 208). The capping can is formed of a lower can B, 

 24 inches wide and 14 inches high with a slanting bottom, a 

 faucet and a central pivot C. On this lower can is placed 

 another can A, 23 inches wide and 22 inches high, with a 

 coarse wire cloth bottom resting at the center on the pivot C. 

 The upper can acts as a large sieve. On the top of it is placed 

 a wooden frame D, notched, so as to fit on the edges of the 



