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erable honey — thirty or forty pounds — before it would be 

 necessary to let the honey flow from it. 



In case of small frames, like the ones I have described as 

 most desirable to my mind, I should prefer that the rack might 

 hold four frames. Mr. O. J. Hetherington has found that 

 winding the rack with fine wire, serves better than wire-cloth 

 to resist the combs, while permitting the honey to pass. The 

 rack should set so low in the can that no honey would ever 

 be thrown over the top to daub the person using the machine. 

 I think that a wire basket, with a tin bottom, and made to 

 hook on to the comb-rack (Fig. 58, «, a) which will hold pieces of 

 comb not in frames, a desirable improvement to an extractor. 

 Such baskets are appended to the admirable extractor (Fig. 58) 

 made by Mr. B. 0. Everett, of Toledo, Ohio, which, though 

 essentially like the extractor of Mr. A. I. Boot, has substan- 

 tial improvements, and is the cheapest, and I think the best 

 extractor, that I have used or seen. 



Fig. 59. 



I have tried machines where the sides of the rack (Fig. 59) 

 inclined down and in, for the purpose of holding pieces of 

 comb, but found them unsatisfactory. The combs would not 

 be sustained. Yet, if the frames were long and narrow, so 

 that the end of the frame would have to rest on the bottom 

 of the rack, instead of hanging as it does in the hive, such 

 an incline might be of use to prevent the top of the frame 

 from falling in, before we commence to turn the machine. 



The inside, if metal, which is lighter and to be preferred 

 to wood, as it does not sour or absorb the honey, should be 



