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depth, it is recommended that the next large size, the No. 17, with 

 eleven inch wide baskets, be purchased. Although the price is 

 slightly higher, the advantages of being able to extract two of the 



A large power honey extractor harnessed with gasoline engine. 



shallow combs in each basket instead of only one, if the beekeeper 

 adopts such frames at any time, or of making it easier to dispose 

 of if desired, overbalances the difference. 



The two-frame size is sufficiently large for the average beekeeper. 

 The larger extractors are diflScult to operate by hand, and it is only 

 the extensive beekeeper, with large numbers of colonies of bees, who 

 can practicably install the large power machines. 



Before honey can be extracted from the combs, the cappings must 

 be removed, and special uncapping knives are used for this. A com- 

 mon, very sharp, butcher 

 knife, however, can be used 

 for the purpose just as well. 

 The combs are shaved off 

 over an uncapping can and 

 fall on a screen, so that the 

 _ honey drains off and collects 



Uncapping knife. below, where it may be 



drawn off. A home-made 

 and far less expensive arrangement is constructed out of two com- 

 mon tubs, by replacing the bottom of one of the tubs by coarse 

 screen wire, bracing this well from below, and supplying the other 

 with a honey gate. A plain narrow board at the top, with a nail 



