HARVESTING. 441 
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 itis placed a wooden frame D, notched, 
so asto fit onthe edges of the can. Itis on this frame that the 
combs are uncapped, and the cappings fall in the sieve, 
where the honey drains out of them, into the lower can. 
Our capping can is meant to hold the cappings of two 
days’ extracting. 
773. The all-metal extractors, of different makes, are 
the only ones now in use. Two-frame extractors are the 
most common, but we use four-frame extractors altoge- 
ther, one in each Apiary. These extractors accommodate 
eight half-story frames. 
774. In regard to the honey or uncapping knife, justice 
compels us to say that, so far, to our knowledge, there is 
but one which is really practical, the Bingham honey knife. 
Fig. 184. 
THE BINGHAM KNIFE. 
This knife does away with the annoyance of having the 
cappings stick to the comb again, after having been shaved 
off, because it is made with a bevel, which causes the shaver 
to hold it in a slanting position, so that the cappings cannot 
stick to the comb again, unless purposely allowed to do so. 
As fast as the combs are uncapped on both sides, they 
are put into the extractor, which may be turned by a boy. 
Care should be taken that the combs, that are placed oppo- 
site one another, be of nearly equal weight, as the unequal 
weight causes the extractor to swing right and left, 
fatiguing the boy and injuring the machine. 
775. A quiet, regular motion is all that is necessary to 
throw the honey out, and, in warm weather, it fairly rains 
