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require a team, while I am trying to work out a system in which there 

 is no transportation from one yard to another during the entire season, 

 except that of the man who does the work. 



The manner in which the extractor is set up to do the work will 

 depend upon the surroundings. We have three extractors, and each 

 is set up in a way different from the others. Where we extract in the 

 cellar the extractor is set nearly a foot above the floor, and then a hole, 

 or pit, nearly two feet deep is dug, in which to set the strainer-tub and 

 cans to be filled. Of course, the sides of this pit are boarded up. .\t 

 another apiary the honey-house is built over the cellar, and here the 

 extractor stands directly upon the floor, the gate being placed over the 

 hatchway, the straining and canning of the honey being done in the 

 cellar. The honey runs out of the gate, falls down through the hatch- 

 way, and drops upon the strainer below. At the other yard a solid 

 platform, nearly three feet high, is built in one corner of the honey- 

 house. This platform is large enough for the extractor, for the man 

 to stand who turns the crank, also for one or two supers of combs to 

 stand, side by side. An extractor at this height from the floor allows 

 room for the strainer, and for a man to stand upon the scales below the 

 honey-gate of the strainer-tub. 



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Cheese-cloth Strainer on Top of a Tub. 



This tub is set under the lioney-gate of the honey-extractor, 

 and the cans a-re filled from the honey-gate in the side of the 

 tub. Extracting, straining, and canning are all in operation at 



the same time. 



STRAINING THE HONEY. 



An extractor with a strainer in the bottom probably possesses some 

 advantages. One is, that it can be set at a less height from the floor. 



