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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 tlie can. It is 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 KNIFK. 



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 c&ases 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 



