93 THE HONEY EXTBACTOK. 



It is sometimes called the honey slinger, because when operated the 

 honey is thrown or slung from the cells by centrifugal force, and drawn 

 off at the bottom into a receiving vessel. There are various kinds of 

 good extractors in the market, some one of which every apiarian should 

 have. They all act on the centrifugal princple, and consist of a can to 

 catch the honey, and a revolving wire cloth basket within, which 

 receives the comb and turns with it. This should be run with a gearing 

 above. A temporary one might be made with ingenuity, from a large 

 barrel, after painting it well with wax, but good tin ones are now so 

 cheap that it is best and cheapest in the end, to buy one of these. The 

 can should have a faucet near the bottom for drawing off the honey. 



The size of the frame used, regulates both the size of basket and the 

 can. The basket should be of light material built on a shaft which 

 turns in a nut at the bottom, by means of a single gearing at the top 

 Two opposite sides of the basket should be made of tinned wire cloth, 

 supported by strips of tin and a little larger than the frames to be 

 u ;ed. The wire cloth against which the combs lie in extracting, should 

 ba tinned, and not merely galvanized, for the acids in honey will cor- 

 rode the galvanized iron and poison it to some extent. It should have 

 from three and a half to five meshes to the inch. The basket should be 

 two or three inches from the bottom to give some space for honey below 

 and as much above to prevent it from spraying over the top. The 

 cylinder is made of good tin, with heavy wire in the top to strengthen 

 it. The bottom is made of a round piece of tin, a little larger than the 

 space to be filled by it. From one side cut out a trangular section to 

 the centre or a little beyond, and in its place sodder a similar piece a 

 little larger, and previously bent in to the shape of a trough. The 

 bottom, thus fixed will permit all the honey to run towards the centre 

 and then down the trough through the faucet. There is fastened on and 



