BEE MANUAL. 147 
metal (usually tin) cylinder, about 17in. in diameter by 24in. 
in height. It contains a square basket of tin work, with wire 
cloth covering on two opposite sides, sufficiently large to take 
two frames of the Langstroth hive, one on each side, placed on 
end, and resting against the wire cloth. A spindle, to which 
the basket is attached, passes down the centre, the lower 
end working in a bearing raised some height above the bottom 
of the cylinder, so that there is a space for honey to accumu- 
late below the bottom of the basket. The upper end of the 
spindle works through a bearing exactly in the centre of the 
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Fig, 68,HONEY EXTRACTOR. INSIDE BASKET, 
cylinder and attached to the inside of its rim by a light casting ; 
to the top of the spindle is attached a handle with gearing to 
multiply the motion, so that by turning rather slowly with the 
hand a considerable velocity is got up on the outsides of the 
basket. When combs are to be extracted, the capping of the 
cells having been removed with the uncapping knife hereafter 
to be described, one frame is placed against each wire cloth 
side of the basket and made to revolve until the honey from 
the outer side of each comb is thrown out, through the wire 
cloth, and, striking against the inside of the cylinder, trickles 
down to the bottom, to be withdrawn by the tap or honey-gate 
