EXTRACTING 
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HONEY-PUMPS. 
Along with the adoption of power 
honey-extractors came the demand for 
pumps that would elevate the honey into 
tanks, for it is not always possible to build 
a honey-house on a sidehill where the ex¬ 
tractor can be located on one floor and 
the honey run by gravity into the tanks 
on a floor underneath. The earliest ex¬ 
periments with honey-pumps revealed the 
fact that very few water-pumps, even the 
rotary pumps, are suitable for pumping 
honey, for honey is very different in con¬ 
sistency from other liquids usually pump¬ 
ed. However, pumps especially designed 
for honey are now obtainable, and they 
are perfectly satisfactory. Belted direct 
from the cross-shaft of the extractor they 
frame or other foreign material may be 
thrown from the pocket of the extractor 
into the extractor can and find its way to 
the pump. In case the pump were posi¬ 
tively driven something would be sure to 
break. With a belt drive, the belt merely 
slips off. Then the pulley may be turned 
backward a few revolutions until the for¬ 
eign material, whatever it is, is removed. 
Usually, if the pump is worked by hand, 
back and forth, the bit of wood may be 
broken up and work may proceed at once. 
THE LOCATION OP THE EQUIPMENT. 
When for any' reason one does not wish 
to use a honey-pump, cut a hole in the floor 
underneath the gate of the extractor, mak¬ 
ing a pit into which a large pail may be 
run all the time that the engine is running. 
Consequently, the extractor can be kept 
empty, the honey being elevated to the tank 
as fast as extracted. It is not practicable, 
ordinarily, to elevdte thick honey more 
than eight to ten feet. 
The use of the honey-pump permits 
placing the extractor right on the floor 
where it may be firmly anchored, and 
where it is far more convenient than if 
elevated on a platform, even tho the plat¬ 
form be low. 
Some have attempted to drive a honey- 
pump by means of a chain. We do not 
regard this as advisable, for occasionally a 
bit of wood such as a broken corner of a 
set to catch the honey. This allows the 
extractor to stand on the solid floor. When 
the machine is set down on the floor it is 
much easier to get the combs in and out, 
and a great deal of time is saved. Of 
course, if there is a basement to the ex- 
tracting-house or to some other building 
close by into which the honey can be run 
thru a pipe into a tank, so much the bet¬ 
ter. 
' As is pointed out under Buildings, for 
the larger producer there are great advan¬ 
tages in having the honey-house built on a 
sidehill where there are different floor lev¬ 
els. The simplest arrangement of all is to 
have the honey from the extractor run by 
