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EXTRACTING 
Coarse Strainer 
-Water jacketed 
Heating Tank with Oil 
Stove underneath 
Screened Window 
Covered Storage Tank. 
Can Filler. 
6olb Can 
The straining can is set inside the large 
tank, the cheese cloth resting on the bottom 
of the latter. Two or three inches of clear 
honey should be poured in at the start to 
prevent the cheese cloth from becoming 
clogged. As the new honey is poured in, it 
gradually percolates thru the cheese cloth 
into the main tank outside, the level in the 
two cans always remaining the same, or 
practically the same. As the work pro¬ 
gresses the inner can should be raised so 
that the cheese cloth will be several inches 
from the bottom of the tank. This should 
not be done, however, until the main tank 
is half full. It will be seen that all foreign- 
material that- will float will be kept away 
from the cheese cloth. When the work is 
over the inside tank may be raised so that 
all of the honey in it will strain out. How¬ 
ever, as long as the cheese cloth does its 
work the process is continuous, for the 
honey may be drawn out of the main tank 
as soon as it becomes full. From this time 
on it should be drawn off only fast enough 
to keep it from running over. The greater 
the depth of honey about the cheese cloth 
strainer the less the probability of the cloth 
becoming clogged. 
When the work is over and the main 
tank finally emptied the' cheese cloth will 
strain the last of the honey inside the 
straining tank without clogging apprecia- 
Floor Plan of Honey House. 
j ;screened Window 
