placed underneath to receive it, will be of the finest quality. With regard to comb containing pollen, pass the back of a knife along each side of it in the way mentioned above, taking care not to crush the pollen, and proceed as in the former case. Your honey will still be of a good quality, although inferior to the first.

Put what remains of the comb into some kind of jar, which must be placed in the oven after the bread has been taken out. The honey which will be obtained by these means, although of inferior quality, may be employed as food for weak hives during the winter.

THE EXTRACTOR.

In order to separate the best of the honey from the comb, an extractor should be used. This method has the advantage of preserving the comb, which can afterwards be replaced in the hive, and, at the same time, of preventing the bitter taste of the pollen from being communicated to the honey.

The honey thus extracted from old comb, will be found to be of as good and fine a quality as that extracted from virgin comb.

The Schmiedl extractor is the one we have invariably used, and it seems to us the best.

It is thus composed: (1) a tub for receiving the honey; and (2) the extractor proper.

The diameter at the top of the tub should be about twenty-six inches, spreading out to about thirty at its base. One of the staves of the tub, on each side of it, M M, should be allowed to project about eight inches above the upper rim. To the uprights thus formed a cross piece

should be attached, in the centre of which the upper axis of the extractor revolves, K.

The cross-bar above mentioned should be fixed to the uprights by means of an iron hook and eye at each end; it can thus be removed and the extractor released at will.

The bottom of the tub should be convex, so as to facilitate the draining off of the honey.

It should also be provided with a tap, from which the honey may be drawn off into the jars in which it is intended to be kept.

2. The extractor; composed of a board about eighteen inches square, and about an inch in thickness. At each corner of this board is fixed an upright, made of hard wood, an inch square, and eight inches in height, I.

These uprights should have the outer corners rounded, and should be fixed very firmly to the angles of the board. In the centre of this board there is a square wooden axis, A A, which passes through it to the distance of about an inch below.

This projecting piece is provided with a ferrule, in the centre of which is a pin, revolving in a nut fixed in the centre of the tub.

This axis will be of the same height as the uprights on each side of the tub, MM; and its upper part, K, being arranged in the same way as the lower, will be held firmly in its place by the cross-bar, T T, placed over the two uprights.

In order to keep the four uprights of the extractor in their proper position, bind them together at the top by means of four iron rods about three-quarters of an inch in thickness.

Round these uprights, from the top downwards, some thin, but strong, twine should be wound, a small space being allowed between

each row. This string serves to hold the comb in its place, which otherwise would be thrown out by the centrifugal force; at the same time it allows sufficient space for the honey to pass through.

In order to keep this twine in its place, small pins should be driven into the uprights. They should be close to one another, and should project as little as possible from the woodwork.

Galvanized netting may be used as a substitute for the twine, and if this is nailed to the uprights, there will be no need to bind them together with the rods mentioned above. the upper part of the axis, just below the crossbar, there should be a groove, or fixed wheel, about three and a half inches in diameter.

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On the edge of the tub, at an equal distance between the two uprights, a piece of wood should be solidly fixed, projecting about two inches above the rim. On this revolves a wheel about one foot in diameter, connected with the groove in the axis by a strong cord.