. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. EXTRACTOR. 178 EXTRACTOR. consists of a large tin funnel with perpen- dicular sides, having oblong V-shaped pieces of tin soldered across the bottom and up and down the sides on a perpendicular line and at regular intervals, so that when the wire-cloth basket is put in'-i<'e 't will be held. PETTIT HONEY-STKAINEB. away from the sides of the funnel by a dis- tance equal to the pieces of V-shaped tin. Inside the wire-cloth basket is
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. EXTRACTOR. 178 EXTRACTOR. consists of a large tin funnel with perpen- dicular sides, having oblong V-shaped pieces of tin soldered across the bottom and up and down the sides on a perpendicular line and at regular intervals, so that when the wire-cloth basket is put in'-i<'e 't will be held. PETTIT HONEY-STKAINEB. away from the sides of the funnel by a dis- tance equal to the pieces of V-shaped tin. Inside the wire-cloth basket is hung a square of cheesecloth, that practically does all of the straining. This cloth comes in contact with the wire-cloth basket, and as this has a space of practically half an inch between it and the walls of the funnel, the honey can run down between through tlie two-inch pipe into the barrel. The special feature of the Pettit strainer is that extra squares of cheesecloth can be substituted when the one already in shall be clogged with refuse. These can be rinsed out later on and be used again. One can, if he chooses, modify the shape of the funnel, using the ordinary form with tapering sides, but it is our judgment that the one shown in the illustration is better, Viecause of its vertical sides, for most of the honey will be strained through the cloth that hangs on the perpendicular line rather than that laying horizontally on the bottom- Mr. .John Baily, of Brrcebridge, Ontario, made an Alexander strainer, but he uses sloping sides. This can readily be put inside of an ordinary large funnel that can be pur- chased at almost any large hardware store; but in our judgment the Pettit idea in using coarse-mesh wire-cloth and cheesecloth for the strainer material would be better than using a line milk-strainer gauze only. EXTRACTING IN A LARGE WAY. Where the production of extracted honey goes up into the carload, or the tens of thou- sands of pounds, it is advisable to have an e
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