CANDIED HONEY. 



CANDIKD HONEY 



AIKIN S PAl:*Ji;U-liAG HOXF.Y-PACKAGE FOR CANDIKD liONtY. 



FREAKS OF HONEY-CANDYING. 



This problem of honey-candying is very in- 

 teresting. It sometimes happens that of two 

 lots taken from the same barrel or can, and 

 placed in two self -sealing packages, the 

 honey in one will soon candy while in the 

 other it will remain liquid, notwitlistanding 

 that both packages have been subjected to 

 the same temperature and general condi- 

 tions. If this happened in the case of sealed 

 packages only we might suppose that the 

 sealing of one package was less peifect than 

 the other; but that the candying does not 

 depend on the sealing altogether is sliownby 

 the fact that the two lots of honey may not 

 ]be sealed at all, and yet one of them turns to 



a solid while the other remains liquid. It 

 should be stated that these instances are by 

 no means frequent ; indeed, they are rare ; 

 yet they occur just often enough to excite 

 our curiosity. 



Another interesting fact is that, while 

 honey may candy solid within six months 

 from the time it is taken from the comb, 

 when kept in the same cans under the same 

 conditions for a period of two or three years 

 a gradual change takes place, or at least has 

 been known to do so. We have seen alfalfa 

 honey after it had been in glass jars seven 

 years, and were told that it had candied 

 solid within a few months after being taken 

 from the extracting-cans. At the time we 



