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accurately any liquid, going down to as small 

 a quantity as half a pint, and as large a 

 (|uantity as a gallon, where one has a com- 

 plete nest. Of course, suitable laljels are to 

 be used on these pails when they are full of 



GRADUATED TIN PAILS 



honey ; and, furthermore, none of these pails 

 can be turned upside down without leakage, 

 unless, indeed, the honey is candied so solid 

 that it will not run in cold weather, as 

 is often the case with a well-ripened article. 

 These packages are used principally by re- 

 tailers who purchase their honey by the bar- 

 rel, and put it into pails about as fast as 

 their customers want it. They are to be 

 carried about, however, rather than to be 

 shipped long distances. 



The packages thus far shown for holding 

 or retailing honey are ma le of glass or tin. 

 In most cases when the honey is emi)tiedout 

 of them they are useful for some other i)ur- 

 pose. The Mason jars, or any of the screw 

 top cans, can be used for the iireserving of 

 fruit, the honey tiunblers for jelly, and the 

 tin i)ails for general culinary purposes 

 around the home. But sometimes the good 



hou.sewife has too large a supply of these 

 very articles already in the house, and does 

 not care to buy any more packages which 

 she can not use. For this class of trade we 

 know of nothing better than the different 

 forms of paper milk bottles, which, during 

 recent years, have been put on the market? 

 They are self-sealing, and if tight enough to 

 hold milk, ought to be good enough to hold 

 honey. 



They are very cheap, for a box of them 

 containing two dozen bottles or i)ackages 

 can be purchased for the insignificant price 

 of 25 cents. A quart of honey, or a i)int, 

 could be sold in such packages very cheai>ly, 

 and if the imrchaser objects to the more ex- 

 pensive glass and tin containers, furnish 

 these. 



For large quantities of from 200 to -500 lbs., 

 kegs and barrels may be used. All sucli 

 should be perfectly tight and bone dry: aiid 

 to prevent the honey from soaking into the 

 wood and wasting; or to prevent the taint 

 of thewood fromgoing into the honey, the bar- 

 rels sliould becoated on the inside with paraf- 

 fine or wax, as explained under Bahkei.s. 

 But wooden packages can be used only in the 

 Eastern or Middle States. In the Western 

 States, especially Arizona, Colorado. New 

 Mexico, and California, square tin cans hold- 

 ing about 60 lbs. of honey are about the only 

 shipping-package that can be used ; for the 

 dryness of the climate will cause the wooden 

 packages to shrink so as to be entirely use- 

 less Avith any kind of treatment. 



The square tin cans of the West have 

 come to be so popular that they are now, to 

 some extent. dis[)lacing l^arrels in the East ; 

 for tlie wooden packages have a fashion of 



