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water would get too hot. It would 

 also be necessary to use hard coal. 



President Miller — Gentlemen, you 

 have heard the paper. It is now open 

 for discussion. 



Has anyone any questions to ask 

 regarding the Clarifying of Honey ac- 

 cording to Mr. Hassinger? 



I would like to ask one question of 

 Mr. Hassinger, myself — 



Would it not be cheaper in the first 

 insts.Ument, and more convenient, to 

 use steam than it would to use hot 

 water in the heating of this honey? 

 Steam could be produced by gas or 

 gasoline; a small heater would be all 

 that would be necessary, the steam 

 being' condensed after it passes through 

 the honey tank. 



Mr. Hassinger — I always understood 

 tliere was too much danger in usin^ 

 steam in heating honey as you have 

 to watch it too closely. 



Mr. Miller — President — Anyone had 

 any experience in using steam in the 

 heating of honey? Passing the pipe 

 through the honey tank? I would like 

 to hear from any one who has had 

 experience in this line. 



President — Miller — Anyone ever had 

 any different way of clarifying honey? 



Mr. Bull — How do I understand you 

 would heat honey in sixty pound cans? 



Mr. Hassinger — Honey bought in 60 

 pound cans, you have got to heat it 

 in 60 pound cans if granulated. Sixty 

 pound cans would work in this heat- 

 ing system. 



Mr. Bull — Your idea is to take the 

 honey as you produce it instead of 

 sorting it in 60 pound cans; put it in 

 large storage tanks; heat it up and 

 then can it as desired. 



Mr. Hassinger — If you only had one 

 tank and only extracted it as fast as 

 you could store it in that tank and 

 then heat it and can it, that would 

 work. 



Mr. Bull — I have exactly the same 

 plan under consideration you have. 

 Instead of using coal I use acetylene 

 gas. If a person had a house with hot 

 air furnace, could you not get suf- 

 ficient heat from the coil? 



The ordinary hot air furnace in the 

 home has a coil — one pipe going in 

 and one going out that supplies the 

 house with hot water. Could you not 

 get sufficient heat by a pipe running 

 in your tank and out again? In that 

 way you could get your heat for noth- 

 ing. Any time you could not have 



that, you could have a gas heater con- 

 nected with your motor system. 



Mr. Baxter — I think there would not 

 be any question of getting enough heat 

 but too much heat.. 



Mr. Hassinger — Have expansion tank 

 large enough so as to have enough 

 water circulating to keep from getting 

 too hot. 



Mr. Bull — If you could have heat by 

 gas, you could regulate your heat to 

 the scratch ; set it once and get it 

 going right and let it go. Instead of 

 canning up your honey in 60 pound 

 cans — run extracted honey in large 

 storage tanks and keep it warm enough 

 to keep it from granulating; then put 

 it in your small cans and sell it. 



President Miller — I would like to 

 hear from those who have not so much 

 honey to heat. 



Mr. Bunch — I do not heat it; I put 

 it in tin pails and sell it that way, 

 except we put some up in pint glasses. 



I think it is a mistake to put honey 

 up in glass; the glass bottle is liable 

 to break; and they cost more than 'tin. 



Ten pound pail, with nine pounds 

 of honey I think is a good package. 



President Miller — Depends on the 

 trade you have; a good deal a matter 

 of education. If you educate your 

 customers to buy in glass packages, 

 that js what they will demand, and 

 others want tin. 



Mr. Bull — In regard to glasses and 

 tin, I might say I have used tin ex- 

 clusively for several years; have used 

 glass more or less for the last year. 

 You ask the average consumer 

 whether he desires honey done up in 

 tin or glass, for the same weight of 

 honey, there is not one in a thousand 

 that would take the tin. 



You set that glass jar with 6 pounds 

 and six pounds of honey in tin, and 

 ask for the glass jar $1.00, and for the 

 tin, $.75, — they will take the glass, and 

 they will pay $.25 more for the privi- 

 lege of getting the glass. 



President Miller — We have with us 

 Mr. Snyder, from Auburn, Indiana — • 

 Will you tell us what your practice is 

 in preparing honey for market? 



Mr. Snyder — We have, like other bee 

 men, our methods of doing business. 

 They may not be the best yet we do 

 them, consequently we generally work 

 out our own way as best we have been 

 taught. 



When it comes to heating honey: 

 We, heat our honey in a tank with hot 



