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was a liberal supply of extracted honey in 

 sixty-pound cans on the floor of the warehouse. 

 He examined the various lots with a good deal 

 of care, sampling each lot two or three times to 

 make sure that the quality was good. The 

 thing that impressed the writer, however, was 

 not the care this man used in looking for the 

 best flavor, but that he refused to sample honey 

 in rusty cans. There was one shipment in cans 

 that were rusty on top and which had a rather 

 unattractive appearance generally. He sam- 

 pled hone}^ only in bright new cans that did 

 not show a particle of rust. When the writer 

 asked the commission man about the difference 

 in price he was informed that they were com- 

 pelled to sell the honey in rusty cans at from 

 one to three cents per pound less. In spite of 

 the difference in price this buyer would not 

 even look at it. Probably the shipper of that 

 lot of honey will blame the commission mer- 

 chant and charge him with stealing a dollar or 



