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two per case on the shipment. It surely is a 

 poor policy to save fifteen cents by using a sec- 

 ond-hand can in which to ship the honey to 

 market and lose from sixty cents to one dollar 

 and eighty cents per can in making the sale. 

 If the writer had not already been convinced of 

 the value of new packages for honey this ob- 

 servation would have convinced him. 



However, another example was in store, 

 with comb honey this time. The honey was well 

 graded and in new shipping cases, but seconds 

 had been used which showed dark streaks of 

 wood instead of the clean white of the first qual- 

 ity shipping cases. This was on the floor of 

 another store so that the two examples did not 

 occur in the same establishment. Although 

 the honey was of about the same quality, the 

 more attractive package sold for fifty cents 

 more per case than the other. Someone had 

 bought inferior cases and had probably saved 

 a few cents in the price, but it cost two cents 



