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handle to hold it by. When a section 

 of comb is cut up in this manner, the 

 visitors look on with interest, and, 

 when it is finally divided, the supreme 

 moment of attractiveness seems to have 

 arrived. The contrast between the 

 snowy whiteness of the sealed surface, 

 and the golden dripping sweetness of 

 the interior, as the pieces come apart, 

 and are spread out upon the rack over 

 the dish of crystal glass, is something 

 so delicious as to be simply irresistible. 

 Even ladies in silk dresses and kid 

 gloves, laugh and joke with their 

 mustached attendents, as both parties 

 make way with the dainty bits of 

 sweetness. And then the boys and 



Canadians were certainly ahead in 

 some things. 



BEAUTIFUL PACKAGES FOR EXTRACTED 

 HONEY. 



But this is not the only form in which 

 honey is sold at the Canadian fairs. 

 Extracted honey is put up in small 

 glass bottles of fancy shape that can 

 be sold for five cents. It is put up in 

 little toy, glass lanterns; in glass 

 "revolvers," in vinegar cruets, molasses 

 pitchers, tin pails, etc. By the way, I 

 saw the most handsome tin pail for 

 honey that I have ever seen. The 

 cover is of the friction top style, but, 

 instead of pasting on a paper label 



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girls — well, it must be seen to be com- 

 prehended. I was told that one exhib- 

 itor sold $70 worth of honey in this 

 way, in one afternoon, and I can well 

 believe it. One exhibitor told me that 

 he had sold his entire crop of honey in 

 this manner at the fair. You will 

 notice, too, that the honey brings 20 

 cents a section when sold in this man- 

 ner. When I told them that I had never 

 seen anything like it at our fairs on 

 this side of the line, there was great 

 surprise, and exclamations that the 



that may come off or become soiled, 

 the label is enameled right on to the 

 surface of the pail. I brought home 

 two of the pails and made a photograph 

 of them. The ground work is of a pale 

 cream color. The shading back of the 

 letters forming the word 'Honey," all 

 of the other letters, except the produc- 

 er's name, and the clover blossoms are 

 a dark blue; the bee, the word 

 "Honey," the border around the orna- 

 mental work on the back of the pail, 

 are all of gilt. Part of the bee, and 



