THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW • 85 



Section 15. Relates to size of package admissible. 



2. "The law prescribes that a package to be admitted to the 

 parcel post shall not exceed seventy-two inches in combined length 

 and girth. 



'Tn measuring the length, the greatest distance in a straight 

 line between the two ends of the parcel shall be taken, while the 

 girth is the actual measurement by a tape encircling the parcel at 

 its thickest part." 



Section 2'?. — "Admissible liquids," which would include honey. 



2. "AA'hen in glass bottles, the quantity must not exceed twelve 

 ounces, liquid measure. The bottle must be very strong and must 

 be enclosed in a block or tube of metal, wood, papier-mache or 

 similar material ; and there must be provided between the bottle 

 and the block or tube a cushion of cotton, felt, or other absorbent. 

 The block or tube, if of wood, must be at least three-sixteenths of 

 an inch thick in its thinnest part; if papier mache or similar material, 

 it must be at least five thirty-seconds of an inch thick for bottles 

 holding more than two ounces. The block or tul)e must be rendered 

 water-tight by an application of parafine or other suitable substance.'^ 



It will be noticed that this rule applies to bottles holding more 

 than two ounces, and there is no change in the regulations regard- 

 ing the half-ounce sample mailing bottles we are using for mailing 

 samples of honey. 



3. 'AMien in a metal container, the weight of the parcel must 

 not exceed eleven pounds. The container must be hermetically 

 sealed and enclosed in a strong box, and securely wrapped." 



I do not see anything ^•ery fa\-orable in the regulations relative 

 to sending bees by the pound through parcel post. 



Have been weighing some honey and find that a tweh^e-ounce 

 bottle, liquid measure, will hold from sixteen to eighteen ounces of 

 honey, according to its density. As sample bottles are sold by 

 liquid measure, and as honey weighs a little less than one and a 

 half times that of liquids, one can easily figure out the size of 

 sample mailing bottle to order for a given amount of honey. 



I have before me a gallon syrup can with screw ca]). It is 

 exactly the same as the regular five-gallon can used for shipping 

 honey in the wholesale way. This gallon can weighs empty lo 

 ounces, and holds 11^ pounds of honey of fair consistency. I do 

 not knoiv but would think that a corrugated paper package to con- 

 tain it while in transit would weigh about a pound. For an eleven- 

 pound package of extracted honey to go by parcel post, I would 

 think that a syrup can of the above description, but holding one- 

 sixth less honey (the size of the 10-pound friction top pail), would 

 be a desirable size. 



