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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



117 



SMALL PACKAGES FOR EX- 

 TRACTED HONEY. 



By A. E. Willcntt. 



IN biiildiiifi" up a home niarket for 

 extracted liouey, I find it a bad 

 practice to sell in larse packages 

 to the consumer. The gallon can is too 

 large, for this locality at least. 



I sell more exti-acted honey in quart 

 Mason cans, than in any other pack- 



trouble of this kind, but it was when I 

 failed to put it u|) in "proper style." 

 If the honey is put in the cans hot, 

 and the covers well screwed down, I 

 have no further trouble with them, 

 and the honey does not "ooze out un- 

 der the covers'". The covers some- 

 times get jammed or imperfect; if 

 such covers are used'trouble may fol- 

 low. 



In the past, I have had a few cus- 

 tomers who preferred to buy honey in 

 gallon cans; I suppose on account of 



ANOTHER MEW OF MR. WILLCUTT'S APIARY. 



age, and consider it one of the best 

 l>ackages for extracted honey. The 

 pint can is a good seller but costs 

 nearly as much as the quart and for 

 this reason I do not use itas a regular 

 package. For a small package I use 

 tlie .telly tumbler and this, too, I find 

 to be a good seller. And if properly 

 put up will not leak. 



I see some are having troul)le with 

 the Mason can on account of its lealv- 

 ing honey. I, too. have had some 



getting it a little cheaper. Last fall' 

 1 called on one of these and tried to 

 sell them some honey. But they said, 

 '"Xo, I guess not, I think we have 

 some of that we got of you a year or 

 two ago."' No sale. 



Now, I think that if I had sold this 

 l)arty, only a quart can of honey at 

 each call, I would still be selling to 

 them in "small doses." 



A feAV such cases as the above have 

 fully convinced me that the quart can 



