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you put your Jioney in one of these places and let it stay 

 long enough, I am of the opinion it will not granulate, and ,- 

 it will be as Mr. Whitney says, it will be waxy. That will . 

 fill your trade, Mr. Niver. That's one of the things all of us ;■ 

 need to learn, whether it be extracted or comb, to keep it in 

 a warm place if you have any, or a place warm enough, long 

 enough, and it will be non-granulating. 



Mn Wilcox — Won't you say in an open vessel ? 



Dr. Miller — You must remember my weakness. I am a : 

 comb-honey man. Extracted honey should be open enough 

 to allow the air to penetrate. 



Mr. Kanenburg — I had an experience with my own honey. 

 I have an attic where I keep my honey for over winter, in ., 

 an attic with just shingles on the roof where it is zero almost 

 all of the time. I have had honey there for at least two 

 years. I had a couple of boxes up there in the summer, and . 

 in the winter I let them stay right in the attic. 



Dr. Miller — How near zero does it get in that attic in ■■■: 

 the summer? 



Mr. Kanenburg — There is no zero there in the summer! 



Mr. Wilcox — I have had quite a considerable experience 

 in the line suggested by Dr. Miller, and I have found from 

 repeated trials that it does not granulate if you will evaporate 

 it. It is no longer a syrup, but it gums; but it is impractica- > 

 ble to do that for the market, therefore I cannot see much 

 benefit, and some honey, if placed where it will absorb 

 moisture from the air, will granulate. It isn't in the char- * 

 acter of the honey, but simply the care that is taken of it. 



Pres. York — What we want is something that will pre- -■ 

 vent it from granulating in grocery "stores. The great dif- 

 ficulty I have found in selling honey in the city is to prevent 

 the granulation in all kinds of temperature. ' Some of the 

 groceries are warm and some are cold, some Hon't have fire 

 all night in the winter. What we want is more than a little ' 

 sample of it. If a honey-bottler had a carload or two he 

 would get a good price for it. What we want is a large 

 quantity that doesn't granulate. 



Mr. Whitney — I stated that I took a number of frames 

 from my honey-house that had passed through zero weather, 

 and that didn't granulate. Honey in a shipping-case would 

 k^ep, it seems to me, from granulating Just as well as that 

 comb honey from the honey-house during zero weather, pro- 

 viding it has been thoroughly ripened. I don't know why the 

 grocer cannot keep tons of it unless as Mr. Wilcox says, the 

 weather should be very damp. Of course, it would gather 

 moisture, but in any ordinary dry weather I don't see why 

 they couldn't keep tons of it through zero weather from 

 granulating. 



Mr. Hutchinson — It is possible we don't know yet what 

 makes honey granulate. Mr. Boardman claims to have some 

 secret process, at least he doesn't tell what it is, that pre-\ 



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