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retaining it at that heat until every particle is dissolved. You 

 simply heat it up enough to melt it, at least in a great many 

 cases that I tried it, to melt quickly and it will granulate 

 ever so much quicker. 



Mr. Abbott — I think this is something I know something 

 about because I have been handling it. We sell honey in 

 glass-jars, and pur grocery men don't want it when it is 

 granulated. We take it away at once whenever we find any 

 in the stores that's granulated. We re-liquefy by dry heat in 

 the glass, without taking the labels off. There is no more 

 heat than is necessary to liquefy used. It is heated until it is 

 absolutely clear, which we tell by holding up to the light, and 

 when clear there is no more heat applied. After done, it is 

 set in the stores and it will keep liquid four or five times as 

 long as it did the first time when it was put in before granulat- 

 ing at all ; and I believe if liquefied that way by dry heat it 

 will keep longer. That has been my experience. 



Dr. Miller — Mr. Abbott is bringing in another thing 

 again. He is right, too. You heat honey up to i6o, I don't 

 care how quick you do it, get it to that and seal it up, and 

 that will keep a long while without granulating. He has it 

 sealed up and that counts in the case. He is right in that. 

 We have the three different things. We have to sum them 



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Mr. Whitney — Do you loosen the cap of the jar? 



Mr. Abbott — No, sir; we use corks. There is a label 

 put on top and nothing is inter fere'd with. It is just left 

 as it is. 



Mr. Baldridge — I have had a little experience in hand- 

 ling honey with the family trade. We ought to teach people 

 to use granulated honey. I have been trying to teach my 

 customers for the last three years to use granulated honey. 

 I sell all my honey by sample. I carry granulated and liquid 

 and I give them their choice, and in three years' time I think 

 my customers have selected about four or five orders of 

 granulated honey. I must have a queer class of customers 

 to teach. 



Pres. York — You are a poor teacher, perhaps ! 



Mr. Baldridge — They won't buy it if they have their 

 choice. 



Mr. Whitney — I have a few customers who use gran- 

 ulated honey, or rather extracted honey, I should say, and I 

 have placed some of it in the stores at Lake Geneva, Wi's. 



Pres. York — Granulated extracted honey? 



Mr. Whitney — Yes, sir. My best trade in extracted honey 

 want the granulated. They sa3\ "We don't want the liquid 

 honey. Give us the granulated honey." 



Pres. York — Are there a lot of Swedes up there? 

 [Laughter.] 



Mr. Whitney — Not at all. The very fashionable trade 

 along the Lake, and I ship a good deal here to Chicago, gran- 

 ulated solid. They want it. I have sent it to Kansas City, 

 St. Louis, the slightly granulated. 



