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THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 



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PREVENTING HONEY LEAKING FROM GLASS JARS. 



"How do you Iceep honey from passing out from under 

 the rubber of a sealed glass jar, creeping out as it were?" 



Pres. York — I use glass-top jars, and the honey doesn't 

 leak out from under the rubber ring under the glass. 



Mr. Moore — My brother has put up honey for the retail 

 grocery trade for six or seven years. He has always used one 

 package, and that is the jelly glass holding, I believe, eight 

 ounces of honey. It is put up like the historical Muth jar. 

 It has flat sides to make it look larger, and is creased here 

 and there, eight creases all the way around so it makes it 

 look really fine, and looks is considerable. That trouble of 

 the honey getting out of the jars is one that has always 

 troubled the people who put honey in jelly glasses. I used 

 to blackguard the other fellow by saying that they never 

 could get good honey in a jelly glass. My brother has a steel 

 stamp. It cuts out pieces of paper just the right size so that 

 when he puts the tin cover down, it makes it air-tight — not 

 air-tight, but honey-tight. 



Mr. Reynolds — That must be something like they are 

 using on the milk-bottles. 



Mr. France — Have you tried that with a mason fruit-jar, 

 putting a paper underneath? 



Mr. Moore — No, sir. 



Dr. Miller — The niilk-dealers have a piece of heavy 

 manilla paper cut with a stamp that makes a tight fit, and 

 they put that down in the glass bottle, and it stays there. You 

 can turn it upside down and it stays there. 



Pres. York — You can do that with honey, with the 

 ordinary jars that are used for honey — the screw-top jar with 

 a rubber band. 



Mr. Starkey — Should the honey-jar be so full as to have 

 the manilla paper touch the honey? 



Dr. Miller — I don't think it is absolutely necessary to 

 touch it. 



Mr. Reynolds — Yes, sir. 



Mr. Smith — I have sold a good deal of honey in jars, but 

 I have never had any leakage. I don't use rubbers. I use 

 a jar like the cylinder preserve jar, which has a screw top, 

 and on top of that it has a thick paper cut just to fit the lid, 

 and when you screw that down it lets the air pass but the 

 honey never leaks. You can turn it upside down. I have 

 had the best results with' that jar. 



Pres. York — I have had the same jar, but the consumers 

 couldn't get it open half the time. They would return it to 

 the grocer because they couldn't open it. 



Mr. Moore — This question of packages for honey is one 

 that I have observed considerable. I will have to condemn 

 the Mason jar first, last, and all the time. It is the cheapest, 

 most worthless jar that is made at the present day. My own 

 choice is the Lightning jar with that pry-over beer-bottle 

 snap. I believe you all know what it is. 



Pres. York — No, we don't all know. [Laughter.] 



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