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Mr. Moore — It is the only jar that is worthy of attention. 

 It has a lever fastening. 



Mr. France — We are not all familiar with beer-bottles ! 



Mr, Moore — Honey that gets air, if it has a chance to do 

 so will expand. If you fill a jar honestly full, it will come 

 out, every time. The only objection to the Lightning jar, 

 which is the only first-class jar on the market to-day, is its 

 expense. Any jar that has a leverage fastening, or a strong 

 steel bar,* ought to fill the bill. The jar Mr. Smith speaks of, 

 I am nx»t familiar with. He ought to put the Association in 

 communication with these people. If the thread of these 

 jars is good — the Mason jar is not good enough, it is too 

 short. 



Mr. Smith — Mr. York says he can't unscrew it. If you 

 will just pour a little hot water on the top, you won't have 

 any trouble unscrewing it. 



Pres. York — We almost gave away the last lot on that 

 account. 



Mr. Abbott — It seems to me nobody has touched the rea- 

 son why the Mason jar leaks. We use some, also another 

 jar, a round, glass one, and the glass lid fits far down on top 

 on a rump, and then a wire around the top and the sloping 

 hill on each side would come under, and that jar never leaks 

 honey. There is no chance for the honey to get up over. 

 The Mason jar with top screwed on, there is a space be- 

 tween the jar and the lid, and it never leaks until somebody 

 turns it upside down. You can fill it full and it will sit there 

 on the shelves for weeks and not leak ; but as soon as some- 

 body comes in and turns it up, there is that little honey up 

 behind, it will always stick there. It is the same way about 

 the milk. If you don't turn the jar, the Mason jar would 

 never leak. -Our jars do not. 



Pres. York — I think there is a jar that won't leak. 



Mr. Abbott — The two-pound Muth jar. 



Mr. Moore — I spent weeks traveling through Indiana a 

 year ago on this matter of selling honey, and I sold honey in 

 these jars that Mr. York handled, and the Roots are now 

 selling and using — the Tip-Top. For a 54-pound jar it is ab- 

 solutely the best. I am not plugging for Mr. York nor for 

 Mr. Root. It is absolutely a first-class jar to put honey in 

 to-day. Mr. Meredith puts horseradish in them. In my 

 travels I found these same jars used for everything — horse- 

 radish, jams, etc. — all over, and not a single grocer had a 

 complaint to make of it. 



Mr. Meredith — Is that the jar referred to there, having 

 the spring top? 



Pres. York — This is not the one. It is a different jar. 



Mr. Meredith — The one I put horseradish in I find a 

 very serviceable jar for both horseradish and honey. Horse- 

 radish is put up cold, but where honey is put up warm, I think ^ 

 often the contraction will form a vacuum that has a great 

 tendency, so much so of course, that with the rim removed, it 

 would be still tight. 



Pres. York — The question is : How do you keep honey 

 from passing out from under the rubber of a sealed glass 



