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jar, creeping out, as it were? I suppose the best answer is, 

 Don't use that kind of a jar. 



Mr. France — I agree there, but, in case you do, take 

 heavy manilla paper and put on top first. I tried that to get rid 

 of some of them. I use them because after the fruit-season 

 the grocers have a lot that I can get at a discount. Put a 

 heavy manilla paper on top of the Mason jar before putting 

 on the cover. 



Mr. Clarke — I don't see why honey cannot be put up in a 

 Mason jar just the same as fruit can. Now, we know that if 

 there is any leakage with fruit, the fruit is spoiled. Why is 

 it that our best housekeepers use the Mason, or Ball, or some 

 of these jars? Merely a question of air-leakage which prob- 

 ably gets to the honey. With fruit it is spoiled if there is 

 any leakage, so I don't see why we couldn't put up honey 

 just the same way as fruit. 



Mr. France — I submit that Mr. Abbott hit the point 

 there. If it is carefully carried and put right side up it will 

 be all right, but our honey is tipped upside down. If honey 

 were carefully handled it would be all right. 



Mr. Clarke — I think entirely different from Mr. France. 

 I know it is the law of the ladies that are successful with 

 putting up fruit (I have done a good deal of it myself) that 

 it is invariably turned upside down. The next day, if there 

 is the slightest particle comes out, the bottle is put to one 

 side, but not one in 50 will leak, and there is no possible 

 means of the hot fruit creeping. 



Mr. Abbott — Mr. Clarke seems to ignore one fact. You 

 create a vacuum and you get the weight of external air equal 

 to tons. It is hot, and when it cools it leaves a vacuum as 

 they bear down on that lid with force. When you put the 

 honey in there is no air pressure at all. 



Mr. Clarke — You are mistaken entirely about that. In 

 screwing down it makes the vacuum on top of the liquid, 

 you turn it upside down and the liquid goes to the bottom, 

 therefore the pressure must be on the liquid underneath and 

 therefore it would come out from underneath the stopper. 



Mrs. Stow — I think Mr. Abbott is correct. 



Mr. Abbott — The idea of the vaccuum is correct. Turn- 

 ing the can upside down doesn't make any difference. 



Dr. Miller — I would like to ask a practical question as to 

 what Mr. France said — whether that piece of manilla paper 

 put on the top is to go down inside of the jar or over the 

 top of the glass? 



Mr. France — The way I have done, it sets down in, and 

 the edges turn up a little. 



Dr. Miller — That's coming right back to the milk-bottle 

 arrangement again. 



Mr. Kanenburg — The Mason jars are not made like the 

 milk-bottles, they are wider down below than on the top. 

 How can you put a piece of paper in there to make it flush 

 with the jar? You cannot get it tight enough then. 



Mr. France — I said there was a portion of them that j 

 leaked. I condemn the package, but it is a great help to use i 



