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have some protection if it is to be kept at all. 

 In good condition it is a most beautiful and dainty 

 article of food ; badly put up, sticky and messy, it 

 is most uninviting and practically unsaleable. 



Another way of putting up extracted honey is 

 in the form of compressed paper, or fibre jars. 

 These are after the form of the jars used for send- 

 ing out cream, and are very cheap and serviceable. 

 The paper is waterproofed, and the package is 

 made in various sizes ; some which I received 

 lately were made to hold two pounds of honey, and 

 were fitted with a lid displaying the name and 

 address of the producer. These paper jars are 

 filled with the liquid honey, and the lid closed 

 down, when they may be packed to travel by rail. 

 Of course when the honey has granulated very 

 little packing is needed, the paper being of a very 

 tough and impervious nature. 



This package is a very good one indeed for 

 heather honey, and for any honey which granulates 

 rapidly and solidly, as charlock blends. It is not 

 quite so good as a jar for poor honeys of thin 

 consistency, or for some of the fine clover honeys, 

 many of which remain semi-liquid for years. 



It is a good plan when selling honey wholesale 

 to send screw-cap jars out in returnable boxes, 

 and each box should contain a dozen jars, "with 

 separators between. Such boxes will stand for 

 years, are a great aid to labour saving, and 

 prevent losses from breakage. 



