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HONEY HANDLING. 



the bulk of our crop of that year, about 24,000 lbs., was sold 

 in this package, at twenty-three cents per pail, or about nine 

 cents per pound. ' 



Some of our readers will ask why we do not put up our 

 honey in these pails from the first, instead of putting it up 

 in barrels. We never do so, because we do not know what pro- 

 portion of each size will be required by the trade; because 

 honey in small cans occupies too much room, and is iiot so 



Fig. 226. 



THE FEICTION-TOP HONEY PAIL. 



easily moved out of the way; and especially because we keep 

 honey from the best seasons for the years of poorer crop, and 

 it keeps best in barrels. We have kept honey in pails for two 

 years or more, but the pail often rusts on the outside, and 

 becomes unsalable. The objections above given are very 

 weighty, in extensive production, when tens of thousands of 

 pounds have to be cared for, but the small producer 



