488 HONEY HANDLING. 
the Apiarists crowd it to the markets at prices ranging as 
low as three cents. What is lacking? Proper distribution. 
Instead of shipping our honey to the cities, whence it will 
be partly shipped back to our village retailers after having 
passed through the hands of commission men, and wholesale 
merchants, we must cultivate home consumption. We must 
show our neighbors, our farmers, our mechanics, at home, 
that our progressive methods enable us to furnish to them 
the sweetest of all sweets, at nearly as low a price as syrups. 
The occasional depression of the honev markets is but tem- 
porary and its termination is only a question of time. 
841. It is important, in offering honey, whether to gro- 
cers or to consumers, to have it put up in neat and at- 
tractive shape. Comb-honey in 
sections weighing only a pound 
sells best, because itis, and always 
will be, a fancy article. < 
But in putting up extracted = 
honey, a one-pound package is : 
now too small. We must encour- 
age a consumption in which the 
expense of packing will not ma- 
terially advance the cost, and we 
find that, owing to this advance 
of cost, the one or one and-a- 
quarter-pound package is less in 
demand than it was a few years 
ago. 
842. Tin is the cheapest pack- 
age for honey, in small quantities. 
Our favorite sizes are two and-a- 
half-pound, five-pound, and ten- Fig. ue. 
pound pails. The two and-a-half- re ee 
pound pail is in great demand, and in the Winter of 1886-7, 
the bulk of our crop of that year, about 24,000 lbs., was sold 
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