MARKETING HONEY. 489 
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 cans occupies too much room, and is not so 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 
may, if he chooses, put up his honey, at once, in retail 
packages. 
$438. To stop the accidental leakage of honey in pails — 
for, owing to its weight, it will leak through seams that are 
water-tight— we simply rub over the leaky spot a little 
tallow-wax, prepared by melting beeswax with tallow or 
lard, in varied quantities. We also prevent the running 
over of pails of liquid honey, when transported in hot 
weather, by dipping the top edge of the pail in melted 
tallow-wax, before filling it. This puts a small rim of the 
ingredient around the outer edge of the pail, and the cover 
fits over it, air-tight. 
A great deal of honey is sold in glass jars, but our objec- 
tion to them is that granulated honey does not look well in 
them, and they are more costly than tin. Honey, in tin, 
can be put up gross weight, and although no one objects to 
the weight of the pail, this weight helps to pay for its cost. 
Those who use glass as a honey package, melt the honey 
before bottling it. 
For shipping honey in small packages, Mr. Aug. Christie, 
a large producer of Towa, puts it up in soldered cans. But 
