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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. 



843. 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 Iowa, puts it up in soldered cans. But 



