04 PROFITABLE BEE-KEEPING 
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. 
