. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. getlier for the pmpose of shipping. By this means we are enabled to pack 100 pails and covers in a common barrel. While friend Jones has done so much to develop tin packages for extracted honey, it will be seen that friend ('. F. :Muth. of Cin- cinnati, O., has been equally active in giving us nice packages made of glass. Below we illustrate the four jars that he The smallest size is what Mr. Muth calls the " dime"' jar, and has been lately introduced. It holds alunit
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. getlier for the pmpose of shipping. By this means we are enabled to pack 100 pails and covers in a common barrel. While friend Jones has done so much to develop tin packages for extracted honey, it will be seen that friend ('. F. :Muth. of Cin- cinnati, O., has been equally active in giving us nice packages made of glass. Below we illustrate the four jars that he The smallest size is what Mr. Muth calls the " dime"' jar, and has been lately introduced. It holds alunit live ounces. The price of these is per gross, ship- l)ed from Cincinnati, which would be a little over two cents each. Corks and labels would make them toward three cents each. Coinit- ing the live ounces of honey worth five cents (putting the honey at 16 ets. per lb. for such small quautitiesi. your dime jar would cost you eight cents, allowing two cents profit to the retailer. One gi-eat trouble with honey in glass is its candying property; but as a great many like it best in a candied state, this offsets a part of the objection. Another thing: These small jars may l)e very quickly melted by setting them on a thin board laid on the stove where it is not very hot. .\ large trade has also sprung up in honey put up in jelly-tumblers. Theso are of two sizes, chietly : those holding + lb. and 1 lb. They are made honey-tight by laying a piece of soft paper over the tumbler before the tin cover is pressed on, and then tearing off the surplus paper. Covering the paper on the side next the honey, with the while of an egg. makes a hermetically close joint. The tumblers cost only three and five cents each respectively. On the next page we pre- sent you with a handy stand for exposing for sale honey put \\\>. invented by Geo. V. Wil- liams, of Xew riiiladelphia, V':m HOMEY ^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may h
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