1907. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



57 



BIOGRAPHICAL. 



Four Veteran Bee-Keepers of Mass- 

 achusetts. 



JOSEPH S. CHASE, NO. I. 



Walden, Middlesex County, Mass. 



BORN IN LYNN, April 19, 1826. 

 Mr. Chase is still as keen and 

 alert in business, and even 

 more interested in bees, if possible, 

 than fifty years ago. 



This honey was in a large glass 

 globe, placed there by the bees, and 

 made a most attractive exhibit; but 

 as it proved difficult to sell in that 

 shape, Mr. Chase prepared some one 

 and two-pound boxes which sold read- 

 ily the next season, that of 1857, and 

 were warmly approved by the Boston 

 wholesale dealers. 



In 1858 the Essex county Agri- 

 cultural Society again gave him first 



*■ MASSACHUSETTS VETERANS. 



His youth was spent in Lynn and premium, and I think, still again in 



Salem, but -Ahile still a young man 1862. 



he moved to Manchester-by-the-sea, In 1868 he bought some rough hill 



where, in 1853, he bought two colonies and pasture land in Maiden and by 



of bees and ever since has given a skill and energy developed there the 



part of his busy life to their care and large nurseries the products of which 



study. have become a standard of excellence 



Only three years later we find him in New England. This is not the place 

 taking the first premium on bees and to speak of this part of Mr. Chase's 

 honey, given by the Essex county busy life, but the thousands of vis- 

 Agricultural Society. itors to the Mt.' Vernon nurseries 



