338 BRISTOL SOCIETY. 



Simeon Greenes Statement. 



I joined the Bristol County Agricultural Society, the year af- 

 ter it was formed. Since then, I have brought, almost every 

 year, something to its shows ; more to aid in keeping up the 

 society, than for the profit of a premium. I have written more 

 concerning bees, and the management of them, than all other 

 competitors. What little knowledge I have acquired, in forty 

 year's experience, I have been liberal in making known to 

 others. 



If I rightly understand, it is the intention of the society to 

 award their premiums to those who obtain the most and best 

 honey, in the cheapest way possible. The poor man does not 

 wish to go to Boston, for a glass hive, when a wooden one 

 will do better. Profit before fancy. For my own part, I am 

 convinced by experience, that wooden boxes, or hives, are those 

 that bees like the best. I have three kinds of patent hives, that 

 are all constructed on the same principle. In a part of them 

 the draw-boxes are faced with glass ; in the others, they are all 

 of wood, such as I ofier for your inspection to-day. I had 

 nineteen similar wooden boxes, filled with honey ; while, on 

 the other hand, as many glass ones were all imperfectly filled. 

 When two of these boxes are taken from one hive, (leaving, in 

 the mother hive, a supply for winter,) and are sold for $2 50, 1 

 consider it a good interest on the investment. 



I enter two hundred and eleven pounds of honey, almost all 

 of which was taken without killing a single bee. I kill no bees, 

 except they are likely to perish by the bee moth. 



Mansfield, October 9. 1849. 



Ornamental Trees. 



The committee, (John A. Hall, Chairman,) award to Sam- 

 uel A. Dean, of Taunton, the first jiremium, of ten dollars ; 

 he having set by the roadside, one hundred and three trees, 

 which are in a thrifty condition. 



