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made with the four articles above-named, they have refrained to 

 submit any of (he statements made, as to the materials used, or 

 the manner of making the bread exhibited. Practice, and that 

 alone, will make the housewife perfect in this useful art. 



SAMUEL WALKER, Chairman. 



Bees and Honey. 



You offered two premiums for the best display of honey, 

 one of eight, the other of four dollars. They were sufficiently 

 liberal premiums. The raising of bees demands but a very 

 small original outlay. If the enterprise be at all successful, 

 the remuneration is large enough for its own reward. There 

 are, however, desiderata which justify the encouragement in 

 your power to grant. First of these, is a hive that can be 

 conveniently attended, and answering all the ordinary pur- 

 poses demanded for the deposit of honey. These are, a prin- 

 cipal hive and coimecting boxes, with easy and well arranged 

 passages, and which can be added or removed at pleasure, with 

 the least possible disturbance to the bee. Second, an arrange- 

 ment that, preserving the above conditions, shall effectually 

 prevent the intrusion of the bee-moth, or bee-pirate. Third, a 

 feeding apparatus, — and lastly, a bee nutriment, that shall en- 

 sure the life of the insect in deficiency of a supply of honey, 

 and, if practicable, increase the quantity of honey. There are 

 many hives constructed, that rather resemble the Cretan laby- 

 rinth than a bee-hive, the geography of which, is about the 

 study of a life-time. 



The committee, having these points in view, hoped for an 

 opportunity of instituting comparisons between different hives 

 and different results of experiments. In this they were disap- 

 pointed. One hive was presented, but having no pretensions 

 above many others in frequent use ; and a few glasses of honey 

 were presented by another contributor, without any model of 

 the hive, or statement of facts. 



■ We know that Norfolk county could furnish 20 or 30 com- 

 petitors, and we trust another year will elicit facts, to show 



