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their summer stands, in common and in movable frame hives, 

 without any extra care or precaution in protecting them from 

 the winter's cold. In suitable hives, with proper care, they 

 can be made very profitable. 



The improved breeds of bees, with improved hives such as 

 the "Massachusetts movable comb Bee-Hive," made by Mr. 

 Alley of Wenham, (which we have proved to be good), and 

 the " Lynn movable Comb Hive," made by Mr. Russell of 

 Lynn, shows that we need not go out of our own county to 

 procure the best hives, or the best bees, for Mr. Alley 

 makes the raising of Queen Bees a specialty. These, with 

 other improved facilities for keeping bees and assisting them 

 in their industrious efforts, with improved facilities of handling 

 them with safety, have made Bee-keeping of the present day 

 easy of successful attainment, especially when compared with 

 the uncouth hives and barbarous method of former days in 

 obtaining the honey from them by killing the bees, obtaining 

 very inferior honey at that. Now, by taking out the little 

 movable boxes, in which the bees store their surplus honey, 

 weighing one pound and upwards, which are placed over and 

 by the side of the movable combs in the main hive, which if 

 filled at the time any particular flower is in bloom, from which 

 the bees are gathering honey, then knowing just what the honey 

 is made from. Samples of three kinds of honey were shown 

 by Mr. Alley at the Fair, each having a distinctive taste ; they 

 were made from White Clover in June, Pepper-wood in August, 

 and Golden rod first of September. He called that made 

 from White Clover best ; we, however, for our taste, preferred 

 that from Pepper- wood and Golden rod, they having more 

 flavor. 



Preserved Fruits, in jars and tins, are now almost indispen- 

 sable on sea and land ; in the home of the mariner while 

 plowing the ocean, as well as in the home of the farmer who 

 plows the land. Great improvements have been made in late 

 years in canning fruits, and at this year's Fair a lady of our 

 county exhibited 74 different varieties of fruit of her own pre- 



