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STATEMENT OP JOHN PRESTON OP GEORGETOWN. 



I enter for premium 10 pounds of comb and one pound 

 of extracted honey. Tlie honey was mostly gathered from 

 white clover, between June 20tli and July 10th this season, 

 by bees, a cross between blacks and Italians. It was stored 

 in two pound prize boxes placed on honey racks over mov- 

 able frames in Langstroth hives of my apiary in George- 

 town, Mass. 



John Preston. 



statement op mrs g. w. gage. 



'^ The dried apples I exhibit are Dutch Codlins. They 



were pared with an apple parer, sliced by hand, and dried 



in the sun three davs. 



Mrs. a. W. Gage. 

 Methuen. 



PEARS. 



The Committee on Pears have attended to their duty, and 

 respectfully report to the Secretary that they have made the 

 following awards : 



fS.OO. First premium to Wm. Burke Little, Newbury, for 

 Beurre Bosc. 

 3.00. First premium, to Wm. W. Perkins, Newbuiy, for 



Bartlett. 

 3.00. First premium, to Daniel Lunt, Newbury, for De 



Anjou. 

 6.00. First premium, to Edwin Bates, Lynn, for 24 speci- 

 mens Duchesse. 

 3.00. First premium, to J. 0. Brien, Bradford, for Law- 

 rence. 

 3.00. First premium to Edwin Bates, Lynn, for Bon de 



Jersey. 

 3.00. First premium, to A. J. Hubbard, Peabody, for 



Mai'ie Louise. 

 3.00. First premium to J. H. Hill, Amesbury, for Ornau- 

 dago. 



