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them, which may be done at odd intervals of time, which 

 may otherwise chance to be consumed in needless loitering." 

 To the farmers of Essex, a county containing so many 

 cities and large towns scattered over its territory, having a 

 population more dense than any territory of the same extent 

 in the United States, and so large a portion of it engaged in 

 manufacturing and other pursuits than those of agriculture — 

 thus affording very convenient and accessible markets for the 

 disposal of the products of the garden — these remarks are 

 particularly deserving of their consideration. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



HENRY WHEATLAND, Chairman. 



BEES AND HONEY. 



The Committee on Bees and Honey, regret to say, that 

 while luscious specimens of purest honey, richly meriting 

 something more substantial than mere "honorable mention," 

 and phrase of commendation, were offered for inspection and 

 taste, — pleasing the eye with the virgin whiteness of its inim- 

 itable texture, and affording indubitable promise that it would 

 titillate the palate of the niel-amateur, (Anglice, honey-lover,) 

 they had no power nor authority to bestow anything else ! It 

 had not seemed good in the judgment of the money-voting 

 power of the Society, to assign anything, in the shape of a 

 pecuniary reward, to those of our farmers who might have de- 

 voted any of their small means in providing comfortable homes 

 for " the little busy bees," or any of their valuable time in the 

 cultivation and care of the industrious tenants of the waxy and 

 sweetly odorous hive. The Committee regret this economy, 

 which appears to them to be unnecessary and impoHtic. They 

 think that the Society have not put a just appreciation upon 

 the manufacturing system and products of these great, or 

 rather little," exemplars of industry — of those whose instincts, 

 nurtured by the Creator himself, so closely border, and even 

 trench upon reason, as to make all who note them, believe, 

 with glorious old Virgil, that there is " fused into them a por- 

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