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ered with cold water and boiled until tender. Strain the 

 juice through a flannel bag and to every pint of juice add 

 one pound of sugar; the jell should be boiled twenty 

 minutes after the sugar is added. Current jelly require* 

 but eight minutes boiling. 



SPECIAL I'llE.MlUM OFFERED BY MR. H. M. WHITNEY OF 

 LAWRENCE, FOR BREAD, BUTTER AND EGGS. 



•fl5. First premium, tOjMrs. M. S.Wright of Lawrence, for 



best loaf of bread. 

 •110. First premium, to^Mrs. C. W. Gowen of West New- 

 bury, for pound of best butter. 

 85. First premium, to Henry Phillips, Bradford, for one 

 dozen fresh hen's eggs, greatest weight, 41 ounces^ 

 347^ grains. 

 Gilbert E. Hood, Mrs. Fred S. C. Herrick, Mrs. George 

 L. Averill — Committee. 



HONEY. 



The Committee on Honey have attended to their duty^ 

 and respectfully report to the Secretary that they have 

 made the following awards : 



83. First premium, to John Barker, No. Andover. 

 $2. Second premium, to F. W. Poor, Haverhill. 



E. A. Emerson, H. N. Harriman, Warren M. Cole — 

 Committee. 



STATEMENT OF JOHN BARKER. 



Tlie honey that I enter for premium was taken from 

 hives in July, 1891. I shall have 150 lbs. surplus honey 

 this season. I had twenty swarms in the fall of 1890 of 

 which fifteen swarms wintered, sold one swarm, and have 

 twenty swarms now, mostly in frame hives; kind, common 

 or black bees. 



