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usual treatment of not being milked, it must be considered an 

 attempt to influence the judgment of the Committee by improper 

 means, and, under such circumstances, the rules of the Society 

 prohibit an award of premium." 



Honey. 



The Committee, Henry S. Packard, Chairman, say " that 

 there appears to be much more interest exhibited in the raising of 

 honey, than in former years, and that the samples presented 

 were very beautiful indeed. There were ten entries of honey, 

 and the Committee award to 



Simeon Green, of Mansfield, 1st premium, - $3 00 



Barnam Hall, of Raynham, 2d " - 2 00 



Simeon Greeiis Statement. 



I give you a short account of my bees for the present season. 

 They have not done as well this year as usual, it having been 

 too dry. I have eighteen swarms or colonies of bees, all but 

 one, working in two kinds of patent hives. From these I drew 

 thirty boxes from the upper story ; part of them were well filled, 

 the others not as well as I could wish. From the draw boxes 

 (the tare being deducted) there remained one hundred and one 

 lbs. of honey. The under boxes or hives, where the bees em- 

 dody, live and subsist, (with the same deduction as above) con- 

 tained five hundred and forty lbs. of comb and honey, being a 

 great sufficiency for the coming winter. My honey is all taken 

 from the upper boxes — leaving the bees to live in the large 

 boxes below — except they are declining under the ravages of 

 the bee moth. In this case, I apply the torch. 



My honey is sold from sixteen to twenty-five cents per pound. 

 I have more calls for it than I can supply. Stock in bees well 

 managed, is as good as twelve per cent., and I presume I have 

 realized that for five years past. I send six boxes for inspection. 

 If I have acquired any information in the management of bees, 



