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Your Committee urge the expediency of contributors making 

 the entries, and exhibiting their articles on or before 12 o'clock, 

 M. of the first day ; being present with the Committee during the 

 afternoon, and handing in to them a written description of each 

 article, its peculiarities and advantages, its cost or selling price — 

 thus aiding the Committee in making up their report in a satisfac- 

 tory manner — advancing the interest of the contributor, and 

 affording information to the community. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



JOHN HEARS, Per Order. 



Dorchester, Sept. 28, 1854. 



REPORT ON BEES. 



Your Committee on Bees report : — 



That owing to the want of a premium, or some other cause to 

 us unknown, there is a great apathy among bee ow^ners in present- 

 ing any thing for our consideration. And yet agriculturally, 

 pomologically, scientifically, or si(/7iCologically considered, we 

 might suppose many would ivax warm upon the subject. The 

 raising of buckwheat or white clover in preference to other gi^ains 

 or other grasses, may depend on the prior question, whether one 

 intends to keep bees or not. And this gives the subject its agri- 

 cultural aspect. 



The raising of thin-skinned peaches and juicy pears in prefer- 

 ence to such as are woolly as serge, or have a skin like the rhi- 

 noceros, may depend on whether one keeps bees or not. And 

 that gives it i\ie pomological aspect. The celM^r membrane of a 

 hive, for the secretion of honey, gives it the scientific aspect. 

 And the looking for a heavy produce in the cells, and discovering 

 simply the depredations of the bee-moth, presents the sif/hcological 

 aspect, not to mention certain regrets incident to an awkward 

 handling of the insects. A full and candid treatise on the bee is 

 a desideratum yet. We want to know all the facts. Our friend, 

 Dr. Eddy, has not discussed the subject in reference to the injury 

 of fruit, on which the pubhc's mind is distressingly divided. It has 

 been declared bees tvill tiot injure fruit, and we verily believe they 



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