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3. How much honey gathered to date? 



4. Is the honey gathered No. 1 or not ? 



Thos. B. Allen. Stirrup Grove, 111. 1. 31; 2. No 

 white clover; not good; ;>. About ;36 Ib.s.; 4. Not 

 very jrood. 



A. B. Anthony, Coleta, 111. 1. 26: 2. All right for 

 ne.\-t year; 3. 300 lbs. comb, 400 lbs. extracted; 4. 

 No. 1. 



F. X, Arnold, Deer Plain, 111. 1, 102; 2. The croj) 

 is over; 3. About 3300; 4. ', honey-dew, the remain- 

 der from fall flowers. 



C. M. Beall. Clayton. 111. 1. 8; 3. Enough to win- 

 ter on : 3. None. 



Peter Blunier, Roanoke, 111. 1. .52; 3. With me 

 the season i.s past; 3. No surplus; about enough to 

 winter on; i. Katherdark. 



Jas. Bertrand, Bristol, 111. 1. 12; 3. Fair for next 

 year; 3. 180 lbs.; average 1.5 lbs. per colony; 4. No. 

 1; amber, mostly sweet clover and alsike. 



M. Bevier, Bradford, 111. 1. 40; 3. Very poor; 3. 

 Total 90 lbs. ; 4. Dark. 



5. N. BhH-k, Clayton, III. 1. 30; 3. Bees will re- 

 quire foed for winter; 3. No honey gathered. 



C. Covell. Buda, 111. 1. 35; 2. Fair, as the red rlo- 

 ver furnished honey this season; 3. Nearly 1.500 lbs. 

 surplus: 4. Very good; amber, being basswood and 

 red clover mixed. 



Dadant \- Son, Hamilton. 111. 1. 3.50: 2. None; 3. 

 None; 4. Have not harvested enough to make up 

 for feed that we have to give. 



Peter Dahl, Granville, 111. 1, 135; 2. None; .3. 300 

 or 400 lbs.; 4. No. 1. 



I'. J. England, Fancy Prairie, 111. 1. 28; 2. Bees 

 adriina- slowly to their stores; 3. 600 lbs. .extracted; 

 4. A shadf below No. 1. 



.T. D. Everett, Oak Park, 111. 1. 30; 2. Good; 3. 

 !>ilO lbs. : 4. Vfs. 



E. T. FlanMB-an. Belleville, 111. ]. 2.50; 3. None- 

 all over now: 3. 3.509; 4. No. 1 fall. 



J. M. Hambaush. Spring. 111. 1. 120; 2. Honey 

 crop all in for this year; 3. Will be in the region of 

 7.500 lbs., 4 I3 poor; balance fair: no gilt edge. 



B. W. Hayek, Quincy. 111. 1. 97; 2. Fall .season so 

 far. Sept. 37. good; 3. 2.5001bs., expect 1000 lbs. more; 

 4. No. 1, amber. 



Wm. Litrlp, Marissa. 111. 1. 60; 2. Spason past; 3. 

 600 lbs.; 4. Have abundant stores to winter on. 



Dr. C C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 1. About 200; 2 

 Nix: 3. 30: 4. No. 



Adam Phelps. Springfield, III. 1. 10; 3. None at 

 all; 3. None; 4. Answered above. 



Gpo. Poindexter. Kennev, 111. 1. 73; 3. About I4; 

 3. 3.50 lbs. heartsease; 4. No. 1. 



Jas. Poindexter, Blooniington, 111. 1. 160; 3. All 

 vanished: 3. No surplus; enough bv strong colonies 

 to winter on: 4. No. 1: heartsease mostly. 



Daniel E. Bobbins, Payson. 111. 1. 30: 3. None; 3. 

 325 lbs. ba.sswood; 4. Verv nice, as I left the honey- 

 dew in the hives. 



Geo. F. Bobhin.s, Mechanicsburg, 111. 1. 64; 2. 

 Rather late to prospect; 3. Get out! 4. What! the 

 only complete failure I have ever known in my 13 

 years of bee-keeping. 



F. A. Snell. Milledgeville, 111. 1. 113; 2. Honey- 

 flow over; 3. 1.50<ilbs.: 4. Very good. 



P. E. Vandenburg. Jerseyvllle. III. 1. 37; 2 Very 

 poor: 3. About 100 lbs. extracted; 4. No, not what I 

 call No. 1. 



Walter M. VanMeter, Era, Tex. 1. 7; 2. Prospects 

 light; 3. .50 lbs.; 4. Honey very good. 



F. C. Vibert, Hockanum, Conn. 1. 7; 2. Poor; 

 reasons given in July report; 3. 38 lbs.; 4. No. 1. 



E. Whittlesey, Pecatonica. 111. 1. 70; 2. The sea- 

 son is past; 3. 100 lbs. all told; 4. Third grade. 



Bradfordton, 111., Oct. 30. 



VEI.I.OW BKKS TOO TENDER. 



I have given a fair test, side by side with my 

 dark Italians, and I am well satisfied that they 

 are too tender for our climate, latitude 43 

 They mav be all right farther south. 



Allen, Mich., May 10. C. H. Austin 



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HALF-T>EPTH FRAMES FOR EXTRACTING. 



Question.— I worked two colonies of bees the 

 past season, for extracted honey, using the full- 

 depth Langstroth frame in the upper stories. 

 These frames were filled half full of light honey 

 and half with dark honey, the light being in 

 the upper part of each frame and the dark in 

 the lower part. What I wish to know is, if I 

 were to use half-depth frames could I secure 

 the light honey in the upper set and the dark 

 in the lower ones'? If so, it would save mixing 

 the honey when extracting, as was the case the 

 past season, for I could not extract the light 

 honey without having the dark all mixed with 

 it. 



A7iswer.—l very much doubt your ever hav- 

 ing an experience again similar to the one out- 

 lined above, as seasons vary so much. Indeed, 

 I hardly see how you could have had such a 

 result this year; for in all my experience I 

 never saw a whole set of frames that were even- 

 ly half filled with white and dark honey. It is 

 no rare occurrence to have one or two frames 

 filled so that, practically speaking, they would 

 be half filled with white honey and half with 

 dark; but to have the whole upper story thus 

 filled is something that does not happen more 

 than once in a lifetime. Half-depth frames ar.e 

 recommended by some of our most practical 

 bee-keepers for upper stories for extracting; 

 but I never heard any claim as coming from 

 them that the light and dark honey could be 

 kept separate by using such frames. Some 

 years we have a large yield of white honey 

 with little if any dark honey; other years just 

 the reverse of this is the case; hence it will be 

 seen that the supposition hinted at by the 

 questioner could not possibly come to pass in 

 such years; for when white honey was abun- 

 dant the bees would use nearly all the room 

 furnished, in storing white honey, finishing out 

 the very bottom parts of the combs with dark. 

 When there was a light yield of white honey 

 with a good yield of dark, just the reverse 

 would be the case; namely, there would be a 

 small quantity of white honey in the upper 

 part of the upper half-depth frames, while the 

 rest of said frames would be filled with dark 

 honey, and all of the lower ones. The only 

 way that I know of to avoid mixed honey is, to 

 either extract all of the white honey as soon as 

 the white-honey harvest is over, putting back 

 the frames of comb for the bees to use during 

 the dark-honey flow, or take away the frames 

 of white honey at the end of the white-honey 

 flow, and substitute other frames in their 

 places. Where one has the time that can be 

 spared for extracting in the summer, the for- 



