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State Bee-Keepers' Association. 119 



GEO. POINDEXTER, KENNEY, DEWITT COUNTY, ILL, 



1. Kept bees 30 years. 



2. Made beekeeping a specialty for 15 years. 



3. Kept an average of 150 a year. 



4. Use movable frames . 



5. Hives — Langstroth— frames ly^xgX, 8 frames. 



6. Work for comb honey. 



7. Extract from two outside frames only of a good honey season . 



8. Use 6x6 two lbs. and 4XM/4 one lb. 



9. Don't use separators at all. 



10. Honey resources are white and red clover— bass wood and heartsease. 



11. About thirty pounds. 



12. About five pounds. 



13. Sell about one fourth of my honey at home. 



14. About one third — but I return them to the hive. 



18. No experience with separators, think they will store better without. 



19. Alsike is first class for bees for the first two years then dies out. 



20. Yes, when the prods are short made by dry weather with rain about 

 the time they burst open. 



22. Keep the Italian full stock and raise from best marked or that pro- 

 duce the most honey. Prefer the Italians decidedly, they don't put all the 

 honey into the surplus cases and give you the trouble of feedmg it back to 

 keep them from starving their young as the blacks do. 



24. In cellar, except when they are on honey dew. 



25. Loss in cellar 10 per cent., on summer stand 50 per cent. 



26. Before the combs become frosted, the later the better. 



27. When the buzzards appear, if no signs of bee cholera, for they never 

 come to return to the south . 



28. Have never seen any to know it . 



31. A good hotiey season in my locality will give honey to 150 stands; 

 in a poor season to scarcely 50. 



32. By getting the associations to offer good premiums so that it will 

 stimulate any bee-keeper to look out for his pocket-book . 



33. I have interviewed all the farmers in this vicinity in regard to alfalfa 



but get no satisfaction from them worth anything to bee-keepers. I think 



sweet or bee clover is the best plant to sow along the branches or creeks 



where the banks will grow it without anyone cutting it and stock cannot 

 molest It. 



