State Bee-Keepers' Association. 121 



E. T. FLANAGAN, BELLEVILLE, ILL. 



1. Fifteen. 



2. No . Would like to do so but it is too uncertain. Supplies, bees 

 and small fruit. 



3. Have had as high as 1,000, have 350 now. Average per year 250. 



4. Movable. 



5 . Regular Langstroth frame, 8 and 10. 



6. Both. 



7 . Three-fourths extracted, one-fourth comb. 



8. 4^x4>j^xi>^ and 7 to the foot. 



9. Wood, and prefer the same. Don't use any with the t>^ inch sec- 

 tion. 



10 . White clover when it yields. For fall flowers smart-weed and Spanish 

 needle. All the other kinds do not amount to much, 

 ir. Cannot say now, have kept no record. 



12. Ditto. 



13. Both. 



14. No record. ^ 



15. No record. 



16. No record. 



17. No record. 



18. Yes, in my experience. 



19. Have tried alsike clover and found it a No. i for honey, and that 

 it pays best for aH plants planted for honey, as the hay and seed are valuable. 



20. Yes in all dry years, on first crop, and always on second crop, unless 

 very wet season. 



21 . Dry weather and second crop for seed. 

 22: Italian and golden carniolan. 



23 . Gather more honey, and gather when black bees will starve. 



24. Summer stands. 



25. Not 5 per cent, unless they starve. 



26. Don't put them in. 



27. Don't take them out. 



28. No. 



29. Not to my knowledge. 



31 . Not more that 75 or 80. 



32. By the bee-keepers taking more interest in them, and by the man- 

 agers of the fairs offering larger premiums, and giving better lacility for dis- 

 playing apiarian implements, honey bees, etc. 



