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124 First Annual Report 



D. A. CADWALLADER, PRAIRIE DUROCHER, RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILL. 



1. Three. 



2. No. Gardening, fire insurance, justice of the peace and notary 



public. 



3. One first year, four second year and nine I have now. 



4. Seven colonies in frame and two in box hives. 



5. i7^x9}i outside measure, 8 frames to the hive. 



6. Comb. 



7. No extracted produced. 



8. 4%x4}(xiys. 



9. Wood. No experience with metal. I like the wood. 



10. White clover, Figwort. Heartsease. Goldenrod and the Asters, in 

 Autumn. Not much Basswood here. 

 II; Twenty-five pounds . 



12. None. 



13. At home. 

 15. 200 per cent. 



15. None. 



16. Fifteen cents per pound. 



18. I don't know. 



19. No. 



20. No; only in fall. 



21. Don't know. 



22. The common, have had no experience with any other bees. 



24. On summer stands. 



25 . One fourteenth per cent. 



26. Cellars are not used here for bees. 



28. No. 



29. No. 



30. No spraying done here at any time on trees. 



31 . Cannot tell. 



32 . Cannot answer at this time. 



33. All who love to keep bees should be united for mutual benefit. In- 

 duce the cultivation of alsike and alfalfa clover by all means, to see if they 

 are good honey plants, and young persons — bee-keepers — should commence 

 to plant basswood trees, and finally all bee-keepers should enroll their names 

 in the State Association and get ready for the World's Fair at Chicago. 



