128 First Annual Report 



HENRY WILLSON, CLINTON, ILL. 



I . Fourteen years. 



3 . Forty to seventy. 



4 . Movable frame hives. 



5. Langstroth, mostly 9^^x17^, have some iiX square but don't like 

 them. 



6. Generally comb honey. 



8. 4XX4X. different widths. 



9 . I use and prefer wood for separators. 



10. White clover, heartsease or smart weed, milk weed and many smaller 

 sources. 



1 1 . All the way from 10 pounds to 80 pounds. 



13. Generally in the home market. 



14. The colonies would more than double if I would let them. 



16. About i2>^ cents. 



17. 18 cents. 



18. They will for me, I think. 



19. No experience. 



20. Yes, they work hard, but don't seem to accomplish much. 



22. I prefer the Italian. 



23. They gather more honey in bad seasons when honey is scarce 

 and commands a good price. Winter better. Comb honey is not damaged 

 by moth. 



24 . Part of them each way. 



25. Always better in the cellar. 



26. I St to 20th of November generally. 



27. 15th of March to loth of April according to the weather. 



28. None in this county that I know of. 



29 . No. 



30. Spraying is not practiced here much. 



31 . Perhaps 100 stands; this is guess work, however. 



33 . My bees are wintering on honey dew and are doing rather poorly 

 at present. I sold several hundred pounds of black honey dew at 5 cents a 

 pound the past season. Most people like it at that price. 



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