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First Annual Report 



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C. SCHRIER, PHOTONE. ILL. 



Twenty-four years. 



No. Farming, 



50 colonies. 



L. Irame hive. 



9x18, 10 frames per hive. 



Comb honey. 



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Noseperator. 



White, alsike and sweet clover; buckwheat. 



140 pounds last year, 10 pounds lowest. 



Home market. 



One swarm for four colonies. 



15 cents. 



No trouble without separators. 



40 acres of alsike clover mixed with timothy. (Three acres alfalfa. No 



No. 



Italians or brown Germans. 



Brown Germans make more honey and swarm less. 



In cellar. 



No loss in cellar. Ten per cent, in summer stands. 



November 20th. 



March 15th. 



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Fifty. 



I don't "bum" around the fairs with honey, I have a good market 



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MARK DAVIS, LISLE, DUPAGE COUNTY, ILL. 



About 16 years. 



Do not. Farming. 



About 12 colonies. 



Movable frame hives. 



12 inches long, 10 inches deep and 13 frames. 



Extracted honey. 



Have used metal; bees do not work as well. 



White clover, sweet clover, basswood and wild flowers, 



About 75 pounds. 



In villages near home. 



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