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First Annual Report 



ELIAS ROBINSON, CARMI, WHITE COUNTY, ILL. 



I. About twenty years, until the last two years, in box hives without 

 any care. 



I do not. I farm. 



I had last year 43. I have no average. 



Movable frame hive. 



Frame ^J4xi7^, ten frames each. 



Comb honey. 



Comb only. 



4)4m}4 sec. 



None of any kind. 



White clover in spring, buckwheat, Spanish needle, lady finger, &c.. 



Had nc) test until last year when it was 35 pounds. 



None. 



At home. 



Increase last year from 43 to 70. 



None. 



12 yz cents for comb honey. 



None. 



I do not know as I use none. 



None. I have some alsike sowed. 



Some years on red clover, big red clover . 



In fall when the blooms are short. 



Italians and hybrids. Italians. 



Longer tongues and death on moths . 



Upon the summer stands. 



I lost none the last two years by winter. 



I put none in cellar. 



I have none to take out, I use some protection . 



Not within five or six miles. 



None that I know of. . 



I do not know. 



I cannot tell, it depends on the pasture. 



To have a man or woman to look after it with a separate depart- 

 ment. 



33. In bee culture as in all other business, clean work and give the bees 

 something to work on with room to store honey. 



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