148 



First Annual Report 



w. 

 Two. 



M. UAGON, MACOMB, 3ICD0X0UGH COUNTY, ILL. 



2. No. Run engine, run for office, saw wood, hoe in the garden. 



3. About 80. 



4. Movable frame. 



5. 9'4X[7's (I think) regular Langstroth, eight frames to hive. 



6. Comb. 



8. 4^X4^X1 J^. 



9 A few wood, mostly without either. 



10. VV^hite clover. 



1 1 . Kept no record, none in excess of cost of wintering. 

 14. About 5 per cent. 



18. Don't know. 



19. No. Don't know. 



20. Think not. 



21. Don't know. 



22. Italians. Prefer Italians. 



23; Don't know anything about any others. 



24. Summer stands, chaff hive. 



25. About 5 per cent. 



26. None wintered in cellar in this county that I know ot. 



28 . Not that I ever heard of. 



29. No. No i-praying done in this county. 



31. All depends on pasture and the number your neighbors have. 



32. Same as all other products, displaying the product in the most 

 attractive form, glass jars, cases, &c. 



33. About tkree or four grades for honey, regulation size for frames and 

 sections. Better still to do away with the extiactor an .1 section nuisance; 

 produce all honey above queen excluders in an unwired brood frame; cut 

 out and market all honey as broken in suitable glass case or jar, and thereby 

 shut out all chances for swindlers as well as to simplify and cheapen the 

 production. 



H. BEAMLET, RALEIGH, SALINE COUNTY, ILL. 



1. Ten. 



2. No. Farming. 

 3- Fifty. 



4. Frame. 



5. 9x17 in., ten frames. 



6. Both. 



7. 60 per cent, for comb, 40 per cent, for extract. 



8. 4>^x4>XxiJ^ at present, formerly the i>^ in width. 



9. Yes, wood, formerly tin. 



10. Clover and Spanish needle, sometimes astirs and heartsease. 



' -!^asaril>:i-£i!Mi^^.. 



tvi^a^a^ C S^i fe atei^'Ai 





