150 1^1 RST Annual IvKPORt 



A. J. BLANKINSHIP, 



MANIFACTURER OF 



SIMPLICITY BEE-HIVES, SMOKERS, ETC. 

 Eldorado, Illinois. 



Dealer in Apiarian Supplies, Bees, Queens, etc. 



1. About five years. 



2. I do. That and manufacturing hives. 



3. About 30 colonies. 



4. Movable frame hives. 



5. i7'sX9 's, 8 frames to a hive. 



6. Comb honey. No extracted. 



8. 4 1-4x4 1-4x1 J<i. 



9. Metal on part, for market. 



10. White and red clover, aster, Spanish needle and heartsease. 



11. I suppose about twenty pounds. 



13. At home, what I sell. 



14. About twenty-five per cent. 

 16. 12^2 cents. 



1 8. I think not. Mine do not. 



19. No experience. 



20. At times they do. When tlie blossoms are small When the clover 

 is large they don't work on it. 



21. Clover that is cut about the first of June then remains dry. The 

 Italian bee will store honey here fast, but the black bee will make nothing 

 for I have tested tliat to my owu satisfaction. 



22. Italian. Italian. 



23. They are the best honey gathers and don't sting like the blacks, and 

 remain on their combs when handling them. 



24. Their summer stands. 



25. My loss has been very small. Out of 37 colonies this winter I have 

 lost none yet, and my bees appear to be in good fix. 



28. None in this locality. 



29, Nevipr have heard of any here. I don't think there has ever been 

 any spraying done here. 



31. I never have had a chance to cest that. Seventy-five or one hundred 

 colonies is the largest amount that ever has been kept within three or four 

 miles in this locality. 



32. Neat and controlable hives without patented and unnecessary fix- 

 tures. One pound section boxes well filled and capped. This part of the 

 state is behind in the bee business. Last year there was considerable inter- 



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