State Bre-I^eepers' AssociatTon. 155 



THOMAS S. WALLACE, BREEDER OF ITALIAN QUEENS AND BEES, CLAVTON. 



ADAMS COUNTY, ILL. 



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Twentv-two. 



2. I run an apiary and a farm . 



3. About one hundred. 



4. Movable frame hives. 



5. Lang. 10x1734^, from 8 to 10 to the hive; one of my own 14x11 3,;', 16 

 to the hive. 



6. For both. J 



7. About three-fourths for extracted honey, one-fourlh for combtioney. 



8. 4 i-4x4j<iXi>< inches wide. 



9. 1 use none so far. 



10. Wiiite and alsike clover. • 



11. I could not answer for I have kept no account . 



13. At home or in neighboring towns. 



14. Have kept no account. 



16. About 15 cents per pound. 



17. Ten cents. 



18. Never tried with separators, but would think not. 



19. I have had with alsike and think it very tine. 



20. My bees work on red clover more or less ever}' year. 



21. I don't know. 



22. I have Italians. I prefer them to any other I have seen ' 



23. Larger, more peaceable and easier to handle. '' 



24. Inthecellar. 



25. About ten per cent , and there are some weak ones. 



26. Owing to the season, from the 15th of November to the ist of 

 December. 



27. I usually take them out the ist of March, out this spring February 10. ^: 



28. No, and I never saw any. ' • , I 



29. No it is not practiced in this locality. =^ 



31. I don't know. I aim to keep about one hundred colonies. | 



32. In the first place good liberal premiums should be awarded to induce ■ I 

 the people to try to get their honey in as tine a shape as possible, and then ' -' ^i 

 it should be placed on exhibition in a suitable place where it would show to J 

 good advantage and make as attractive an appearance as possible, and then 

 a superintendent of that department that would take great interest in show- 

 ing it. ■■- 



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