1^2 First Annual Report 



p. J. ENGLAND, FANCY PRAIRIE, ILL. 



1. Twelve years. 



2. No. Farming and fruit growing. 



3. 40 colonies. 



4. Movable irame hive. 



- 5. 10 frames — frame 9)^x17^ . 



6. Extracted honey . 



10. White clover. 



12. 50 pounds. 



13. Home market. 

 15. 5 per cent. 



17. 12^^^ cents. 



20. No. 



22. Italian bees. 



24. Have tried both ways. 



25. Twenty-five per cent, either way 



26. Immediately after the first warm Jay in December. 



27. First of April. 



28. No. 



29. No. 



31, I quess 100. 



S. B. STRADER, BISMARK, VERMILION COUNTY, ILL. 



1 . I have kept bees ten years. 



2. I am a blacksmith by trade. 



3 . 50 colonies, spring count . 



4 . Standard L . hive, 8 frames and two division boards . 



6. Comb honey. 



7. About 45 pounds comb honey. 



8 . Sections 4^ ^4)4 x. i J4 • 



9 . Use wood separators . 



10. White clover and linden. 



1 1 . My record book say tweiity-five pounds. 



12. Comb honey only. 



13. Sell all my honey at home and in Danville, 111. 



14. My increase has been about 75 per cent. 



15. No extracted honey. 



16. 1673 cents for one pound sections. 



18. My bees work in the surplus case with separators as readily as with- 

 out. 



19. I have not had any experience with alsike. 



20. The Italian bees work on red clover. 



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