i68 ' First Annual Report 



JACOB LEIBROCK, MASCOUTAH, ST. CLAIR COUNTY, ILL. 



1 . We have had bees for 40 years. 



2. Since 1S71 we made it one of our specialties. 



3. We have had from 48 to 500. 



4. Movable comb hives. 



5. We use chaff simplicity and dovetailed hives. 



6. We work for comb and extracted honey. 



7. About 1-3 comb. 



8. 4 1-4x4 1-4x2 is our section of late years. 



9. We use tin separators. 



10. White clover in spring, goldenrod, Spanish needle, smartweed in 

 the fall. 



11. We have had from nothing to 148 pounds . 



12. We have had from nothing to 190 pounds. 



13. Our main market is St. Louis. Mo. 



14 and 15. We always work for honey and will therefore have very little 

 increase in colonies. 



16. i6}4 cents. 



17. Scents. 



18. Some will and others won't. 



19. We plant alsike clover for our bees and think it is a very good honey 

 plant. 



20 . I never saw bees work on red clover as much as they did last sum- 

 mer, and we made a little crop of red clover honey. 



21. We can only obtain red clover honey when the season is very dry 

 so the blossoms will be very small. 



22. We have different strains but prefer the Italian. 



23. Italians will gather more honey in a poor season. 



24. On the summer stands. 



25. This winter we lost 12 per cent. 



26. We never had bees in cellar. 



28. We never had foul brood in our locality. 



29. We never lost any by spraying with poisons. 



31 . We never keep more than 73 colonies in one place if we can possibly 

 make it. 



32. We have been to the St. Louis fair with bees and honey for the last 

 six years and we always exhibit from eight to ten thousand pounds of honey, 

 and I think if every bee keeper would work as much on fairs as we have done 

 honey would be more widely introduced by this time. 





