I signed off with:
 
>> no matter what is written, no matter how carefully, somebody's
>> going to challenge it.
 
And Trevoro Weatherhead responded:
 
> Well, Aaron, I won't let you down.
 
> ... My aim is less than 24 hours old.  How do I do this?  By putting
> in combs and taking them out after 4 days....
 
Yes I touched on this in "confining the queen" although I didn't cover
all the bases by mentioning empty frames.  Hard to cover all the bases
in 100 lines or less.
 
> There is work by Prof. Woyke from Poland that shows as the age of the
> larve increases, when you are rearing queens, the number of ovarioles
> decreases.  This then in turn means that the queen will not be able to
> lay the same number eggs in a day.  This then means less bees and
> therefore less honey gathered.
 
This is also covered somewhere in the second chapter (I believe, but if
it's wrong I'm sure someone will point that out) of Laidlaw's
_Contemporary_Queen_Rearing_.  But the claim of more ovarioles assuring
superior queens was left in doubt.
 
Trevor wrote:
 
> Of course, there are many other factors that will affect the quality
> of the queen produced but I can start by selecting the youngest larvae
> possible and therefore getting more ovarioles per queen.
 
I wrote:
 
> It is also noteworthy that the sooner a queen rearing beekeeper can
> change the destiny of the developing larva the more likely they are
> to have better results.
 
You say poTAto and I say poTATo....
 
> By the way, was there ever a proceedings or papers published from the
> ABF seminar?
 
Without fear of reprisal I can say surf to:
         http://www.airoot.com/beeculture/98mar/98mar4.html
 
Aaron Morris - thinking I'd better check and double check that URL!