Not to take away from Michael Bush, because he is an excellent bee
keeper and wonderful sharer of knowledge and I count him as one of my
better online beekeeping friends (I don't count many as friends, just
associates), but michael's operation has remained at about maximum 50
hives since he began 25-30 years ago. Michael isn't a commercial
beekeeper, he is a large scale hobbyist beekeeper who likes to dabble
with anything experimental expecially when its organic or med/chem free.

Just to keep the record straight, I only have 48 hives currently
starting from 4 hives 2 years ago after returning to beekeeping after a
few year absense.

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Scot Mc Pherson
The Mc Pherson Family Honey Farms
Bradenton, FL USA
http://beewiki.linuxfromscratch.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/OrganicBeekeepers/
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