On 10-Dec-08, at 12:18 PM, James Fischer wrote:

>
> There are lots of practices that are too
> labor-intensive to scale up above 50, 100, or
> 250 hives, but there are zero practices from
> larger operations that don't "scale DOWN" to
> any/all of the smaller operations.
>

Hi Jim and all

Barrel feeding, which has recently been blamed by some for helping to  
spread disease etc, makes no sense in a two hive apiary, or 10.   
Baggie feeding in the hive, normally used by small beekeepers only,  
ensuring treatments(fumagillin) are taken by individual hives are  
starting to be seen by larger operators as worth the extra labour.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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