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Date: | Tue, 4 Oct 1994 09:15:44 -0800 |
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On September 28th, Allen Dick wrote:
<This sounds like real work! Not only does one have to have enough hives
<to compare, but he has to manage them to make honey, while carefully
<measuring results.
<We have tried to do a bit of this, but a lot of the time I am not sure if
<it is the queen or the position in the yard, etc. And if it is the queen,
<is it her age, her upbringing, the particular batch of sperm she is
<processing at the moment, or is it her own genetics? I must confess to
<not having the patience to keep the kind of records necessary to come to
<valid conclusions.
(...)
<We simply haven't had the dedication to evaluate the progeny beyond
<observing that they are average or better in most regards.
As some of you might already know, it is now possible to sore your beekeeping data in a meaningful way, so that conclusions regarding selection criteria can be easily drawn. I am of course referring to that Danish computer
program BIDATA,developed for the Danish beekeeper association Edbi, and available in several languages,
including english. I quote from their info text:
TO ORDER PLEASE CONTACT:
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
EDBi
ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD?
3 Peder Kjaersgaard 3
3 Rimmersvej 20, Gl.Rye 3
3 Dk-8680 Rye 3
3 Denmark 3
3 Phone +45 86 89 86 42 3
@DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY
best regards, Hugo
Hugo Veerkamp
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