Hi, Peter --

I've never been a cotton farmer.  I have trouble understanding how nectar 
(in the blossoms?) could interfere with picking cotton.  Please explain, if 
you would.

Walter Weller



>The growers preferred the honey free types because the nectar tending to 
>interfere with cotton harvesting. They kept quiet about the switch because 
>they didn't want >the beekeepers to make a big stink about the loss of the 
>honey production. By the time the beekeepers realized what had happened, it 
>was too late to do anything about >it.

>PLB

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