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Bob Harrison <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:48:02 -0600
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Dave said:
Big colonies are essential for collecting the largest crops, but there has
to be a crop to be gathered... Murray puts in a great deal of his management
effort into getting his colonies 'right' for one particular crop, if that
crop failed then no matter how many bees he has on the moors, he would get
no honey.

Excellent point Dave! "You can never count your chickens before they are
hatched" but each year the larger operator has to decide the number of hives
to use, pre flow build up  and placement of those hives.

In 1998 I had the best looking hives I had in years and had a very poor
honey crop as did all of our area. For an unknown reason the bees did not
work the Clover. Fields of Clover without a visit from the bees. Many
reasons abound such as humidity, rain washing nectar from blossoms etc.

I have seen 200 hundred hives moved in on "Blue Vine'" and the beekeeper
find 6 weeks later his bees starving instead of full supers.

In the above aspect of beekeeping the commercial fisherman and the
commercial beekeeper are the same. With the commercial fisherman you know
the fish are in the area but closed mouth. Bob comes from a family of
commercial fisherman on his fathers side.

Bob

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