>Very interesting, Juanse!  I did a little searching on the effects of
cobalt
deficiencies, and cobalt levels in soils in various areas.  Cobalt
deficiency is common in livestock.  There could be something to this!


Love google! . Searching in bulgarian for the formulation of this Startovit
I found the following (Sorry translation by google):

http://pchelite.free.bg/lekarstva.html
Ingredients: Natrii chloridum 0,450 g, cobalti chloridum 0.0366 g. dinatrii
phosphas 0.010 g and excipiens ad 5 0 g.

Action: Startovit through it contains sodium and chloride ion, cobalt and
phosphorus stimulate yaytsesnasyaneto of queen bees and efficiency of the
bees. This accelerates the optimal development of swarms during spring, and
yields rose bee products. Applying his highly developed colonies in the
spring could lead some of them to becoming "roevo" condition.

cobalti chloridum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt%28II%29_chloride

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