At 10:15  4/17/96 +1200, you wrote:
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>Sender:       Discussion of Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
>Poster:       Robert Rice <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      bee treatments -Reply
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>Walter,
>
>I quote from you >
>>Anyone wanting  U S produced honey without the possibility of DRUG
>>contamination should contact a Hawaiian bee keeper. We don't use
>>anything more then some terrimycin and that is very infrequently.
>>Hoping it works out in a safe and best way.
>
>For one who is so scathing about New Zealand's disease status,  I
>thought it interesting that you don't consider terrimycin a drug; is that the
>correct implication of your statement.  From the Collins English Dictionary I
>quote " Drug - any synthetic or natural chemical substance used in the
>treatment, prevention, or diagnosis of a disease."
>
>Exactly for which disease do you use terrimycin in Hawaii ?
>
>In New Zealand it is illegal to even use terrimycin, and has we are mite
>free there is no use of apistan or other such chemicals; the use of which
>in beehives would be illegal anyway unless the laws were changed.
>
>So if you want really pure DRUG FREE HONEY you had better buy it from
>New Zealand.
>
>Regards,
>
>Robert Rice
>Apiculture Service Manager (South Island)
>Ministry of Agriculture
>NEW ZEALAND
>
 
Really, folks,
 
This arguement between New Zealand and Hawaii is getting old.  IMHO, you
guys are taking up too much bandwidth, that people have to pay for, with
meaningless "punch trading".  Can we please put a lid on it?
 
Does anyone else feel this way, or am I the only one?
 
 
Mike Wallace
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Don't cuss!  Call Gus.  He'll cuss for both of us.