> However one can be a beekeeper with nothing later than Langstroth's book in your hand. 
> One can be a beekeeper with no book in your hand.

Hi All
Here in the cold country where we don't usually open hives from Thanksgiving to Easter, reading is a traditional pastime. Fact is, Langstroth read everything he could get his hands on. So did CC Miller, and all the rest. 

Tammy Horn's books take us all the way from then to now. To say the recent stuff is more important than the old is like saying children are more important than parents. Why pointlessly compare and discriminate? 

My main directive is: does it interest me? -- not, is it new? A lot of new stuff is plenty interesting. Finally, I would feel pretty dumb if I "discovered" something at great expense, which was already widely known.

PLB

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