John Edwards wrote:

>Oh, dear .... please don't get them all to setting up chlorine generators in
>their honey houses. We have few enough beekeepers as it is - next will be
>carbon
>monoxide, then phosgene, then  ... ??
>  - All much too simple to set up.

   Actually, my query about whether chlorine gas would kill AFB spores was
only meant to be rhetorical and not as a suggestion.  While working for a
beekeeper in the early 1950s, I almost got killed while using cyanide gas
to fumigate a warehouse (legal then) --- not getting out of the building
fast enough after gas began forming.

   John is correct; we lose too many beekeepers (and other farm workers)
that way.  Sorry for any confusion.

                                                        Adrian

Adrian M. Wenner                    (805) 963-8508 (home phone)
967 Garcia Road                     (805) 893-8062  (UCSB FAX)
Santa Barbara, CA  93106

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