Hi Allen & all

> Therefore, some of the unfit queens would have naturally have removed
> themselves from the ranks of the older queens by the 28 days.  They don't
> mention any dead in their cages in the caged ones, either -- that I could
> notice.  I wonder how these things were accounted for.

The document is the only info available and I do not know any of the
contributing people on a personal basis, I would have expected cage deaths
to be recorded if they occurred.

> Can we also conclude that any queens that were found to have had poor
> or bad patterns, in the mating nuc, were installed into hives anyways?

From the way I read it... Yes.

But it is hard work reading it, I think I will take a hammer and chisel to
the file so I can read it comfortably. (I have been reading the later pages
more than the early ones).


Best Regards & 73s, Dave Cushman... G8MZY
Beekeeping and Bee Breeding Website
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman

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