Hello all , When extracting 2 weeks ago I had a colony that stored pollen in the bottom super about 2/3 of the way up the frames. After checking that the bees did in fact have plenty of pollen in the brood chamber I scraped the pollen filled comb into some jars and froze it. Well it tastes delicious in a very small amount. Question, is this pollen just as good as what is collected at the hive entrance. Should I not be eating this in small amounts just as I would collected pollen? I dislike the thought of wasting this good prouduct but have found no references to it in any of my books, or in the archives. On another subject, cleaning smokers, in the fall I take the bellows off my smoker and set the smoker in a coffee can of kerosene for a day. The creasote inside ( i burn pine needles) soakes up some of the kerosene. Then pull it out and set it on my barbeque and light it, when it is done burning in about an hour there is a loose crust inside that falls out when turned over leaving a like new smoker. I oil the leather (neetsfeet oil) and put it back togeather for another year. Good talking to youall, Al Boehm Columbus N C