> I read the figure in a bulletin explaining the program (Nape- spelling?)


Oh, you mean ELAP. Well, I wonder how they cooked up that figure. I was never in favor of issuing payments for dead hives, in any case. Funny how a barrel pork so quickly becomes a sacred cow...

PLB

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