Hi all The following was written in 1950, when I was 10 months old ... ... Within a radius of 10 km. (6 miles) there are no colonies of bees from which drones could fly out over the open, wind-swept moors to our mating apiary. Also, Dartmoor offers the striking advantages of being almost uninhabited and of having no trees whatsoever, and the climate on the moors is so rough that no swarm can survive. It is there that we set up our mating apiary twenty-six years ago -- then the only one in England. Adam, Brother. "Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey." Bee World 31.12 (1950): 89-91. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html