Hi Allen & all

> The most important thing I learned -- IMO -- is that all beekeeping is
> local.  What I hear from others -- be they 20 miles, or a continent
away --
> may not apply to my situation, or it may.  The important thing is that I
> must make careful, independent, unbiased observations on my own, and only
> then consider what others report.

These are Allen's words, but they could just as easily be mine... It is not
that some ideas a right and others are wrong (although this does occur) but
mainly if all circumstances are taken into account the different management
methods each work in the circumstances pertaining in that area.

As far as regional variations are concerned, I have had remarkable
differences in apiaries that are only a few miles apart, in a twenty five
year period I have had more than twenty different apiary sites (yards), none
of which have been more than 22 miles from my home, but the characteristics
of each site take much observing and learning to get the best from them.


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

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