Grant Gillard wrote:
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>   The beauty of keeping bees is that whatever method you choose to raise your bees, it is the condition of your bees that will be the true indicator of your success.  Is it possible there is more than one way to raise bees, even as we try to define it as "natural" or "chemical?"
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>   Just my 2 cents.  I'm going back under the radar now.
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A nice reasoned post and a philosophy I ascribe to. I appreciate people 
like Dennis Murrel (you may want to look in the archives) who do their 
homework and provide good research. In essence he has found the same 
thing that you have which is more in line with top bar hives than the 
way most of us keep bees, including the small cell adherents. He found 
cell size varies as does the size of bees.

Don't stay under the radar. You learn more as a target.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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