Hello busy Knight,
 
do you accept answers from NON-BRITISH types too? :-)
 
Once more, Br. Adam himself gives the answer in one of his books:
Already in the year 1969 he wrote, that they never put a queen into
a colony without clipping the half of one wing and that they never noticed
any disadvantage all over the last 50 years! Beside the clipping they
used no other marking of their queens.
 
This means, that right from the beginning, since he has been responsible for
the apiary in Buckfast Abbey in 1919, they must have cut wings.
 
Regards,
R.E.Bahr
 
NISI APES FINIS
 
On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, BusyKnight wrote:
 
> etc....
>
> Also, from you BRITISH types out there:  Can you tell
> me what the 'normal procedure' of Buckfast Abbey is?
> Do they normally clip wings or not?  Does Brother Adam
> have an opinion on rather one should or should not clip
> wings?
>
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