I think the info on oils is too new yet to be widely used and accepted.
I just tried it for the first time.  I think most people are in the same
boat...
 
Gerry Visel
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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996 16:41:30 -0400 David Eyre <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>>Phil Wood wrote on Essential Oils.
>
>>Curiously, I didn't hear much from folks since the original posting
>>here. Does this mean that everyone is quietly going out and buying
>the
>>oils and seeing what will happen?
>>Or is this a new idea with promising preliminary results?
>
>I don't think anything is amiss. The list seems to be very 'Ho Hmm'
>regarding new innovations I said at the time things seem to go down
>like
>lead balloons. It will only be when their favourite academic or
>extension
>officer has done all the testings allover again that they might
>condiscend
>to try it out. It would appear that most bee keepers  do not like
>change.
>One even told me my ideas couldn't be any good, because no body had
>thought
>of it before me!!!!
>        Wait and see, the cry will go up 'it doesn't work' only
>because some
>one isn't using it properly!! But thats another post!!
>
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