Allen:
Small cell works for some, but hasn't caught on in a big
way with commercial operators, although many have tinkered
with it.  Lack of scientific confirmation has held this one
back, as has the religious fervour of some proponents, and
the seeming total absence -- even after many years now --
of any large commercially viable examples.

Reply:
Well, well Allen what can I say, Dr Levin used to walk up
and down the halls and mumble "Why does it have to be the
comb...." 

Isn't the the hardest thing to get commercial to change and
we are all a bunch of hard heads you know generation to
generation not wanting to give up anything. Also, there has
to be a period of doing and watching and seeing how things
go with the wind too, you could say. and that is know also
in commercial beekeeping groups with the blow and go type!
As for research, well it has been said if it works then it
will stand the test of time, so I guess we are seeing both
the return to SC and the stoppage of LC with a failed
experiment of the 1933/34 Paris convention of sorts for
getting the bigger is better movement going, for when
things then go bad, does that mean the experiment failed?

any way Allen my dear friend, you get the drift I think.

So what else you thinking?

Regards,

Dee

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