Hello R and All,

I do not believe Einstein would have made the statement  and have never read
he did but stand to be corrected.
.

I thought the  article  brought out the needed  points by Pat and plan to
quote from the article next week at a program I am giving at a bee meeting.

One part of the article I did not understand.

"while a federal program  has helped  restock the hives".

 I am sure this is a missunderstanding  between the   writer  and  Pat.  I
had a non beekeeper friend  read the article to see the impression he got.
He said the  article implies we were  reimbursed for dead hives by a federal
program  which  is not true.

 Maybe  the article is talking about the honey loan program?  SMR or Russian
queens?  Any ideas?
Sincerely,
Bob Harrison

Ps   I had two newspaper articles published about  me last year and both had
misquotes in them. Both agreed before hand I was to read the finished
article before publication. Did not happen. O well
"Today's newspaper is tomorrows  smoker starter"  Bob Harrison 2002