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Hi Andy;
 
        Regarding your comments that the calif, bees are the best, as an
Australian and international trained bee scientist, ( Grad, of Calif, Univ,
Davis) spending much time in your country and state, I would like to point
out that every bee has it own special environmental understanding of the
local environmental influences.
 
        This is why in the late 1960'/70' queen breeders all over the world
spent many hours testing their own bees characteristics and then evaluating
them against the particular intersts of many other places.
 
        California for far to long was only interested in queen in packages
for their fruit trees and plant pollination, and by this concentration lost
the ability to work their bees in the local natural bush honey production.
 
        As you should be aware these areas of orchards where developed into
massive housing developments because the beekeepers failed to meet there
morgage commitments and the housing developemnts also failed.
 
        This is the free enterprise system we all hear so much about from
USA, but this demonstrates that only the STRONG, gain profit.
 
 
                                        Dr Brian. E. Goble PhD. OV. RAS.
                                              Principal Scientist
 
                SEE URL: http://www.eastend.com.au/~goble
Thanks from :
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            [log in to unmask] ( David Goble )
           American Beach Kangaroo Island South Australia