Hi Eric & All,

> I've started a small-cell experiment, just because I
> feel like this nameless voice on the internet won't allow me any peace.
My
> hope is that this experiment will provide a defense against the bands of
> small cell marauders that attack my mental tranquility.
>  Having now revealed my bias, I hope to throw my two bits to the small
cell discussion.
>


If this is the abstract to your experiment your experiment should do quit
well to accomplish your bias.

In my opinion it is not the small cell beekeepers who are marauding any
tranquility. If you have difficulty understanding small cell or natural
beekeeping it is not the fault of others who have recently been discussing
on this pipeline about the subject. I have no agenda to persuade you or
anyone else to use small cells or any other one method of keeping bees, I
try my best to tell how & what I am doing and only give my opinion on some
aspects of keeping bees. If anyone has a problem with that I am not the one
with the problem. I am enjoying a better success with small cell bee keeping
and certain methods that I have been taught by beekeepers who do not use
added treatments to a hive. It is a long standing fact that there is a
method to the madness, some beekeepers have better methods than others do.
Even though there is a prescribed method to small cell beekeeping I know of
nobody that follows the method to the letter but one person. Others are
succeeding regardless if they follow the letter to the method. There are two
things that rings true to all there methods is they are using smaller cells,
not necessarily one size cell and not necessarily comb drawn from
foundation, and not using any treatments. For the most successful it would
appear that truly feral bee capturing is highly beneficial. These ferals are
for the most part already regressed and genetically correct. If scientist
want something beneficial to do they might want to collect some of these
ferals themselves, let them draw their own combs, study un-bias the colony
and its structure, breed, and report, regardless of peer review. In my
opinion peer review can present bias and jealousy.

Hope I have not offended any one or stressed anyone mentally.

 . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
c(((([ , Apiarian, http://takeoff.to/alaskahoney/,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akbeekeepers/ ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Norlandbeekeepers/ ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ApiarianBreedersGuild/

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