From: Peter Loring Borst: "This study, ........ Survival was significantly higher on the pure sucrose diet ..... and they performed significantly better on pure casein ......... Peter, Admitted the above are snippets of what you posted, but I think contains the essence of what you were trying to say. From these comments, would you advocate then utilizing pure sucrose syrup and pure casein in your winter preparation feeds? If so, how would you propose administering the food additives? Mike in LA *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm