>Phil Wood wrote on Essential Oils. >Curiously, I didn't hear much from folks since the original posting >here. Does this mean that everyone is quietly going out and buying the >oils and seeing what will happen? >Or is this a new idea with promising preliminary results? I don't think anything is amiss. The list seems to be very 'Ho Hmm' regarding new innovations I said at the time things seem to go down like lead balloons. It will only be when their favourite academic or extension officer has done all the testings allover again that they might condiscend to try it out. It would appear that most bee keepers do not like change. One even told me my ideas couldn't be any good, because no body had thought of it before me!!!! Wait and see, the cry will go up 'it doesn't work' only because some one isn't using it properly!! But thats another post!! **************************************************** * David Eyre 9 Progress Drive, Unit 2, * * The Beeworks, Orillia, Ontario, L3V 6H1. * * [log in to unmask] 705-326-7171 * * http://www.muskoka.net/~beeworks * * Agents for: E H Thorne & B J Sherriff UK. * ****************************************************