From: "joel acheson" <joeljed@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:25:41 -0000
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Dadant ready for orders

By golly, your'e right, Pav. I was sure that I'd read the 4.9 mm in their
lit when I was there to place my order, but they don't. I think that's the
first mistake I ever made.

As I mentioned in my previous posting, I have already rec'd a package of
this new foundation, but did'nt have a mm ruler to measure it with. I will
get one today, and measure it when I go home on Thurs to install a new queen
(which will hopefully be here by then). I'll report back then on what I
find.

My home where I keep my hives is in Jameson, MO, about 90 miles from Kansas
City, which is where I work. I stay in KC during the week and go home on
wkends to play with the bees. I have only one hive at present, and
apparently I had injured the queen when I took a quick look in the hive 2
wks ago, because she had quit laying, and was just dragging herself around.

I took her out to create hopelessness in the bees and ordered a new
Buckfast queen. My supplier was gracious enough to promise to get one right
out, and I will be able to save the colony, although production for this
year will obviously be compromised. I'm really upset with myself, for she
was a good queen, out of feral stock, a small black queen, like Dee talks
about, and I really wanted to preserve her genetics. Oh well.

Joel

>I found the "medium brood small-cell foundation" but couldn't find the size
>specified there. Joel, could
>you post the URL?
>
>(Got to thinking that Dadant was deliberately not specifying the size to
>stop loose dogs from ravaging
>them if the actual size varied somewhat...)
>
>-Pav