From: Barry Birkey <barry@birkey.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 11:13:43 -0600
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Food chambers

From: "Allen Dick"

>> There are MANY more hobby, small scale beekeepers around this country than
>> there are commercial, and concerns you may have in your beekeeping operation
>> may not be the least bit of concern for a small scale beekeeper.
>
> Losing bees in winter may not matter to you or small beekeepers? Okay. My
> mistake. Sorry.

No, losing bees to fall honey seems to be a problem that you have to deal
with, I'd venture to say that a majority of beekeepers do not have this
problem. I don't anyway. I know the Lusby's don't feed sugar. Plenty of
others also. Speaking for myself, I have never fed in the fall, strictly
what the bees bring in themselves is what they have, and they winter just
fine. Just two different locals, two different sources for nectar, probably
two different races of bees, and two different results. We can agree that
sugar feeding is anything but the norm. The point I'm trying to make.

Regards,
Barry