From: "Gordon Hayes" <flashgh@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 23:17:25 -0500
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: AOS Apiculture section

>Clipping is an old practice and has been done for along time. I
>don't clip personally, but wouldn't outlaw it. The same with marking.

I do feel that clipping should be outlawed in Organic Beekeeping. The reason being that it prevents a natural progression in the life of the hive.
Honeybees tendency to swarm is God's way of creating in them a means of
propagation and survival of the species.

Gordon in

New Harmony, IN.