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[paul simon <paul.simon@tcs.wap.org>]

> Paul, this also explains why feeding sugar water to bees at certain
> times causes them to store it if they have an excess.  The result is
> honey which sugars.  We still have a lot to learn in apiculture.  Lot of
> "wisdom" is written by "armchair" beekeepers and "beehavers".  Best
> advice is to learn from practical experience.  It is hard to convince a
> dude who has been a beekeeper for over 50 years that you can get much
> info from the few books on the subject.

Doc,

My explanation was to why some honey granulates and developes a sour 
character.

The text by Roy Grout was the text for a beekeeping course at either 
Michigan State Univ. or the Univ. of Maryland.

Beekeepers commonly feed sugar in solution in the fall to overwinter 
their hives.

I have some thirty years plus as a honey producer and pollination 
service until I gave it up 15 years ago because of a bad back and 
parenting requirements as a single parent. My average yield was 80 to 
100 pounds with top colonies producing yearly 160 to 180 pound each. 
I belonged to county, state, and regional asssociations. I am now 
back into bees for pollination needs. ( P.S. My daughter finishes her 
MS in mechanical engineering this coming January.)

Paul S. twix Balto. and DC,  zone 6.