Mead Lovers Digest #0385

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Subject: Mead Lover's Digest #385, 14 February 1995 
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Mead Lover's Digest #385                                  14 February 1995 

            Forum for Discussion of Mead Making and Consuming 
                      Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor 

Contents: 
  More Bee Trivia (CLAY@prism.clemson.edu) 
  catching up with FAQs (Dick Dunn) 

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Subject: More Bee Trivia 
From: CLAY@prism.clemson.edu 
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 09:10:31 -0500 (EST) 

The 100-200 pounds a year figure is derived from colonies kept in cold climates 
where the hive's demand for honey to survive the winter would consume most 
of the year's production.  Those hives, therefore, are completely cleaned out 
and new hives, started with packages of bees shipped from suppliers, are  
started the next spring.  For hives which are managed to survive from year 
to year 55 pounds is the average U.S. production.  I've gotten 80+ from  
backyard hives in northwestern SC.  So, if you're not getting 200 pounds 
of honey from your flying furry friends, don't worry. 

One-twelfth of a teaspoon is not bad when you consider that the average forager 
lives 4 or 5 days and has a total flight-distance capacity of about 800km (480 
miles). 
entomologists are like everybody else - we can't resist the chance to talk  
about our specialty. 
regards, 
Cam Lay 

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Subject: catching up with FAQs 
From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) 
Date: 7 Feb 95 23:27:24 MST (Tue) 

I've just sent off notes to get the listings for the mead and cider digests 
corrected in the rec.crafts.brewing FAQ.  If any of you are aware of other 
FAQs that list addresses for mead or cider, would you please either notify 
the keeper of the FAQ or let me know so I can do so?  I'd like to clean up 
the old references to x.org and eklektix.com within the next month or so, 
and get everything pointed at talisman.com. 
 --- 
Dick Dunn    rcd@talisman.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado USA 
   ...When did "ergonomic" become a synonym for "right-handed"? 

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