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To: wideawake
If you want to make absolutely, positively sure that a wound will be infected - put some honey on it.

Ooh Ooh! I disagree! Do you have some backup? Here's why I disagree, and I odn't mean this to be conlcu=lusive or anything, I'm just lobbing something to you for you to hit it out of the park:

Honey is so supersaturted that as long as it is not diluted nothing can grow in it and somethings will have the H20 osmozed right the heck out of 'em.

The reason honey is not good for small human type personell is that it gets diluted in their tummies which are not sufficiently acidic to whomp the cooties, and then botulinus and other neat stuff which was just being dormant there can take off.

So they told me in the days when I had 18 hives.

14 posted on 05/11/2007 7:35:45 AM PDT by Mad Dawg ( St. Michael: By the power of God, fight with us!)
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To: Mad Dawg
as long as it is not diluted nothing can grow in it

It attracts insects who want to eat it.

17 posted on 05/11/2007 7:44:45 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Mad Dawg
Wow . . . we used to have five.

Now we live in a very shady hole by a creek, and the bees don't like it here.

So we set up a hobby hive for a friend who has a beautiful situation on a nice sunny hill. The hive is on a stand at the edge of a woodline right beside a beautiful open pasture. Tons of tulip poplar trees in the woods. The bees are happy little productive rascals. We got 18 full frames of honey off the hive last year . . .

18 posted on 05/11/2007 7:53:45 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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