Whoops..thought i waas replying directly to Waldemar
 Waldemar wrote:

>I have at least 100 of my hives 4 years + w/o treatment and all my hives
are doing well as a whole) is that my honey production seems to compare
well with those whose hives were treated annually.
 This is very positive.  How do you run your hives (size of broodnest, with
 or w/o excluders) and what is your honey yield per hive?

I was one of those featured in the last Bee Journal study of VSH vs Russuan 
vs Italian. Drs Danka  & Ward.... that study described bees in our area 
fairly well wrt honey productiion.......
 I dont use excluders as a rule, I run a deep + shallow overwinter. I find 
my
 crops thus far at about the average of my neighbors per year ~ 50- 80 # 
per
 hive annually. I have a total of about 300 hives.

 John Horton

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