--- John & Julie Mayer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
If the Landstroh hive design was so near perfection
with its space for ten frames, why then are we so
often taught to space only nine frames in it?
The pros will probably answer this but we use nine
frames in the supers, not the brood chambers, to raise
the surface of the caps. This makes it easier to cut
the caps off and then extract. Start with ten then
reduce to nine after the combs have been drawn out.
>
> Is there any easily available and safe solvent for
> propolis? Or wax for that matter?
Denatured alcohol will disolve most of the propolis.
Wax? Don't know.
Mike
Located 1/2 way between Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama
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