> it wasn't clear in your original message whether you were being
> critical of prescriptions in general, or walt's in particular.

Both.

> the 60 page manuscript (not published, but available directly from
> walt) is mostly about understanding and timing,

60 pages?  60 pages?  Any professional beekeeper could tell you all you
need to know in one page or less.

> and has absolutely nothing to do with spreading brood around.

So I'm being told.  That is not what I recall from the original article, 
but I've been wrong before.

> checkerboarding is simply using empty comb to break up the solid
> honey dome above the brood nest.

Sorry There should be no solid dome of honey above the brood nest in
spring unless it is in frames with brood.  Maybe that is the source of 
the confusion (in my mind).

Anyhow, I appreciate the discussion.

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