At 03:12 PM 7/8/1998 -0500, you wrote:
 
>Do you really put the queen excluder between the brood boxes.       This
>doesnt seem to make sense to me   as it would prevent the queen from laying
>in the second box.
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>Could you please explain further.
 
Some drop it on top of the second box.   But here, our commercial folks
will either over-winter the bees in Montana or truck them to California.
If going to CA, they want to knock the hives down to 1 or 2 boxes because
of the logistics of moving thousands of hives (you can get more on the
truck).  If staying over the winter, they want to be sure that they leave a
full super of honey on the hive (which again will be no more than 2 boxes).
 
In either case, the bare essentials are a brood box and a feeder box.  So,
when they pull the honey supers, they want to know that a full box of honey
is left on the hive.  But, they don't want to stop and look.
 
Jerry
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>Michael Oberle
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