On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:37:50PM -0400, Jim Stein wrote:
> In <[log in to unmask]>, on 06/04/01
>    at 10:37 PM, [log in to unmask] said:
>
> >Rod,
> >You don't super bees by a calendar.  You put a super in place just before
> >the start of a nectar flow your locale, and you add another when the
> >first is more than half full.
>
> George, in your "Pink Pages" you suggest putting more than one super on at
> the beginning of the Spring nectar flow. Why do you suggest as above to
> add supers one at a time?
>

Not wanting to speak for George, but I would think that since this is a new
beekeeper we would be suggesting putting on supers containing foundation,
not drawn comb.

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