Hi,
Just my 2 cents here, last year we made 60 splits of 2 frames of brood and
bees and a frame of honey configured in  3 sections in a deep.  I orderd queen
cells to arrive on June 3, from Miksa's.  Picked them up on a cold rainy day at
the UPS center, and placed them in each.
We got 47 to take of the 60.    We had to feed for a while, but did manage to
average 40 pounds surplus on them none the less.  ( We ran these as singles
and then placed over double deep colonies to see how they would do this winter,
of the 47 singles we still have 43 alive, and we have had some brutal cold
here in Michigan).  This was our first year of experimenting with queen cells
and overwintering singles  and we'll do it again this year. I was very pleased
with the outcome and the assistance and patience of Dave Miksa.

Bill Skriba

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