Thank you, Joel.

>>Ormond and Harry (father and son) used single Lang brood chambers 
with q. excluders, and 6" honey supers.

I've read that the late professor Roger Morse advocated using single 
deeps with excluders, too.

>>They used a lot of honey supers, and always added the newest ones 
right above the excluder. ...they claimed this prevented swarming.

This set-up keeps the bees trying to establish a honey dome above the 
broodnest for survival.  With this number one priority not met, 
reproductive swarming (priority number two) is not initiated.

I guess I'd like to try this set-up one day for comparison although I 
agree with you that juggling those heavy medium supers is no fun.

>>Another set of experiments involved grounding the queen excluders.

What is this?

Waldemar

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