Hi Yoon:

What I used for the laid down comb is a shallow super with a groove cut in
each end large enough for the frame ears to fit into. I support the frame on
a pair of bars, 8" long x 1.5" high x 1.5" wide. It is good to put a potato
sack over the top of the laid down frame to keep it warm and prevent the
bees from feeding the  larvae on the top side.

I confined the queen in a three frame compartment above an excluder and put
all the frames with brood and eggs below the excluder. I  wait a few  days
to let them hatch out and then put the frame which is to contain the queen
cells into her compartment  and let her lay in it. When the eggs begin to
hatch I remove the top box with the queen and put it on another bottom board
behind the original. I put the frame horizontally on the lower box (making
sure the queen is not on it). Since she has not laid in the bottom box for
while, there are no larvae for the bees to make queens from. They are forced
to use the frame with the newly hatched eggs.

Note: I only started doing this last year, due to my worsening eyesight
making grafting  difficult. It worked well, and I am going to try it again
this year.


                                    Best regards

                                    Donald Aitken

... Sure, Hopkins' Method works but you need to have a larger-than-standard
 super to lay down an egg-laden frame, flat horizontally, a problem
 everyone experiences yet nobody mentions...



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