> Bob, and others, I am keeping Italians but I am anxious to try
> Caucasians next year.  I understand that they are naturally inclined
> to spread the brood laterally.
<etc.>
 
Something I read somewhere, long long ago:
 
Bees tend to build their hive to correspond to the angle of
inclination of the lines of magnetic force -- more vertical nearer
the poles, and horizontal at the equator.  Hence the Kenyan hive is
an equatorial hive design and may not be suited to the extremes of
north or south.
 
True?  Not true, Who knows?  Discuss?
 
Regards
 
Allen
 
W. Allen Dick, Beekeeper                                         VE6CFK
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