On 4-Aug-17, at 10:29 AM, randy oliver wrote:

>>
>>> I cannot understand why anyone would need twelve 11 7/8" frames...
>
>
> The trick seems to be to keep a box of "stickies"
> (recently-extracted drawn combs) directly above the excluder, so  
> that the
> bees don't plug out the brood chamber with honey or pollen.
>
Hi Randy & All

The statement above concerning stickies is certainly not true here in  
Ontario.  The bees store brood food (honey & pollen) in the first  
super above the queen excluder.  That super does get travel stained  
with all the up & down traffic.  The brood chamber is wall to wall to  
wall brood(I run 9 frames per box) except a very small band  of honey  
at the top of most frames.  I have one  hive permanently installed on  
a platform scale which I check each evening and it often gains 10-20+  
pounds per day.  Last year was my best ever with 8 singles and  6 June  
nucs(queen cells used) producing over 3000 pounds of packed honey.   
Most years we have great July & September flows but this year it has  
rained almost daily with severe thunderstorms and heavy downpours often.
Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W   ( once again at 5PM today, as I am writing this, Environment  
Canada issued a severe thunderstorm warning for much of southern  
Ontario including here )


  

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