Allen is exactly right.  If one puts a comb honey super on top of two
deeps, the bees will fill the top deep with honey before even starting to
draw the comb honey foundation.  In many areas, the 60+ pounds it takes to
fill a deep with honey is all the surplus the hive can forage for the
year!  And that would fill *three* Ross Round supers!

Putting a comb honey super over a deep and a medium works reasonably well,
but NEVER over two deeps.

Another common reason for failure is to put the comb honey super under a
super with drawn comb.  Typically, the beekeeper figures he or she will
thereby collect both extracted and comb honey from the same hive.
Unfortunately, bees will happily walk over the comb honey foundation and
fill the drawn combs with nectar, leaving the comb honey foundation
untouched.

As Allen says, all this and more is in the archives.

Lloyd

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