I was told long ago by a second generation beekeeper that back when they set up bees as singles in long lines (his dad would actually establish a string line to keep all hive perfectly straight) that in a honey flow the hives the furtherest down wind would invariable capture the largest quantity of surplus honey 



Last spring in OK I had a yard set like this in the road ditch.   The 3-4 hives on the downwind  end would be absolulty mugged with bees.  The winds were always strong -15mph low side during the day.   We solved the issue by making the  end hives 4 deep hive bodies and 2 supers.

This was a row with 20 pallets in.

When the wind shifted  so would the drift.

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