Tom Elliott wrote:
> Keith,
>> Me, I have not noticed a difference with or without excluders, if one 
>> uses drawn comb.
> Here in the Anchorage area of Alaska a single deep broodnest will 
> produce swarms reliably in a large percentage of hives.  And this is 
> with new packages, which the books tell me are not likely to swarm.

I don't doubt that at all.  Round here most folks run one deep, or a 
deep and a shallow or medium as a broodnest.  I use at least 2 deeps.

Keith

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