> I kept bees in Southern California for many years. We had no distinctions
> such as "brood box" or "top box". We just had boxes, of one size 
> (full-sized
> deeps). The supers were frequently moved up and down the stack for a 
> variety
> of reasons.

Ahh!  Those were the good old days!

I didn't want to bring that up in this day and age, since it seems so long 
ago, now; but that was, indeed, how we did things back then, with some 
beekeepers using excluders here and there judiciously, many not. 

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