Hello Lloyd and All,
Lloyd wrote:
> The guy who has run his bees with screens for bottoms for 40-odd years has
his on pallets
Did the beekeeper ever say why he ran his hives with a screen bottom?  John
Milam of Moore, Texas used to run around 3,500 hives with  screened holes
(four small in back)) in his *pallet bottom board* pallets to let water out
he said. Charles Robson of Phoenix used a approx. 6 x 6 screened hole in the
center of each (four)  *pallet bottom board* to help with ventilation in the
Arizona summer heat while moving.
Does the beekeeper you refer to use a full screen or only a small less than
6 inch hole. Is the screen 8 mesh or window screen?
Sincerely,
Bob Harrison
Odessa, Missouri