On 4-Aug-17, at 10:29 AM, randy oliver wrote: >> >>> I cannot understand why anyone would need twelve 11 7/8" frames... > > > The trick seems to be to keep a box of "stickies" > (recently-extracted drawn combs) directly above the excluder, so > that the > bees don't plug out the brood chamber with honey or pollen. > Hi Randy & All The statement above concerning stickies is certainly not true here in Ontario. The bees store brood food (honey & pollen) in the first super above the queen excluder. That super does get travel stained with all the up & down traffic. The brood chamber is wall to wall to wall brood(I run 9 frames per box) except a very small band of honey at the top of most frames. I have one hive permanently installed on a platform scale which I check each evening and it often gains 10-20+ pounds per day. Last year was my best ever with 8 singles and 6 June nucs(queen cells used) producing over 3000 pounds of packed honey. Most years we have great July & September flows but this year it has rained almost daily with severe thunderstorms and heavy downpours often. Bob Darrell Caledon Ontario Canada 44N80W ( once again at 5PM today, as I am writing this, Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm warning for much of southern Ontario including here ) *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html