Hi, Most of you already know that I'm going to start keeping hives next summer, I think I'm going with two (as was suggested by a number of people). I was looking at the starters kit in the Dadant catalogue and was wondering if it was better to go that route or to go to a dealer (there's one about 1.5 hours away. Or is there a better starter kit from other companies? How about anybody out there, have anything to sell to a newbie? And in the opinion section is it better for a newbie to start out with the plastic combs with wax sprayed on them or the regular all wax kind? Thanks! ******************************************************************************** Dave D. Cawley | University of Scranton | SAVE THE SMALL POX VIRUS!!! [log in to unmask] | ddc1@SCRANTON | ********************************************************************************