Ted, I have my best results by feeding sugar syrup to the hives that I want to pull comb. I usually do this in July when the flow is really low. By feeding syrup, I get drawn comb and keep the bee count up in the hives. I want to keep the bee count up for the cotton and alfalfa in august/ september/october. I remove all supers from the colonies and just place one super of undrawn comb. Each hive will pull most of a super in a month on sugar syrup. If I get sugar-honey in the super, I can either extract for feeding in late winter or keep the comb in the super and place the super on in late fall for winter food. If I use the sugar-honey for winter feed, I have to be careful that the queen doesn't lay eggs in the super in the early spring before I can work the hives. Any other comments from the list? Richard Barnes SW Oklahoma, USA [log in to unmask] At 12:13 PM 6/12/97 -0400, you wrote: >This year I bought the makings for several new supers, built them over the >winter and had them ready for the flow. I first used all of my fully drawn >supers on my hives to get as much honey as possible. Since they are now >fully capped now I am putting on my new supers. I'm a little disappointed >because my bees aren't taking to them with reckless abandon. They really >aren't doing much to draw them out at all. >It's turning out to be a good year for honey here. I hope everyone else is >seeing a good flow. > >Ted Wout >Red Oak, TX (just south of Dallas) > >