From: "David Eyre" <admin@beeworks.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:40:17 -0500
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@egroups.com
Subject: Re: cell size in supers

On 10 Jan 2001, at 19:45, Lucinda Sewell wrote:

> Dee, is there any difference extracting small comb? I know you've answered
> this for me before...but good to archive/ share with others.

I'm not Dee, but can answer this one. When I was a boy we always
used a larger cell for honey supers, I assume it was drone. Now I
have recently returned to the old ways and the results are quite
remarkable.
We now use drone foundation in the shallows, it started as an
exercise to trap Varroa (which worked) but the extraction time was
'considerably' faster. I would suspect it has to do with surface area
(of the holes) and the viscosity, but the frames came out dryer as
well. The amount of post extraction drip was also noticeable.
So, in this case larger is better, if only to speed up extracting!!
Regards Dave E...