Glad this came up. I'm reading the hive and the honey bee. It says:
"The first supers given above the food (sic) chambers in the start of the flow should be supers of drawn comb."
I assume they meant brood chambers.
Anyway, I'm just starting out and won't have any drawn comb. My supers are shallow and the brood deep, so I can't put the little frames in there to get drawn out, right?
It also says that if supers of drawn comb aren't around, put some drawn comb between foundation to get them started. Duh! If you don't have any put some in between. It says that this is called "baiting the super."
I plan on crush and strain, so never figued to have any drawn comb for the supers. Is this a problem?
The edition I'm reading is from 1975, so perhaps this advice has changed. Thanks.