Subject: Switch Board

From: [email-masked] (-verville d.f.)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 16:40:29 GMT

Recently I was told about a way to produce comb honey.
Mr. X  mentioned a "switch" board.  The board looks like a swarm board.
It has a large area cut out of the middle which is screened.
The board has exit ports (from the top and the bottom) on all 4 sides.
He say he puts a laying queen in a deep box, the switch board, another
deep box with laying queen, an excluder and then several honey supers.
The ports are opened and closed on a rotating weekly basis, so that the upper
unit absorbs returning field bees.
The bottom unit can only exit through the switch board.

Is this right?

ventilation?
upper box congestion?
swarm control?
dead bees and other waste?
uniting?