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I am just offering up this bit of info on horizontal hives from an expert, supposedly. 

Long experience has taught me that one should never stray from the following three principles, which constitute the bedrock of any good beekeeping:

1. Big hives.
   
2. Big frames.
   
3. Enough room in the hive to always allow the queen’s egg-laying to proceed uninterrupted.
   

In this way, you will: 1) minimize natural swarming; 2) produce as much honey as the location will allow; 3) build up a strong population by fall. All three points are very important for an apiary’s future.
My neighbor farmers have long applied this simple method to their apiaries, which consist of horizontal hives. These procedures have been used in my apiary for twenty years now, and for fifteen years in theirs, and this simple approach is becoming increasingly popular throughout France.

I can't disagree with that ... except ... if you've got anything commercial, you're probably better off going with standard size frames. I also never overstacked the supers, because I recover the hives from the fields in the fall. That's a lot of work for me.

@"TheRedneck"#115 : don't know if bees will take to wood other than pine. My contribution was all about: even a dummy can succeed at beekeeping.