26 Farmers’ Bulletin 1215, 
When permanent increase in the number of colonies is desired, the 
large colonies may be divided at the time of requeening, thus utiliz- 
ing the workers that would not live through winter and that will 
not be serviceable in gathering a honey-crop. No new colony should 
be started with less than enough bees to care for four or five frames 
of emerging brood. The brood should be placed chiefly in those 
colonies which are moved away from the old stand. Queencells 
should be furnished within two days to all queenless colonies and 
under no circumstances should the beekeeper allow these small 
colonies to rear their own queens, as such queens are almost always 
inferior. 
A simple way to make increase at this time, when each colony is 
to be divided into two, and when the beekeeper has but one apiary, 
is to remove the lower hive-body containing the queen and brood to 
a new location. On the old stand is placed a hive containing empty 
combs, and a queencell is placed between the combs in a cell- 
protector, the second story being put in place. A hive-body contain- 
ing full combs of honey is placed on the removed hive containing 
the queen, for their winter food supply. To prevent the return of 
too many of the bees of the new colony to their old location, the 
entrance of the new hive should be closed with green grass. As this 
dries the bees are released. When out-apiaries are maintained the 
original hive can be divided into two equal parts, the queenless por- 
tion given a queencell, and one part moved to another apiary to 
prevent its return to the old stand. 
MARKET FACILITIES AND METHODS OF MARKETING. 
Most of the clover region lies in the part of the United States 
having the most dense population, and this makes it possible for the 
beekeeper to sell his honey near the point of production, a thing 
impossible for beekeepers of many other regions. This at once sug- 
gests the desirability of developing either a local market or one not 
far away, especially for comb-honey. Beekeepers of this region do 
this by means of selling from the home to those who call for the 
honey, by sales to local grocers, or by conducting a mail-order busi- 
ness. Where these plans are not practical, the honey should be so 
prepared as to enter the general honey markets of the country, in 
which clover honey brings the highest price. 
Because of the possibility of local marketing in the clover region 
few carlots of this honey reach the general honey markets of the 
country, but this fact should not be interpreted as indicating a small 
production in this region, which in reality produces nearly half of 
the Nation’s honey supply. 
