26 Farmers’ Bulletin 1216. 
OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THIS REGION, 
There are vast areas of the buckwheat region of the United States 
that are undeveloped or only partially developed in their honey 
resources. This is largely due to the widespread distribution of 
European foulbrood, but it is also doubtless due in part to a lack of 
information as to the right methods to be used in obtaining the crop. 
Although the honey from buckwheat is inferior to that from many 
other honey sources, there is a real need for all of it that can be pro- 
duced, and there is especially an opportunity for the development of 
commercial beekeeping in this region. Al] the factors mentioned con- 
cerning this region point to the fact that this is not one in which 
it is desirable that bees be kept in small apiaries, for it requires great 
skill on the part of the beekeeper to make the most of the resources 
of this area. 
Only by.the education of the commercial beekeepers of the region 
in the best methods of beekeeping practices or by the taking up of the 
territory by thoroughly trained beekeepers from other sections will it 
be possible to develop this region completely. In order that the vast 
areas of buckwheat may be more thoroughly occupied, it is desirable 
that the commercial beekeepers of the region expand their businesses 
by the establishment of more outapiaries. This, together with a more 
thorough study of the special practices necessary for the region, will 
result in a great impetus to beekeeping and thus serve to save for 
human use the great stores of nectar now so largely wasted. 
Since it is impossible in the scope of one bulletin to give all the 
details of beekeeping practice which will be needed by the commer- 
cial. beekeepers of the buckwheat region, it is necessary to refer to 
certain other bulletins of the Department of Agriculture in which 
these practices are given in greater detail. Some of these bulletins 
have already been mentioned. Those of the greatest interest are: 
Bees. (Farmers’ Bulletin 447.) 
Honey and its Uses in the Home. (Farmers’ Bulletin 653.) 
Transferring Bees to Modern Hives. (Farmers’ Bulletin 961.) 
Control of European Foulbrood. (Farmers’ Bulletin 975.) 
Preparation of Bees for Outdoor Wintering. (KFarmers’ Bulletin 1012.) 
Wintering Bees in Cellars. (Farmers’ Bulletin 1014.) 
Control of American Foulbrood. (Farmers’ Bulletin 1084.) 
Swarm Control. (Farmers’ Bulletin 1198.) 
Semimonthly market news reports of commercial honey trans- 
actions may be had free on request to the Chief, Bureau of Markets 
and Crop Estimates, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
