Beekeeping in the Tulip-Tree Region. 23 
who leave the matter of rearing queens entirely to the bees must 
expect in the tulip-tree region to suffer a loss of at least half the 
honey-crop. 
INCREASE. 
Tt will be evident from what has been said that any increase in the 
number of colonies by division before or during the honey-flow from 
tulip-tree will result in a decrease in the honey-crop, except when 
such increase is made from brood which will emerge too late to take 
part in gathering the crop (p. 18). It is also detrimental to make 
increase after August 15, when bees for winter are being reared. 
Increase is therefore limited in time, just as is requeening. 
When a permanent increase in the number of colonies is desired, 
the large colonies may be divided at the time of requeening, thus 
utilizing 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 chiefly be placed in 
those colonies which are moved away from the old stand. Queen- 
cells 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 only 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 containing 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 outapiaries are maintained the original hive 
can be divided into two equal parts, the queenless portion given a 
queencell, and one part moved to another apiary to prevent return 
to the old stand. 
MARKET FACILITIES AND METHODS OF 
MARKETING. 
The tulip-tree grows in a part of the country where the people are 
accustomed to eat considerable honey, and there is rarely any dif- 
ficulty in selling the crop near the point of production. Because 
tulip-tree honey is dark and rather strong in flavor, there is little 
present demand for it on the larger honey markets of the country, 
