Regional Differences within the United States 207 
BEEKEEPING REGIONS 
It helps to an understanding of the differences in the prac¬ 
tices of beekeepers in various parts of the United States if 
we divide the country into honey regions. This, as any 
experienced beekeeper will at once recognize, is a more or 
less arbitrary division and many exceptions might be cited 
to the following classification. In the main, however, the 
nature of the honey-flows justifies such an arrangement, and 
this plan is still more permissible if we consider the systems 
of manipulation found most advantageous by beekeepers. 
These regions may first be divided into general and restricted, 
depending chiefly on their area. The general regions are 
those not only of considerable extent, but of greater influence 
on the choice of manipulations. 
General regions. 
These are five in number and the division is based on 
differences in climatic conditions found in the United States. 
The placing of the sage region in the rank of a general re¬ 
gion is justified mainly by the size of the crops obtained 
there in favorable seasons. 
(1) The white clover region includes eastern Canada, the 
New England States, except along the coast, and a belt along 
the northern United States as far west as the Dakotas. 
It is limited to the west by the arid region and again reap¬ 
pears on the Pacific coast, both in the United States and 
Canada. The southern boundary is approximately Mason 
and Dixon’s line and the Ohio River. In this region, in addi¬ 
tion to white clover, alsike clover, sweet clover, basswood, 
tulip poplar and locust contribute to the honey crops and, 
with the exception of that from tulip poplar, the honeys 
from these sources are light in color. Alsike clover is steadily 
increasing in importance with its wider planting for forage, 
while basswood is rapidly disappearing because of the exten¬ 
sive cutting of this tree for lumber. In this region the 
honey-flows are rapid and relatively short and the main 
