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one pound frames instead of two pounds. The two-pound frames are, as a 

 rule, too large for the average consumer. In the eastern markets comb 

 honey is always packed in one-pound frames, and we think it should be 

 done in California. The adoption of this style, in our opinion would 

 largely increase the already growing demand for the comb honey of this 



State. 



At the present writing, we may safely state that the hulk of the crop this 

 year has all been marketed, so the future comb honey business of Califor- 

 nia is a brighl one. as it is yearly entering new markets East, and there is 

 no possible limit to the demand, as it becomes better known. 



Beeswax. — There has been about the average output of this article for 

 1886, and tlic demand for our California beeswax comes largely from 

 China, although some of it goes to the eastern markets. 



It is undoubtedly the finest wax produced in the United States, and 

 there is no trouble whatever in promptly placing it for cash a1 good figures. 

 The markets of China alone will take all of the California wax that we can 

 possihly turn out for the next decade. 



CONCLUSION. 



In thus closing our twelfth annual review, we desire, as usual, to return 

 our sincere thanks to the many friends in all portions of California who 

 have so kindly and promptly aided us with their information in the prep- 

 aration of these statistics. 



Many producers, however, we are loath to say. who are in a position to 

 aid in a matter of this kind, and who should deem it not only a pleasure 

 but a duty incumbent upon them to furnish assistance in a work of this 

 character, from feelings of jealousy or from a lack of proper appreciation 

 of the great good that is being done to our State by the publication of 

 these figures, do not seem to consider it necessary to take the little time 

 and trouble which it would involve to furnish us certain information which 

 the} 7 are in a position to do. 



This annual review is published, we desire to say, for the benefit of Cal- 

 ifornia, and for the benefit of every fruit producer that lives within the 

 borders of this great State. It is also published entirely at our own ex- 

 pense, and is copied, we are pleased to note, in all of the great foreign and 

 home papers everywhere. " 



If it results in good, as we know it does, to our well-beloved State of Cal- 

 ifornia, or to the direct or indirect profit of any producer therein, there will 

 be no one more pleased than the compilers. 



