MARCH 15, 1919 



pounds, and the iiuii-coutig'uous territories 

 of Hawaii, Philippines, and Porto Rico haVe 

 iiu-reascd tht'ir shii)nienls of sugar into 

 continental United States from 511,000,000 

 to 1,873,000,000 pounds. Europe, the Dutch 

 East Indies, and other foreign countries, on 

 the other hand, have decreased their sales to 

 •this country during that same ])eriod from 

 1 ,219.000,000 pounds to 2;i4 million pounds 

 in ]!)14. The domestic product has grown 

 from 349,000,000 to 1,841,000,000 pounds. 

 Our exports of sugar have increased from 

 20,000,000 in 1889^to 97,000,000 pounds in 

 the year ended June 30, 1914, and in the 

 three montlis ended with Oct. 31 there was 

 the enormous export of 230,000,000 pounds; 

 in round numbers, more exactly as follows: 

 Augnist, 38.956,305 ; September, 52,290,773 ; 

 October, 138,372,686, or a total of 229,619,- 

 764 pounds. 



In the fiscal year of 1913 only 44,000,000 

 pounds was exported. In 1910," 125,000,000 

 pounds. 



The following table shows the leading 

 factors in the sugar consumption of the 

 United States and its relation to the world 

 product in 1894 and 1914. 



FACTORS I.V SUGAR SUPPLY'AXD CONSUMPTION. 



Millions of Pounds 



Domestic product 1894 1914 



Cane sugar 610.8 601.1 



Beet sugar 44 . 7 1,240 . 



Total 655.5 1,841.1 



Cane sugar from : 



Porto Rico 75 . 5 641 . 3 



Hawaii 326.6 1,114.7 



Philippines 124.1 116.7 



Total U. S. islands 526.2 1,872.7 



Culja . . .■ 2,127.5 4,926.6 



Other foreign countries .... 1,181.2 21.0 



Beet sugar from foreign countries : 



510.4 2.4 



Total from foreign countries 3,819.1 4,950.0 



Sugar exports (including ship- 

 ments to U. S. islands) 64.3 96.8 



Domestic .sugar consumption... 4,936.5 8,567.0 



World's sugar product 16,532.3 35,860.0 



Percentage of domestic-sugar con- 

 .sumption supplied by: 



Continental United States... 13.3 20.6 



U. S. islands 10.7 21.9 



Cuba 43.1 57.5 



Other foreign countries .... 32.9 0.2 



Another Admonition against Arsen° 

 ate 



Is it too soon to begin this j-ear's series 

 of warnings to ignorant and thoughtless 

 fruitgrowers against spraying dui'ing 

 bloom? Doubtless in 1915, just as in every 

 other year, the reckless will add to the 

 untold damage which has been caused by 

 spraying with lead arsenate while the blos- 

 soms are yet on the trees, although it is to 

 be hoped that, with all which has been said 

 and written on this subject, some diminu- 

 tion in tills inconsiderate carelessness will 

 be noticed. 



"Never spray any fruit-tree wliile in steps 



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bloom " is the caution of the Connecticut 

 Experimental Station Bulletin No. 184. "It 

 kills your best friends, tlie honeybees, which 

 pollinate the flowers and help to increase 

 the yield of fruit. The spray will also in- 

 jure the delicate floral organs, so that fruit 

 will not set." In giving directions for the 

 control of the canker worms, bud-moths, 

 tent-caterpillars, and brown-tail moths, 

 which feed upon the unfolding leaves, the 

 bulletin says to spray before the blossom- 

 cup opens, though not until the surface of 

 the leaves has expanded sufficiently to hold 

 the poison. 



Fruitgrowers who do not understand the 

 relation between bees and fruitgrowing 

 (and, unfortunately, there are still such 

 men) will be persuaded to stop this prac- 

 tice probably only when they realize that 

 filling the blossom-cup with poison is not 

 only not necessary but positively an injui-y 

 to the delicate organs of the flower, and a 

 handicap to the future growth of the fruit 

 if it manages to survive. Best results will be 

 secured by pounding this truth home quite 

 as forcibly as the fact that bees are neces- 

 sary for perfect pollination. 



Tlie PeiMisylvaiiia Meeting 



The Pennsylvania beekeepers met in 

 their eleventh annual convention in the 

 Senate Caucus Room of the State Capitol 

 at Harrisburg, on Tuesday evening, Febru- 

 ary 23, holding also two sessions on Wed- 

 nesday, the 24th. This proved one of the 

 most enthusiastic and probably most im- 

 portant meeting of the association. While 

 the attendance Avas not as large as at some 

 former meetings, yet the keen interest shown 

 in bringing Pennsylvania to the front was 

 remarkable. 



Reports by members and inspectors 

 showed that last season was not up to the 

 average, and that foul brood was extremely 

 bad. 



It was brought out that the Pennsylvania 

 association has the second largest member- 

 ship in the United States, and is second 

 only to New York in honey production. It 

 is also the second largest api^le-produeing 

 state in the Union. The crop for 1914 was 

 23,100,000 bushels. Because of their im- 

 portance to the fruitgrower in the i^ollina- 

 tion of fruit bloom it is of prime impor- 

 tance to save the bees from the ravages of 

 foul brood. 



With two or three exceptions the pro- 

 gram was carried out as advertised. The 

 various papers and' talks ai-oused lively 

 discussion and develojjed some inijiortanf 



