.Iir.v, liiJl. 



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Hiiu- floes llip lioiu'v fliMv ill >(Hir locality cdni- 

 jiMie with iioniial Mt lliis time.' Ciive answer in 

 per cent. 



What is ymir estimate as to what the total crop 

 will be for 1921 compared with normal, the 

 estimate heins based upon the yield to date as 

 well as the i)resent condition of the honey 

 jilanfs and the colonies. (Jive answer in per 

 cent. 



What percentage of last year's croj) still vc- 

 mains in the haiuls of the producers? 

 .\t what price do you expect the new crop to 

 move in large lots in your market? Comb 

 honey? Extracted honey? 



•State. 



Ala. 



.\rk.-, 



.\rk. 



H. C. 



Cal. 



Cal. 



Cal. 



Colo. 



Colo. 



Conn. 



Fla. 



Fla. 



Fla. 



Fla. 



Ga. 



Ida. 



111. 



111. 



111. 



Ind. 



Ind. 



la. 



la. 



Kan. 



Kan. 



Ky. 



La. 



Me. 



Mass. 



Md. ' 



Mich. 



Mich. 



Minn. 



Miss. 



Miss. 



Mont. 



Neb. 



N. H. 



Nev. 



Nev. 



N. -T. 



N. Y. 



N. Y. 



N. Y. 



N. Y. 



N. Y. 



N. Y. 



Ohio 



Ohio 



Ohio 



Ohio 



Okla. 



Ore. 



Penn. 



R. I. 



S. C. 



Tenn. 



Tenn. 



Tex. 



Tex. 



Utah 



Utah 



Vt. 



Wash. 



Wash. 



Wash. 



W. Va. 



Wis. 



Wis. 



THE HONEY SITUATION IN THE UNITED 

 STATES. 

 Los Angeles, Calif., May 24. — It is only recently 

 that the honey indiistry has become a specialized, 



important industry in the United States. This de- 

 velopment lias taken place almost entirely in the 

 State of California and is to a great extent the re- 

 sult of the activity of co-operative marketing asso- 

 ciations. 



Heretofore, statistics as to honey production and 

 con.suinption in the United States have been almost 

 negligible, because of the fact that the production 

 of honey was maintained as a .■<ideline by the aver- 

 age agriculturist. The development of the honey 

 industry upon a scientific commercial basis has 

 created the necessity for accurate information as to 

 honey production, and for a careful scientific analy- 

 sis of the honey situation. As a consequence, the 

 Research Department of the Fir.st National Bank 

 of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Trust and 

 Savings Bank has undertaken a careful study of 

 the honey situation in the United States and the 

 State of California. While it has been impossible 

 to secure as detailed information as might be de- 

 sired, because accurate statistics have not been 

 maintained in the past, it has, nevertheless, proved 

 possible to secure a considerable amount of accurate 

 data with regard to the industry. 



California produces approximately 15 per cent of 

 the honey produced in the United States of Amer- 

 ica. Iowa is the second state, producing 6 per cent 

 of the entire crop of the United States. New York, 

 Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin each produce 

 approximately 4 per cent, and Pennsylvania, Geor- 

 gia, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Colorado 

 3 per cent. No other state produces more than 

 2 per cent of the entire honey supply of the United 

 States. 



California alone markets the major proportion of 

 its honey production outside of the vState in which 

 it is produced. As a general rule from 70 to 90 

 per cent of the commercial honey produced in Cali- 

 fornia is marketed outside of the State and from 

 one-third to one-half of the honey marketed outside 

 of the State in which produced is California 

 honey. 



Careful estiinate.s as to commercial honey pro- 

 duction in California during the past twenty years 

 are given below : 

 Year. Pounds 



1900 2,208,000 



1901 8,112,000 



1902 5,125,000 



1903 8,400,000 



1904 1,040,000 



1905 10,000,000 



1906 4,510,000 



1907 7,120,000 



1908 4,524,000 



1909 11,532,000 



1910 4,080,000 



1911 9,500,000 



1912 4,710,000 



1913 3,720,000 



1914 7,950,000 



1915 9,360,000 



1916 8,100,000 



1917 6,500,000 



1918 5,500.000 



1919 6,350,000 



1920 (not final) 9,500,000 



It is impossible to secure accurate figures as to 



total honey produced in the United States of Amer- 

 ica. However, the Chief of the Field Service of 

 the Department of .Vgriculture estimates that 180,- 

 000,000 pounds will approximate the total honey 

 production in the United States during 1916 and 

 states that it is his belief that these figure.s are 

 within 10 per cent of the actual production. Upon 

 this basis it is estimated that the total production 

 for the United States was about 150,000.000 pounds 

 in 1917, 180,000,000 pounds in 1918, 210,000,- 

 000 pounds in 1919 and 250,000,000 pounds in 

 1920. It may be, however, that the 1920 produc- 

 tion of honev in the United States totaled as much 

 as 300,000,000 pounds. This is the estimate made 

 by Dr. E. V. Phillips, Apiculturist of the Bureau 

 of Entomology. 



Commercial honey is produced almost exclusively 

 in the form of extracted or bulk honey, altho there 

 are three forms in which honey enters the com- 

 mercial market. Next in importance to extracted 

 honey i.s comb honey and there is a small amount 

 of chunk honey sold upon the market. By chunk 

 honey is meant that honey which is sold in thg 

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