THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



387 



We copy as follows from the U. S. Monthly 

 Crop report for September loth, 1915. 



Honoy Production and Trade 



The total production of honey this year is 

 about 12 per cent greater than last year, ac- 

 cording to reports received September 1. 



The total foreign imports during the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1915, were 303,965 gal- 

 lons valued at $124,843, compared with 75,079 

 gallons the previous year, valued at $38,665, in 

 addition to imports from Porto Rico and Ha- 

 waii to the aggregate value of $130,431, com- 

 pared with about $125,000 last year 



The increased imports are from the West 

 Indies and Mexico principally, and result large- 

 ly from interference with their usual European 

 market as a result of the war abroad. 



Exports made during the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1915, were valued at $114,038, com- 

 pared with $136,000 for the previous year. 



United States Sugar Imports 



Sugar received into the United States from 

 island possessions and foreign countries 

 amounted to 3,643,000 short tons during the 

 year ending June 30, 1915, or 233,000 tons more 

 than in the preceding year. Of the 1915 re- 

 ceipts, 2,392,000 tons came from Cuba, 154,- 

 000 from other foreign countries, 640,000 from 

 Hawaii, 294,000 from Porto Rico, and 163,000 

 from the Philippine Islands. In the fiscal year, 

 1914, Cuba supplied 2,463,000 tons, other for- 

 eign countries 11,000 Hawaii 557,000, Porto 

 Rico 321,000, and the Philippine Islands 

 58,000. 



Guelph, Canada, Sept. 10th, 1915 

 Dark Honey Crop Report 



The Crop Report committee of the Ontario 

 Beekeepers' Association met on Thursday, 

 Sept. 9th., to consider the crop of Dark Honey. 

 It was found that 105 members had reported 

 116,400 lbs, from 5,807 colonies ; being an aver- 

 age of 20 lbs. to the colony. This is about 

 double of last year's average. The committee 

 advises members to ask 7Voc to SV^c per pound 

 wholesale, depending on the size of package 

 and the quantity sold in one order. No buck- 

 wheat honey should be retailed for less than 

 10c per pound. 



The local demand for white honey is ex- 

 ceedingly good as many people are buying to 

 put away instead of canned fruit and the prices 

 recommended by the committee are being rea- 

 lized. 



Wholesalers are cautious about buying all 

 lines of goods, including honey and naturally 

 have made an effort to buy as low as possible. 

 A few large oi'ders have been filled at a 

 slightly lower figure than recommended, but 

 these orders were for ton lots. 



There is yet a large quantity of light honey 

 unsold, but the market is firm and a great 

 many of the smaller beekeepers report their 

 crop all sold at prices recommended by the 

 committee. All considered the committee feels 

 that honey need not be sold below prices recom- 

 mended. 



Signed by the Committee : 

 Wm. Couse, 

 H. G. Sibbald, 

 W. J. Craig, 

 Morley Pettit, Sec.-Treas. 



Denver, Colorado, Sept. 10, 1915. 

 Editor Beekeepers' Review, 



Northstar, Mich. 



On page 325 September Review we see the 

 following remark, "A few sections in each 

 case may weigh less than the stamped net 

 weight but in this event enough sections in the 

 case must weigh enough more to make up 

 what the short weight sections lack." We 

 would like to be informed where you got your 



information from, that the federal authorities 

 will allow this. The rules formulated by the 

 committee and of which rules we have a copy, 

 positively state that no tolerance will be al- 

 lowed in the weight of comb honey while there 

 is a tolerance allowed in bottles of extracted 

 honey. As we are considerably interested in 

 this matter we should like to hear from you 

 by return mail and would consider same a 

 great favor. 



Yours very truly. 

 The Colorado Honey Producers' Ass'n. 



F. Rauchfuss, Manager. 

 FR-HA 



(We had no authority for saying sections of 

 comb honey would be admitted in a case weigh- 

 ing less than they were stamped, providing 

 the aggregate weight of the case was sufficient 

 to make up any shortage caused by the light 

 weight sections. We got the Glass containers 

 mixed with our Comb honey suggestions. The 

 only tolerance allowed is in Glass bottles of ex- 

 tracted honey. It is like this : It seems im- 

 possible for the glass manufacturers to maKe 

 their containers all alike so there is a varia- 

 tion in the amount the different containers of 

 the same description will hold, thus the toler- 

 ance. In this case your net weight stamii must 

 not be more than an average weight of, say 

 a case as sold to a grocer. We hasten to ir.ake 

 this correction. Ed.) 



Had it occured to you that it would come in 

 handy this year to receive a cent a pound 

 more for your honey than if sold through the 

 old channel, to the large jobber ? If you have 

 been jobbing your honey too cheap in past 

 years, list your honey in the free to subscrib- 

 er list in the next number of the Review, 

 and if you have a good article your desire 

 can be realized. Try it this year and be 

 convinced. Remember that a cent a pound 

 figures $10.00 on each thousand pounds sold, 

 worth looking after, isn't it ? 



A Manual of Bee Husbandry by Elmer G. 

 Carr, Deputy of the State Entomologist in 

 Bee Inspection of New Jersey is on my desk. 



It is a 72 page bulletin issued by the State 

 Board of Agriculture, treating on Beekeeping 

 in New Jersey. The Manual seems to be well 

 gotten up and we recommend it to the New 

 Jei'sey beekeepers as well worth their perusal. 

 Mr. Carr, besides being one of New Jersey's 

 bee inspectors, is also one of the Directors of 

 the National Beekeepers' Association, also Se- 

 cretary of the New Jersey State Beekeepers' 

 Association. 



We take pleasure in copying from the State 

 Register, South Dakota, under date of July 3, 

 1915 as follows : 



"On Wednesday the new fiscal year began 

 and with it Hon. T. M. Goddai-d representa- 

 tive for Sully, Hyde and Hughes counties took 

 charge of the Soldiers' Home at Hot Springs, 

 a; commandant. Mr. Goddard succeeds ex- 

 Congressman W. V. Lucas, who declined to 

 serve longer in that capacity. Mr. Goddard 

 was born near Troy, Iowa, November 24, 1846. 

 At the age of 16 he enlisted in Company E. 

 Third Iowa Cavalr.v, and served until the end 

 of the rebellion. He attended school at the 

 Troy academy and Iowa State university and 

 has a diploma from the law department of 

 the latter. He practiced law at Centerville, 

 Iowa, from. 1847 to 1883 when he moved to 

 Sully county and took a homestead. He has 

 resided there ever since. He served twice as 

 district attorney, three terms as county 

 judge of Sully county, and is now serving his 

 fourth consecutive term as representative in 

 the legislature. Half h'i life has been spent 

 as a member of the board of education of his 

 home district." 



