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per cent of the total crop in Arizona, 85 per cent in Utah and New 

 Mexico, and 82 per cent in California. 



The reports on disposition of honey (Table 4, 13) indicate that while 

 for the entire United States 60.8 per cent of the honey removed from 

 the hive is consumed locally, more than one-half is shipped out of the 

 locality where produced in the States of Vermont, New York, Florida, 

 Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, 

 Arizona, Utah, Idaho, and California. Of the 39.2 per cent thus 

 entering this year the main trade channels as a distinctly commercial 

 crop, California furnished about one-fourth, mostly extracted, and 

 Texas one-eighth, practically all extracted or bulk comb honey. 



The losses shown to colonies during the season from diseases (Table 

 4, 14) averages 1.5 per cent for the United States, being most severe 

 in the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Utah, Idaho, 

 and California. The principal bee diseases mentioned were American 

 foulbrood and European foulbrood. 



The strength of colonies on September 1 compared with normal 

 strength on that date (Table 4, 15) averaged 97.3 per cent for the 

 United States, being above normal in many of the Northern States. 

 The long drawn out, even if intermittent, flow of nectar over much of 

 the country, while not resulting in a heavy honey crop, has encour- 

 aged an unusual amount of brood rearing during the summer, so that 

 colonies are stronger than usual in those sections. 



Information reaching the bureau on mid-September indicates that 

 the fall flow is proving very abundant throughout the Middle West 

 and under these conditions, which are believed to obtain also in most 

 of the country east of the Alleghenies, bees in the territory indicated 

 are rapidly accumulating a comfortable supply of winter stores. 

 In many sections they are storing considerable surplus. 



IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF HONEY. 



As a result, unquestionably, of the interference of the European 

 war with the exports to that continent of honey from Mexico and 

 the West Indies, much more than the usual supply from the countries 

 to the south has been forced upon the United States markets since 

 the war began. 



The total foreign imports into this country for the five fiscal years 

 ending June 30, 1910 to 1914, inclusive, were 104, 113, 115, 116, and 

 75 thousands of gallons, respectively, of which normally about 45,000 

 gallons came from Mexico, about 50,000 from Cuba, and 5,000 from 

 Haiti. The import duty on this honey from Cuba is 8 cents per 

 gallon, and from other foreign countries 10 cents. For the first three 

 months of the fiscal year 1915, beginning July 1, 1914, the imports 

 were 53,000 gallons, during the next quarter, ending December 31, 

 they were 85,000 gallons. For the entire fiscal year they amounted 



