32 BULLETIN 685, U. S. DEPABTMENT OF AGEIOULTTIEB. 



MARKET. 



The proportion of the crop oonsumed at home or sold 

 locally and that shipped to outside markets, not necessarily 

 wholesale, is shown in Table X for the three years 1915, 

 1916, and 1917. It may be observed that 39.2 per cent 

 was shipped to outside markets in 1915, 36.0 per cent in 

 1916, and but 28.9 per cent in 1917, the decreasing per- 

 centage released for the general market in 1917 being due 

 partly to a moderate crop, which, even if the home cx)n- 

 sumption remained the same, would require a larger per- 

 centage of the crop, and partly to the shortage in the sugar 

 supply, which created a keener home demand for honey. 

 The smaller percentage of the smaller 1917 crop sent to out- 

 side markets, if contrasted with the larger percentage re- 

 tained of the larger crop of 1916, indicates only about 60 

 per cent as much honey disposed of through the main trade 

 channels. 



Tablk XI. — Value of exports of domestic honey from the United States, 



1911-1917. 





Fiscal year ending June 30— 



Conntry of destination. 



1911 



1912 



1913 



1914 



1916 



1916 



1917 



1918, 6 

 months 

 ending 

 Dec, 

 1917. 



Europe: 



Denmark 



Dollars. 



Dollars, 



Dollars. 



Dollars. 



Dollars, 

 14,375 

 2,114 

 10,200 

 2,378 

 6,991 



Dollars. 



8,854 



868 



Dollars. 

 10,615 

 20,678 



Dollars. 

 75,625 



France 





189 



134,175 



221 



12,836 



3,326 

 107,069 



3,039 



8,090 



75,233 



173 



11,398 





38,769 





Italy 



11,122 



13,483 

 2,000 

 4,600 

 8,300 



596,626 

 53,614 



2,675 

 23,648 



600, 354 



Netherlands 



5.232 





Norway 





Sweden 

















United Kingdom: 

 England 



8,267 

 20,275 



2,838 

 6,268 



27,573 

 23,666 



3,519 

 10,474 



16,369 

 43,276 



1,701 

 7,472 



3,969 

 27,384 



2,495 

 6,927 



61,713 

 14,930 



2,149 

 9,188 



123,931 

 38,398 



2,635 

 66,679 



625,037 

 36,589 



2,437 



North America: Canada. 

 Oceania, Philippine Is- 

 lands 



Another 



14,945 





Total 



81, 649 



212,652 



182,252 



135,669 



114,038 



252,487 



736, 139 



1,254,887 





