34 BULLETIN 685, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AQEICULTUEE. 



30, 1917, representing in the main in each case the movement 

 of the crop of the preceding year. Unfortunately, the quan- 

 tities have not been reported in the trade statistics until the 

 present year. That shipped abroad is almost all extracted 

 honey (some comb honey going to Canada). The price for 

 extracted honey of good quaUty, such as comprises most of 

 this country's exports, ranged in the neighborhood of 9 cents 

 per pound until the fiscal years 1915 and 1916, when it fell to 

 as low as 7 cents. In 1917 it rebounded to the previous 

 figures and above, and this fiscal year (1918) it has reached 

 to above 15 cents per pound. Some impression may be 

 gained from these figures of the quantity of honey exported, 

 ranging probably from one to two milUon pounds annually 

 up to 1915, between three and four millions in 1916, and six 

 and seven millions in 1917. For the first haK of 1918 they 

 are reported at almost eight million pounds. Prior to the 

 outbreak of the great war more than half of the exports were 

 regularly consigned to Germany. In 1914 these exports fell 

 off somewhat, and in 1915, after small shipm.ents, they ceased. 

 In 1915 a very great increase occurred in the shipments to" 

 England, and in 1916 they doubled the large shipments of 

 1915, while for the year ending June 30, 1917, they probably 

 treble the shipments of 1916. Six months of the fiscal year 

 1918 show shipment values compared with aU of 1917 slightly 

 greater for England, and almost fourfold greater to France, 

 while the formerly insignificant shipments to Italy have 

 leaped to a value of over haK a million dollars. 



The imports of foreign honey into the United States, aggre- 

 gating prior to the war somethiag over 100,000 gallons an- 

 nually, principally from Mexico, Cuba, and other West Indian 

 and Central American countries, are shown in Table XII for 

 the years 1911 to 1917, iacluding both values and quantities. 

 Mexico was our principal source of supply until 1914, with 

 Cuba a close second, but in 1915, while the Mexican supply 

 increased somewhat, the Cuban supply, having its European 

 outlet closed, more than doubled any previous year. In 1916 

 the Mexican shipments fell off very markedly, while those 

 from Cuba and other countries to the south continued to in- 

 crease, and in 1917 they further increased to a total of 427,650 

 gallons, almost double that of any previous year except 1915, 



