32 BULLETIN 685, U. S. DEPABTMBNT OF AGKIOULTtTBB. 



MARKET. 



The proportion of the crop consumed 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 otnt 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. 



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



1911-1917. 



