404 PASTURAGE AND OVERSTOCKING. 
We have no official statistics of the honey crops of the 
United States, but the following extract from the American 
Bee-Journal (1886), will give an idea of the immensity of 
our honéy resources, considering the comparatively small 
areas of this country now occupied by Apiarists. 
“The California Grocer says that the crop of 1885 was about 
1,250,000 pounds. The foreign export from San Francisco dur- 
ing the year was approximately 58,800 cases. ‘The, shipments 
East by rail were 360,000 pounds from San Francisco, and 910,000 
pounds from Los Angeles, including both comb and extracted. 
We notice that another California paper estimates the crop of 
1885 at 2,000,000 pounds, and the crop of the United States for 
1885 was put down at 26,000,000 pounds. We do not think these 
figures are quite large enough, though it was an exceedingly 
poor crop.”’ 
But former years have given still better results. Through 
the courtesy of Mr. N. W. McLain, of the U. S. Apicultural 
Station, we have received the following statistics from 
““The Resources of California, 1881’: 
The honey shipped from Ventura County, California, 
during 1880 amounted to 1,050,000 lbs. The Pacific Coast 
Steamship Company of San Diego shipped 1,191,800 pounds 
of honey from that county in the same year. 
The crop of the five lower counties in California that 
year, was estimated by several parties at over three million 
pounds. 
According to a report of S. D. Stone, Clerk of the Mer. 
chants’ Exchange of San Francisco, the actual amount of 
honey shipped to that city from different parts of California 
in the sixteen months ending May 1, 1881, was 4,340,400 
pounds, equal to two hundred and seventeen car-loads. 
One hundred tons of honey, in one lot, were shipped during 
the same year, from Los Angeles to Europe on the French 
bark Papillon. This had all been purchased from Los 
Angeles Apiarists. 
712. In the excellent season of 1883, the honey crop of 
