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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 
