32 BULLETIIS" 686, U. S. DEPAKTMINT OF AGRIOULTXJBB, 
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 1015, ^ 
1916, and 1917. It may be observed that 39.2 per cent 
was shipped to outside markets in 1915, 36.0 per ctnt 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 con- 
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. 
Country of destination. 
Fiscal year ending Jime 30— 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918,6 
months 
ending 
Dec, 
1917. 
Europe: 
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. 
75,525 
189 
134,175 
221 
12,835 
3,326 
107,069 
8,090 
75,233 
173 
11,398 
38, 769 
Italy 
13,483 
2,000 
4,600 
8,300 
596,626 
53,614 
2,575 
23,648 
600,354 
6,232 
3,039 
11,122 
United Kingdom: 
North America: Canada. 
Oceania, Philippine Is- 
Total 
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 
51,713 
14,930 
2, 149 
9,188 
123,931 
38,898 
2,635 
66,679 
625,037 
36,589 
2, 437 
14, 945 
81,649 
212,652 
182,252 
135, 669 
114,038 
252, 487 
736,139 
1,254,887 
