34 BULLETIN 685^ U. S. DEPAKTMENT OF AGKICULTUEE. 
30, 1917, representing in tlie 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 ahnost all extracted f 
honey (some comb honey going to Canada). The price for 
extracted honey of good quahty, 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 milhon pounds annually 
up to 1915, between three and four millions in 1916, and six 
and seven milhons in 1917. For the first haK of 1918 they 
are reported at almost eight miUion pounds. Prior to the 
outbreak of the great war more than hah of the exports were 
regularly consigned to Germany. In 1914 these exports fell 
off somewhat, and in 1915, after small shipments, 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 all of 1917 shghtly 
greater for England, and almost fourfold greater to France, 
while the formerly insignificant shipments to Italy have 
leaped to a value of over half a miUion dollars. 
The imports of foreign honey iato 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, including 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 feU 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, 
