. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. u JflurMl, DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. VOL. XX. CHICAGO, ILL., MAY 14, 1884. No. 20. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor and Pkoprietor. The Honey Crop of California. We have received the following ex- planatory letter from Messrs. Geo. W. Meade & Co., of San Fraucisco, Cal., dated April 29,1884. They say : In the I5ee .Journal of April 23, we notice that Messrs. Stearns & Smitli, of this city, dispnte the figures we gave in our "annual review, as a close approximation of the California honey cro
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. u JflurMl, DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. VOL. XX. CHICAGO, ILL., MAY 14, 1884. No. 20. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor and Pkoprietor. The Honey Crop of California. We have received the following ex- planatory letter from Messrs. Geo. W. Meade & Co., of San Fraucisco, Cal., dated April 29,1884. They say : In the I5ee .Journal of April 23, we notice that Messrs. Stearns & Smitli, of this city, dispnte the figures we gave in our "annual review, as a close approximation of the California honey crop of last year, in which we set forth tlie total production at 9G0,- 000 lbs. The lirm above referred to, place the quantity at l,8S7,O0U lbs.; in other words, an excess over our figures of lbs. Our figures were compiled, as they always are, from the only reliable sources in all the honey sections of the State ; and, in making figures, we deal with vxights only, and not cases, as both the cases used for comb and extracted honey now differ in size and ipiantity of honey contained therein. Let us analyze the figures as given by Messrs. S. & S. They state the re- ceipts at .S,() cases extracted honey, which, it seems, they figure at li!0 lbs. net weight each. Allowing that the number of cases is correct, al- though it is not known where they obtained their information, it is a fact well known to large lioney dealers here tliat fully one-half, if not more, of this lioney' was packed and re- ceived this year in cases of nne-tin each, which hold only about 70 to 7-5 lbs. net of honey. Deduct, therefore, 50 lbs. each on, say cases of honey, and we liave a deficiency on the start on extracted honey alone of ^ lbs. from tlieir figures. The same authority also places the production of comb honey at 4,228 cases, wliich they each, or 253,480 lbs., an equivalent of 12 to 13 cars of comb honey ; when from the most reliable sources in the whole
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