22 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



by that of 1907, and then by only $23,000,000. More than half of 

 the total export value is contributed by raw cotton, the value of which 

 is $585,000,000. 



Packing-house products gain $21,000,000 in value over their ex- 

 ports in 1910, and reach the figure of $157,000,000. But grain and 

 grain products continue the decline which began in 1909 and have 

 fallen to a value of $124,000,000, a loss of $91,000,000 in three years. 



Tobacco continues to show exporting strength, and its value in 1911, 

 $39,000,000, is $1,000,000 above the previous year. The same is true 

 of fruits, with their value of $24,000,000, or $5,000,000 over 1910. 



The exports of live animals have dwindled to $19,000,000, which, 

 however, is a gain of $2,000,000 over 1910. Oil cake and oil-cake 

 meal exports remain as the year before at $20,000,000, but vegetable 

 oils have risen $3,000,000 to a value of $20,000,000. 



IMPORTS. 

 RECORD ALMOST BROKEN. 



By falling short only $8,000,000 the imports of agricultural prod- 

 ucts in 1911 failed to go above the highest record, in 1910. The value 

 for 1911 is $679,000,000. 



The imported silk fiber was valued at $75,000,000; coffee, 

 $91,000,000; vegetable fibers, $56,000,000; seeds, $30,000,000; fruits, 

 $27,000,000— all with increases over the values of 1910. 



Declining from the previous year, the imj^orts of wool in 1911 were 

 valued at $23,000,000; packing-house products, largely hides and 

 skins, $84,000,000 ; sugar and molasses, $98,000,000. 



FOREST PRODUCTS 

 HIGH VALUES. 



The value of exports of domestic forest products continues to ad- 

 vance and the amount for 1911, $103,000,000, is the highest yet 

 reached. The exported lumber was valued at $60,000,000; timber and 

 logs, $17,000,000 ; the naval stores, $25,000,000. 



The imports of forest products in 1911 were valued at $164,000,000, 

 and came within $15,000,000 of equaling the total of 1910, which 

 holds the highest place. India rubber was imported to the value of 

 $76,000,000; other gums, $26,000,000; lumber, $21,000,000; wood pulp, 

 $14,000,000, an import that has doubled in value in four j-ears. 



THE AGRICULTURAL SURPLUS. 

 TREND OF EXPORTS. 



Coincident with the geographic expansion of agriculture on the new 

 land of this country the exports of farm products grew in quantity. 

 That was a period when immigrants became farmers, and farmers' 

 sons established farms on what had been the public domain. 



