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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 



Exports of peppermint oil, hy countries, for the fiscal year ended June 30, IDOJf.a 



Country. 



Belgrium 



France 



Germany 



Italy... 



Netherlands 



United Kingdom 



Dominion of Canada: 



Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, etc 

 Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, etc... 



Newfoundland and Labrador 



West Indies: 



British 



Cuba 



Danish 



Dutch _ 



Argentina 



British Guiana. 



Peru 



British Australasia 



Total 



42,939 



124,728 



"The Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States for the year ending 

 June 30, 1904, vol. 1, p. 531, Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor. 



Quantities and values of peppermint oil exported during the fiscal years 1895 



to 1904, inclusive.^ 



" From The Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States for the year ending 

 June 30, 1901!, vol. 2, p. 309. Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department ; and The 

 Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States for the year ending June 30, 

 1904, vol. 1, p. 192, Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor. 



PRICES OF PEPPERMINT OIL. 



The price of peppermint oil was very low for a few years j^rior to 

 1900, the enormous production of 1897 resulting in a great drop in 

 price. The lowest price paid for it was in 1899, when it brought 

 only 75 cents per pound. As a result of the low price a great many 

 mint farmers restricted the area of their mint plantations or alto- 

 gether abandoned peppermint cultivation. The smaller output of 

 the following seasons again sent prices up, and in 1902 the oil sold 

 as high as $4.75 a pound, which price was maintained until early in 

 1903, when it gradually declined, until toward the end of that year it 

 reached $2.20 per pound. . . 



