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(3) Food products that are produced in the United States, 

 but never in sufficient quantities to supply our needs, 



(4) Products grown in limited quantities, or not at all here, 

 and which must be practically all imported. 



(5) Foods which, because a taste for them has not been 

 cultivated here, or because no way has been discovered for 

 transporting them to this country, or since they are extremely 

 perishable, have not been imported. 



The above classification does not include reports from what 

 the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce calls "non- 

 contiguous territories." If the islands which have come under 

 the control of the United States in quite recent years, such as 

 the Philippines, Hawaii and Porto Rico, be included in the 

 United States, the quantity of foodstuffs imported will be quite 

 sensibly diminished, and the variety of those imported will 

 be much less. 



Those foods which are of the most interest are those found 

 in classes (3), (4) and (5). Class (3), "Food products pro- 

 duced in the United States, but never in sufficient quantities to 

 supply our needs," contains varied products which increase 

 and decrease from year to year. Those foods which are both 

 exported and imported in practically equal quantities are not 

 of special interest in this connection. 



One of the first foods to consider in class (3) is sugar. Al- 

 though both cane and beet sugar have been cultivated here for 

 many years, yet the supply is very far from equaling the de- 

 mand. According to the report for 1914-'15 of the amount of 

 sugar consumed, 22.5 percent is raised in this country; 25.4 

 percent was raised in the noncontiguous countries, mentioned 

 above, leaving 52.1 percent to be imported from foreign coun- 

 tries. Most of this supply formerly came from Germany and 

 central Europe, where it was made from the sugar beet. 



In regard to rice, although we raised over 23,000,000 bushels 

 of rice in 1914, yet we import five times as much in order to 

 supply our consumers. This comes largely from India and 

 China. 



We can raise a large variety of nuts in this country, but we 

 import more than 44,000,000 pounds of peanuts annually, to 

 say nothing of the peanut oil which is brought in. The 

 peanuts come especially from tropical islands and the African 

 coast. Walnuts, known as English walnuts, can be readily 



