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REPORT OF THE COMJIISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



The following table of hemp importation shows the source of foreign 

 supply iu the hist three years : 



Hcni}) inijporlsfor three years, ending June 30, of each year. 



It is not easy to get at the exact amount of "Eussia hemp" im- 

 ported, as the table also includes the various other "hemps," as Ma- 

 nila, Sunn, Sisal, &:c. The trade name "Eussia hemp" has been ap- 

 plied to Cannabis sativa, to distinguish it from other hemps derived from 

 fohaceous plants. Such hemps will be received from the Spanish pos- 

 sessions (Philippine Islands), Mexico, &c. Much of the hemp credited 

 to England in the above table has doubtless been imported from Eussia 

 into that country, and re-exported to the United States. A large quan- 

 tity of the flax supply comes to us by indirect importation, and princi- 

 pally through England. 



The importation of India jute fiber, jute butts, and jute yarn, for the 

 year ending June 30, 1879, amounted to 82,873,202. Of this amount, 

 $062,930 was for jute fiber,* and $1,702,257 was for jute yarn. This rep- 

 resents, in round numbers, 19,000,000 pounds of jute, 97,500,000 i)Ouiids 

 of jute butts and rejections, and 2,000,000 pounds of jute yarn. This 

 does not include the imports of foreign gunny-cloth. 



Imports of flax, and its manufactures into the United States from 1870 lo 1879, inchmve. 



*Smm hem]) is al.^o included, a coniparativrly .small qn.intity of this fiber euteriug 

 the market, iJiiucipally used for inferior kiuds of rope and coidage. 



