2 HENRY GANNETT 



Oats are more cosmopolitan. We produce a little more 

 than a fourth, and are slightly exceeded by Russia, while 

 Germany produces about three fifths as much as the United 

 States. 



Rye and barley are a different story. Of these two 

 cereals the United States produces scarcely any, while Russia 

 raises more than half the world's crop of the former and a 

 fourth of the latter, leading the world in these two cereals. 

 Of rice we produce but a trifling amount, in comparison with 

 the enormous crops of China and India. 



As with corn, so with cotton. Of this textile fibre the 

 United States furnishes three fourths of the world's supply, 

 while India contributes but one eighth, and Egypt one tenth. 

 Two thirds of our crop goes to Europe, to supply the factories 

 of England and the continent. Two thirds of the cotton 

 manufactured in Europe is raised by negro labor in our 

 southern states. 



In the production of other fibres, the showing is not by 

 any means so favorable to the United States. In the matter 

 of wool, we are exceeded by Austria, Argentine, and Russia, 

 which produce, respectively, 19, 15, and 14 per cent of the 

 world's product, while the United States contributes only 

 11 per cent, and spends $20,000,000 annually in supplying 

 her deficiency. Of raw silk we produce none; of hemp 4 per 

 cent only, while Russia raises nearly half the world's supply; 

 and of flax fibre very little. Here again Russia comes to the 

 front, with nearly four fifths of the world's supply. 



Potatoes we gave to Europe, and Europe almost monopo- 

 lizes their cultivation, producing over nine tenths of the 

 world's crop while the United States raises less than one 

 tenth of it. 



Our production of sugar from all sources — from the cane 

 of Louisiana, Porto Rico, and Hawaii, and from beets — is but 

 8 per cent of that of the world. Of cane sugar, we raise about 

 one sixth, and of beet sugar little more than 1 per cent. We 

 spend $100,000,000 per year on imported sugar. 



Of coffee and tea we raise comparatively trifling amounts, 

 importing practically all we use; but in the production of 

 tobacco we lead with 37 per cent of the world's product. In 



