494 THE POTATO 



freight to Hamburg, for which my only quotation 

 is 20 shillings ($4.8665) per ton. It costs only 16 

 shillings ($3.8928) per ton to ship German po- 

 tatoes to America, and perhaps if American ships 

 were available it would not cost 20 shillings to 

 ship American potatoes to Germany, or Europe. 

 From August 1st to February 14th foreign pota- 

 toes are admitted free into Germany, but at other 

 times there is an import duty of 60 cents per 

 220 pounds. 



"American potatoes offered for export to Ger- 

 many, apparently, would not bring more, f.o.b. 

 New York, than 28 cents per bushel of 60 pounds 

 for the * Magnum Bonum' and 41 cents for the 

 * egg' variety. The calculation stands as follows : 



Magnum 

 Bonum Egg 



Price per 220 pounds in Hamburg . . $1.52 $2 . 00 

 Less freight from New York to Hamburg 



(48 cents) ........ 1.04 1.52 



Net price in New York, converting price 



per 220 pounds into bushels of 60 



pounds 28 .41 



"With these figures before them, American cor- 

 respondents can determine for themselves whether 

 it will be possible to pay freight rates from farm to 

 seaboard, and compete with the prices named. 

 Statistics follow: 



Potatoes 1909 1908 



Total importations into Germany: 346,617 tons 329,417 tons 



From Belgium 53,620 



Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus. . . 8,989 



France 9,349 



Italy 26,454 



Netherlands 163,311 



Austria-Hungary 16,592 



European Russia 63,1 



48,462 



11,020 



6,757 



19,579 



168,322 



29,439 



43,540 



