IMPORTS 



AND EXPORTS OF 



Imports 



Year 



1914 



Year 

 1913 



Bushels Bushels 



Countries 1st 10 



Months 



1915 

 Bushels 

 Great Britain and 



Ireland 13,521,000 18,213,000 24,321,000 



United States 11,688,000 9,247,000 6,580,000 



Canada 77,000 5,000 



FLAXSEED 



Exports 



Year 



1914 



1st 10 

 Months 



1915 

 Bushels 



Year 

 1913 







5,000 



1,322,000 



Bushels Bushels 







24,000 





 283,000 



7,953,000 22,949,000 



The quantity of oil obtained from a bushel of flax seed varies from 14 to 19 lbs., 

 according to the quality and cleanness of the seed. 



For the year ending March 31, 1914, Canada imported 293,512 lbs. of Linseed Oil, 

 valued at $25,705. 



Germany needs Fats 



Germany could not exist without fats; no country can, least of all a country at 

 war. Glycerine is derived from fats, and explosives largely from glycerine. 



British gentlemanliness has been permitting tremendous quantities of fat to enter 

 Germany by the smugglers way from neutral countries, and even from our own Empire! 

 "That must not happen again!" says Mr. E. S. Grew writing in the London Graphic. 

 "Several other kinds of supplies which have been carried in British ships, and have 

 leaked through neutral countries to Germany, will also not happen again. For the whole 

 range of vegetable fats grow outside Germany, and for the most part must cross the 

 North Sea to get to her. Apart from tallow and a small quantity of linseed, Germany 

 produces no other fat. Imagine, then, with what greed she ponders on the oils and 

 fats which come from the colonies she has lost and by the ocean highways from which 

 her ships are shut off. Cocoanut, or copra, cocoanut oil, palm oil, palm-kernel oil (a 

 rising Germany industry that was), other oleaginous seeds and kernels, linseed oil, soya 

 bean (for cattle food and oil), olive oil, sesame seed and moura seed — here are riches 

 which, properly prized, would yield Germany all the fats she wants. From linseed oil 

 can be obtained glycerine, and from glycerine can be got nitroglycerine, food for the 

 guns as well as for the men behind them. Lard, too, will give glycerine, though we 

 cannot imagine that Germany's fat-hunger would yield this precious stuff even for 

 that purpose. She wants fat to eat; and that is the real reason why the linseed oil, 

 the oil seed, the oleaginous nuts and kernels, the cocoa-nut oil and the cotton-seed 

 oil — all of which left this country in double, or even treble, the normal quantity during 

 the first year of war — must be decisively shut off from Germany and put out of her 

 reach." 



Copra, dried cocoanut kernel, is rich in glycerine and fats, and makes a food for 

 mortals, and in its waste-products a ration for pigs. Germany has still 20,000,000 pigs 

 left out of her usual 50,000,000. —From "Montreal Herald." 



FRUIT PRODUCTION DURING THE WAR 



F. H. GRINDLEY, Fruits Branch, Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa. 



After eighteen months of war in which men and money have been almost incal- 

 culably sacrificed, in which homes have been destroyed and the wheels of commerce and 



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