FOREIGN TRADE IN FARM AND FOREST PRODUCTS. 3 



other than india rubber, and alcoholic liquors, each $20,000,000; 

 cocoa and chocolate, tea, wood pulp, and nuts, each valued at over 

 $15,000,000 ; dairy products and live animals, each $9,000,000. 



LEADING COUNTRIES. 



UNITED KINGDOM. 



The United Kingdom leads all the countries in the world as a 

 market for the domestic farm and forest products of the United 

 States. During the last 10 years the United Kingdom averaged 

 annually 39 per cent of all farm and forest products exported. 



Nearly one-half of the cotton exported was taken by this market 

 during the five years 1910-1914, averaging annually 1,750,000,000 

 pounds, valued at $220,000,000. Three-fourths of the hops exported, 

 one-half of the glucose and grape sugar, live animals, sugar, and 

 starch, one-third of the packing-house products, grain and grain 

 products, tobacco, and dairy products are sent to the United 

 Kingdom. 



During the five-year period 1910-1914 an annual average of one- 

 third of the wheat, which is the leading grain exported, amounting 

 to over 20,000,000 bushels; one-fourth of the corn, amounting to 

 11,000,000 bushels; and three- fourths of the barley, or 5,000,000 

 bushels, were consigned to the United Kingdom. Ninety per cent of 

 the grain products exported went to that country, of which wheat 

 Hour was the largest item, having an annual average of 3,000,000 bar- 

 rels, valued at $14,000,000. 



The value of wood (logs, lumber, hewn and sawed timber) exceeds 

 that of all other forest products exported, and of this the United 

 Kingdom receives nearly one-fourth, amounting to $80,000,000 an- 

 nually. Of the naval stores, the United Kingdom takes about one- 

 fifth of the rosin exported amounting annually to 500,000 barrels, 

 valued at $3,000,000, and almost one-half of the spirits of turpentine, 

 or 7,000,000 gallons, valued at $3,000,000. 



In the import trade of the United States the United Kingdom takes 

 fourth place, first, second, and third places being held by Cuba, Brazil, 

 and Japan. The value of india rubber exceeds that of all other 

 articles imported and was valued at $28,000,000. Packing-house 

 products were valued at $13,000,000, of which $8,000,000 were hides 

 and skins. One-third of the wool, amounting to 69,000,000 pounds, 

 valued at $15,000,000; one-fourth of the vegetable oils, valued at 

 $6,000,000; over one-fourth of the alcoholic liquors, valued at $5,000,- 

 000; also tea, 12,000,000 pounds, valued at $3,000,000; vegetables, 

 feathers and downs, and mahogany, each amounting to $2,000,000 

 annually, came from that coimtry. 



