BULLETIN 296, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGBICULTUEE. 



GERMANY. 



During the last 10 years Germany averaged annually about 18 per 

 cent of the total farm and forest products exported from the United 

 States. Of these products the leading articles are cotton, packing- 

 house products, grain and grain products, forest products, oil cake 

 and oil-cake meal, fruits, and alcoholic liquors. 



During the five-year period, 1910-1914, Germany took 28 per cent 

 of the cotton, amounting to an annual average of 1,000,000,000 

 pounds, valued at $150,000,000; about one-eighth of the packing- 

 house products, valued at $25,000,000; nearly one-third of the lard, 

 amounting to 142,000,000 pounds, valued at $16,000,000 ; one-third of 

 the sausage casings, or 14,000,000 pounds, valued at $2,000,000 ; one- 

 sixth of the oleo oil, or 20,000,000 pounds, valued at $2,000,000 ; and 

 one-fourth of the hides and skins, amounting to 7,000,000 pounds, 

 valued at $700,000; also our exports to Germany in 1910-1914 in- 

 cluded an annual average of 6,000,000 bushels of wheat, valued at 

 $6,000,000 ; 5,000,000 bushels of corn, valued at $3,000,000 ; over one- 

 half of the dried grains and malt sprouts, or 30,000 tons, 1 valued at 

 $800,000; and one-half of the mill feed, or 96,000 tons, valued at 

 $3,000,000. Of the forest products exported, Germany took naval 

 stores valued at over $5,000,000, consisting of 700,000 barrels 2 of 

 rosin, with a value of $4,000,000, and 2,900,000 gallons of spirits of 

 turpentine, valued at $1,400,000. 



France held third place in the export trade of the United States 

 during the last 10 years, and has received annually about one-sixth 

 of the domestic farm and forest products. That country took, annu- 

 ally during the five years 1910-1914, over 500,000,000 pounds of cot- 

 ton, valued at $70,000,000; $3,000,000 each of forest products, pack- 

 ing-house products, and grain and grain products; $1,000,000 each of 

 fruits, oil cake and oil-cake meal, and vegetable oils. 



Leading farm and forest products imported from France are: 

 Packing-house products, alcoholic liquors, vegetable oils, gums, nuts, 

 wool, vegetables, silk, seeds, argols or wine lees, live animals, nursery 

 ■stock, and vanilla beans. 



As a destination for agricultural products, Brazil was exceeded Iry 

 9 countries in 1905 and by 18 countries in 1914. Consignments to 

 Brazil of this class of merchandise were valued at $2,144,000 in 1905 

 and $4,714,000 in 1914, of which the principal item was wheat flour, 

 valued at $1,226,000 in 1905 and $3,752,000 in L9] !. 



1 Tons used in this bulletin are tons of 2,240 pounds. 

 Barrels of 2S0 pounds for rosin, tar, turpentine, and pitch. 



