FOBEIGN TEADE IN FAEM AND FOEEST PEODUCTS. 19 



During the five years 1910-1914: an average of 27 million pounds 

 annually came from Argentina, 17 million pounds from Australia, 

 33 million pounds from China, 4J million pounds from New Zealand, 

 16 million pounds from European Russia, 10 million pounds from 

 Asiatic and European Turkey, 69 million pounds from the United 

 Kingdom, and 4^ million pounds from Uruguay. As a port of entry 

 for imports of wool for recent years Boston exceeded all the other 

 ports. New York was second and Philadelphia third. 



SILK. 



The largest quantity of silk waste exported from this country for 

 any one year was 300,553 pounds in 1909, which decreased to 266,207 

 pounds the following year, and again decreased to 27,597 pounds in 

 1914. Four countries, China, France, Italy, and Japan, have been 

 the chief source of our silk supply. Japan has annually supplied 

 about one-half of the silk used in this country, which is mostly raw, 

 in skeins, or as reeled from the cocoon. From 1871 to 1879 imports 

 of this grade of silk averaged a little over 1 million pounds annually. 

 These imports increased to more than 10 million pounds in 1898, 23 

 million pounds in 1909, and to nearly 29 million pounds in 1914. 

 The average annual imports for all silk for the five years ending 

 with 1909 were 20,060,664 pounds, of which 47.6 per cent was sup- 

 plied by Japan, 20.2 per cent by Italy, 17.4 per cent by China, and 8.1 

 per cent by France. For the five years ending with 1914 the imports 

 averaged annually 28,671,132 pounds, of which Japan supplied 55.4 

 per cent, China 22.2 per cent, Italy 11.4 per cent, and France 3.6 

 per cent. 



EGGS. 



The eggs consigned to foreign countries ranged from 1,300,000 

 dozen in 1897 to 20 million dozen in 1913, and decreased to 16 million 

 dozen in 1914. Canada and Cuba have received about three- fourths 

 of our eggs exported during the last 20 years. During the last 10 

 years Mexico has taken an average of more than half a million dozen 

 annually, and since 1908 Panama has taken a like amount. Prior 

 to 1897 the imports greatly exceeded the exports, but since that time 

 the reverse has been the case. 



The imports of eggs in 1872 were a little less than 5 million dozen, 

 which increased to 16^ million dozen in 1884, and decreased to less 

 than 3 million dozen in 1895. This product continued to decrease 

 to a little more than 231,000 dozen in 1907, and again increased to 

 more than 6 million dozen in 1914. Twenty years ago, or in 1895, 

 nearly all of the imported eggs came from Canada, but for the last 

 five years the United Kingdom has been the chief source of supply. 

 During 1914 Austria-Hungary supplied more than 1 million dozen; 



