26 BULLETIN 296, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



nearly two-thirds of a century was 3,287,804,238 bushels, of which 

 1,655,241,135 bushels went to the United Kingdom. In recent times 

 the percentage of our exports in corn taken by the United Kingdom 

 has been diminishing, due partly to the increasing competition of 

 other countries in supplying the world's demand for maize and partly 

 to our own increasing use for the corn or produce. Among other 

 countries that have been quite regular purchasers of American corn 

 may be mentioned Germany, British North America, the Nether- 

 lands, Denmark, and Belgium. 



In general, our imports of corn have been insignificant in amount, 

 but within the last few years increasing quantities have been im- 

 ported into the United States from Argentina. During the fiscal 

 year 1914 we imported 12,367,000 bushels, of which 11,624,000 bushels 

 were from Argentina. During 1901-1913 the yearly imports of corn 

 ranged from 5,169 to 903,062 bushels. 



Rice. — Beginning with 1713, the exports of rice from the British 

 colonies in North America amounted to more than 3 million pounds, 

 and increased to 76,511,000 pounds in 1771, from which an annual 

 decrease is shown to 12,112,000 pounds in 1783, increasing to 50 

 million pounds in 1789. The exports continued to increase to 105 

 million pounds in 1828, and 127,789,800 pounds in 1836, then a de- 

 crease to 136,143 pounds is shown in 1883, after which a yearly in- 

 crease is shown to 163,091,000 pounds in 1914. 



The imports of rice were nearly 57 million pounds in 1862, which 

 increased 500 per cent in 1914, the imports being 290 million pounds. 

 During the last three years practically all of the " uncleaned " rice 

 has been supplied by Japan. China supplied more than half of the 

 " cleaned " rice during 1912-1913, the imports being 13 and 22 million 

 pounds, respectively. In 1914 more than half of our imports of cleaned 

 rice came by way of the Netherlands, the imports from that country 

 being 48 million pounds, while the imports from China were 30 mil- 

 lion pounds. The rice flour, meal, and broken rice imported in 1885 

 were 38 million pounds, which increased to 140 million pounds in 

 1914. Germany consigned about 90 per cent of this article 20 years 

 ago, but decreased to a little less than one-half during the last five 

 years, 1910-1914. During this latter period about one-fourth came 

 from the Netherlands, and large quantities also came from Austria- 

 Hungary, the United Kingdom, China, Hongkong, and Si am. 



Barley. — Exports of this grain have shown wide fluctuations, the 

 exports being 66,482 bushels in 1864, 9,810 bushels in 1868, nearly 4 

 million bushels in 1878, 200,000 bushels in 1882, 5 million bushels in 

 1894, 20 million bushels in 1897, 24 million bushels in 1900, H million 

 bushels in 1912, 18 million bushels in 1913, and nearly 7 million 

 bushels in 1914. The United Kingdom has been the destination for 

 about 75 per cent of our barley during the last 20 veins. 



