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PER CAPITA EXPORTS. 



As may be inferred from the total amomit, the per capita exports 

 of domestic potatoes are represented by exceediagly small ratios. 

 These hardly equal 0.01 per cent in the 10-year periods previous to 

 1905-1914, but for this period the ratio is 0.017 per cent. 



VALUE OF EXPORTS. 



The exports of domestic potatoes did not reach the value of 

 $1,000,000 previous to 1906, nor the total of $2,000,000 previous to 

 1914, for which year the amount is $2,346,000. In the following 

 year the value of exports of domestic potatoes reached the com- 

 paratively high amount of $3,486,000 and in 1916 the high value of 

 $3,514,000 was reached. 



From an export value of $99,000 in 1849, the exports of domestic 

 potatoes rose to a value of $525,000 as an average for 1895-1904, and 

 an average of $1,298,000 for 1905-1914. 



From 1850 to 1914 the period averages of the value of exports of 

 domestic potatoes range from 70.6 cents to 80.7 cents per bushel; for 

 1849 the average was 63.8 cents per bushel. 



PERCENTAGE OF PRODUCTION. 



Exports of domestic potatoes as a percentage of production pre- 

 sent an obscure appearance. During no year has the fraction been 

 as great as 1 per cent of the production except for 1916, when it was 

 1.12 per cent. The average for the 10-year period 1905-1914 was 

 0.47 per cent, and this was the average for the period 1866-1874. 

 During the intermediate periods the fractions range from 0.28 to 0.36 

 per cent of the production. The percentages that the values of the 

 domestic exports are of the values of the production do not differ 

 materially from those representing quantities. 



PERCENTAGE OF THE SUPPLY. 



The potato supply is so nearly the same as the production that 

 the exports of domestic potatoes are represented by percentages of 

 the supply that are very nearly the same as the percentages, of 

 production. For the 10-year period 1905-1914 the exports of 

 domestic potatoes were 0.46 per cent of the supply, a larger percentage 

 than for any period subsequent to 1866-1874. 



PERCENTAGE OF CONSUMPTION. 



Potato consumption as well as supply is nearly the same as pro- 

 duction, and consequently the exports of domestic potatoes have 

 about the same fraction of consumption as they do of production. 

 In the period 1905-1914 the average fraction of the consumption 

 represented by the domestic exports is 0.5 per cent, a figure that 

 is not exceeded for any period. 



