CASTOR-OTL INDUSTRY. 



total for these same ports reached 9,108,133 pounds. These ports 

 in the order of their importance, with percentages, are as follows: 

 Tientsin, 45; Shanghai, 19; Newchwang, 17; Kiaochow, 11; Dairen, 

 5; Hankow, 3; Canton, negligible. 



Owing to the campaigns inaugurated by the Allies to increase the 

 world's production of castor beans,- notable quantities of beans and 

 some oil have been entering the world's commerce from Central 

 America, Africa, Japan, and the Malay Archipelago. Table III gives 

 the imports of castor beans from various sources into the United 

 States during the fiscal years 1910 to 1918, inclusive. 



The castor beans and castor oil imported lor consumption during 

 the fiscal years 1910 to 1919, inclusive, minus the quantities exported, 

 are presented in Table IV. Inasmuch as there was during this period 

 practically no American commercial production of castor beans, 

 these figures fairly represent our trade in this commodity. It was 

 "only during 1918 that there was really a commercial American crop, 

 and this was due to the demand for oil for aircraft lubrication. 



Table IV.- — Castor beans and castor oil imported for consumption, minus the quantities 

 exported, during the fiscal years 1910 to 1919, inclusive. 1 



Fiscal 



Castor 



beans 



(bushels). 



Castor 

 oil 



(gallons). 



Total as oil. 



Fiscal 

 year. 



Castor 



beans 



(bushels). 



Castor 



oil 



(gallons). 



Total as oil. 



year. 



Gallons. 



Pounds. 



Gallons. 



Pounds. 



1910... 



752, 374 

 790,241 

 978, 257 

 824, 573 

 1,043,928 





2,106,647 

 2,212,675 

 2, 746, 090 

 2,314,045 

 3, 112, 591 



16, 853, 176 

 17,701,400 

 21,968,720 

 18,512,360 

 24,900,728 



1915.. 

 1916. . 

 1917.. 

 1918. . 

 1919.. 



924,605 

 1,071,969 



767, 019 

 1,262,130 



628, 312 



63,005 



253, 077 



323, 703 



1, 175, 064 



2,651,899 

 3, 354, 590 

 2,471,456 

 4, 709, 028 

 1,759,274 



21,215,192 



1911... 





26, 036, 720 



1912... 

 1913... 

 1914... 



6,971 



5,241 



189, 583 



19, 770, 848 

 37,672,224 

 14,074,192 









1 Th c se figures are taken from "Imports for consumption " in Commerce and Navigation of the United 

 States, and represent the bushel as containing 50 pounds of beans, yielding 45 per cent of oil, or 22.5 pounds, 

 which is equivalent to about 2.8 gallons of oil. 



From November, 1918, to June, 1919, inclusive, the Government 

 plant at Gainesville, Fla., was crushing American-grown castor 

 beans. It crushed 211,000 bushels (of 46 pounds), yielding 463,000 

 gallons of oil, or 3,730,000 pounds. This quantity, of course, is to 

 be added to that produced by the regular castor-bean crushing 

 industry from imported beans, reported above, to show the total 

 consumption and stocks for the fiscal year 1918-19. In the winter 

 of 1917-18 about 6,000 bushels of imported castor beans were used 

 for planting. 



The rate of duty on castor beans. from August 5, 1909, to October 

 4, 1913, was 25 cents per bushel.; subsequent to that date it was 15 

 cents. The duty on the oil for corresponding dates was 35 and 12 

 cents per gallon. 



In 1912, 88 per cent of the. beans imported entered at New York, 

 8 per cent at Grand Rapids, and 4 per cent at Boston. Table V 



