28 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 



Exports of peppermint oil, oy countries, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 190k- a 



Country. 



Quan- 

 tity. 



Value. 



Belgium 



France 



Germany 



Italy.. 



Netherlands 



United Kingdom 



Dominion of Canada: 



Nova Scotia. New Brunswick, etc 

 Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, etc... 



Newfoundland and Labrador 



West Indies: 



British 



Cuba 



Danish 



Dutch 



Argentina.. 



British Guiana _ 



Peru.. 



British Australasia 



Total 



Pounds. 



473 



3,054 



22,372 



826 



590 



11,558 



85 



1,165 



94 



183 

 29 

 17 

 20 



1,237 

 10 

 50 



1,176 



$1,585 

 10,059 

 65,505 

 2,471 

 1,934 

 31,798 



234 



3,306 

 204 



700 

 87 

 55 

 61 

 3,504 

 31 

 175 

 3,019 



42.939 



124.71 



a The Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States for the year ending 

 June 30, 1904, vol. 1, p. 531, Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor. 



Quantities and values of peppermint oil exported during the fiscal years 1895 



to 1904, inclusive."' 



Fiscal year. 



Quan- 

 tity. 



Value. 



Fiscal year. 



Quan- 

 tity. 



Value. 



1895. 



Pounds. 

 87.633 

 85,290 

 162,492 

 145,375 

 117, 462 



$194,616 

 174,810 

 257,484 

 180,811 

 118,227 



1900 



1901 



1902 



1903 



1904 



Pounds. 

 89,558 

 60,166 

 36,301 

 13,033 

 42.939 



|90. 298 



1896... 



63, 672 



1897 



1898 



54,898 

 34. 943 



1899 



124, 728 







° From The Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States for the year ending 

 June 30, 1902, vol. 2, p. 309, Bureau of Statistics. Treasury Department; and The 

 Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States for the year ending June 30, 

 1904, vol. 1, p. 192, Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor. 



PRICES OF PEPPERMINT OIL. 



The price of peppermint oil was very low for a few years prior to 

 1900, the enormous production of 1897 resulting in a great drop in 

 price. The lowest price paid for it was in 1899, when it brought 

 only 75 cents per pound. As a result of the low price a great many 

 mint farmers restricted the area of their mint plantations or alto- 

 gether abandoned peppermint cultivation. The smaller output of 

 the following seasons again sent prices up, and in 1902 the oil sold 

 as high as $4.75 a pound, which price was maintained until early in 

 1903, when it gradually declined, until toward the end of that year it 

 reached $2.20 per pound. 



