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Production Value of Exports 



1907 3914598 Kin 2619143 Yen 



1908 3534970 „ 1710493 „ 



1909 3537712 „ 4377816 „ 



1910 4864704 „ *) 4932750 „ 



According to B. A. Bond it is estimated that the camphor forests of 

 Formosa will be exhausted in 45 years' time, but since 1901 the Japanese 

 Government has caused 15000000 young trees to be planted. 



According to a U. S. A. Consular Report 2 ) from Tamsui in Formosa, 

 the camphor exports from that island during the first eleven months of 

 the year 1911 amounted to 4788270 lbs., value $ 1486934. This represents 

 a decline in value of $ 100000 in round figures as compared with the 

 corresponding period of the previous year. This reduction is chiefly 

 accounted for by a falling-off in the exports to the U. S. A., but the ship- 

 ments to Germany and France are also said to have declined. According 

 to a report received at the Bureau of Labour of the U. S. 3 ) a similar 

 reduction is shown in the export-figures relating to Chinese camphor from 

 the port of Foochow, which fell from 524800 lbs. in the year 1909 to 

 130800 lbs. in the year 1910. The principal refinery, which was carried 

 on by a British firm, has closed down, and only one refinery still keeps 

 going. Crude camphor is scarce, and from the forests in the interior no 

 increased supplies are to be expected. 



In our Report of April 1911 we called attention (p. 36) to the decrease 

 which was taking place in the exports of camphor from China. We give 

 below the statistics of the exports from the ports of Shanghai, Amoy, and 

 Foochow, taken from a French journal 4 ): — 



Export in Piculs 1907 1908 1909 1910 



Via Shanghai 4 607 4 064 4 889 4 410 



Via Amoy and Foochow 19 711 8 257 3 945 1005 



In our last Report (p. 27) we referred to a statement by Hutchins on 

 the occurrence of camphor-trees in German East Africa. Hutchins declared 

 in his article that neither the botanists of the Imperial German Biological- 

 Agricultural Institute at Amani, nor the forest officials at Wilhelmstal had 

 recognised the tree. This statement, we are informed by Prof. Zimmerman. 

 Director of the Institute in question, is incorrect; on the contrary, the tree- 

 was perfectly well known to the officials at Amani by the name of Ocotea 



*) Comp. Report October 1911, 25. 



2 ) Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter 81 (1911), No. 1, p. 28F. 



3 ) Ibidem, p. 40. 



4 ) Journ. d' Agriculture tropicale 11 (1911), 319. 



