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In 1899 the same quantity cost 50 yen, and in 1902 the price had in- 

 creased to 88 yen. Since the introduction of the camphor monopoly, the 

 Monopoly Department buys crude camphor at 60 to 65 yen per 100 kin, and 

 sells the purified camphor at 115 to 123 yen. On foreign markets, however, 

 the article costs ^25 to ^26 (250 to 260 yen). The commercial statistics of 

 the last five years show the quantity and the value of the exported camphor 



and camphor oil as follows: — „ , 



r Camphor: 



4165757 kin 3904923 yen 



3953211 „ 3404832 „ 



3 985 36o „ 3 537 844 11 



3 140800 ,, 3 168 197 „ 



2284794 „ 2566232 ,, 



Camphor oil: 

 1561970 km 239933 yen 



630985 ,, 92488 ,, 



1400921 ,, 181919 ,, 



1 189921 ,, 189 124 ,, 



1 264 184 ,, 216 122 ,, 



The total production of camphor and camphor oil for the last few years 

 (1906 only estimated) is contained in the following official summary: — 



Camphor: Camphor oil: 



1904 . . . . 4023519 km 3434689 km 



1905 .... 4102362 „ 3417531 „ 



1906 .... 4185906 „ 3484387 ii 



This shows that about 9O°/ of the total production was exported. The 

 quantities imported again into Japan in the form of celluloid during the last 

 five years were: — 



1901 .... 383616 kin 1903 .... 339499 kin 



1902 .... 275939 „ 1904 .... 253643 „ 



1905 .... 496865 kin 



The productive capacity of Japan amounts to: — 



Camphor: Camphor oil: 



Formosa .... 32000000 kin 22360000 km 



Old Japan . . . 33235000 „ 34290000 „ 



The Camphor Monopoly Department strongly recommends that great at- 

 tention should be paid to the cultivation and care of camphor trees, in order 

 to maintain the productive capacity in this staple article at the proper level. 



The Bulletin of the Imperial Institute contains a monograph on 

 the camphor production 1 ). We would here only refer to this inter- 

 esting treatise, as all the information worth knowing has already been 

 dealt with in the numerous notes on this subject in our Reports. 



In our last Report 2 ) we discussed £ camphor oil which had been 

 sent to us by the Imperial Biolo'gico- Agricultural Institute at Amani 

 in German East Africa, and, contrary to the Japanese oil, contained 

 no safrol, but in spite of this proved to be a very valuable and 



x ) Bull. Imp. Inst. 4 (1906), 353. 

 2 ) Report October 1906, 20. 



