fidibte Products. 



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thence to be shipped to other countries. Shanghai, too, in the same region sends a 

 considerable quantity of oil to Hongkong, as also Cheffo in the north, and Pakhoi in 

 the south. In the extreme north Tiensin has a large trade in nuts, but for the most 

 part internal. Besides Hongkong, Swatow, Lungchowand Cheffo export nuts and 

 oil from China to foreign countries, but in small measure, and the effect on the 

 European market remains very small. 



Demand and Production in the United States. 



After the Civil War there sprang up in the cities and towns of the Northern 

 United States a liking for roast ground-nuts, which are sold in the streets at every 

 corner. The soldiers of the Northern army brought back the taste for them as a 

 result of their occupation of the South (Annual Report, U. S. Depart. Agriculture, 

 1868, p. 220). Both armies had occupied Virginia in turn, where the farmers 

 all grew small patches for their own use. 



Reference to the monthly reports issued by the United States Department 

 of Agriculture enables us to follow the growth of the demand. In those for 1869 we 

 learn that in Virginia tobacco land which did not pay was being put to the new use 

 of growing pea-nuts. In those for 1870 an account of the North Carolina crop is given 

 showing its extension. In 1871 (see Reports of that year, p. 494) the crop of Viriginia 

 had reached 225,450 bushels, in 1874 (Reports for 1875, p. 512) it had reached 382,610 

 bushels, and in 1882 (Jones The Pea-nut Plant, New York, 1896, p. 66) it reached 

 1,250,000 bushels. Other States meanwhile were growing pea-nuts, and Tenessee, in 

 which it was extending in 1872 (see Reports, p. 488) produced in 1862 460,000 bushels, 

 while North Carolina raised in the same year 140,000 bushels. The heavy demand 

 and insufficient production within the United States fostered a trade between Africa 

 and New York. &c, which the increase of internal cultivation, as shown above, and 

 a tax on all nuts imported from Africa ultimately more or less arrested. Statistics 

 derived from the Year Book of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1897, p. 340. 

 demonstrate the decrease. 



Average Annual Import of Pea-nuts and other Ground-nuts into the United 

 States, by decades. 



Years. 



-Quantity. 



Value. 





lb. 



$ 



1865-1870 

 1871-1880 

 1881-1890 

 1891-1897 



6,522,844 

 1,849,645 

 170,593 

 149,672 



184,564-49 

 46,662-16 

 3,314-24 

 2,655-13 



Shelled pea-nuts being excluded from the preceding table, that which follows 

 from the same source supplements it. 



Average Annual Import of Shelled Pea-nuts and other Ground-nuts into the 

 United States, by decades. 



Years. 



Quantity. 



Value. 





lb. 



$ 



1865-1870 

 1871-1880 

 1881-1890 

 1891-1897 



391,006 

 875,342 

 54,960 

 21,658 



13,713-89 

 14,974-95 

 2,223 97 

 2,623-09 



