2 BULLETIN 16% U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 2. —Production of animal and fish fats and oils in the United States 
Product. 
1912 
1914 
1916 
1917 
1918 
Bone grease 
Cod and cod liver oil 
Pounds. 
29, 528, 000 
372, 000 
30,411,000 
1,888,000 
727, 744, 000 
51,414,000 
33, 009, 000 
5,181,000 
.122,568,000 
4, 083, 000 
202,946,000 
931,000 
7,206,000 
1,980,000 
1,001,000 
95,277,000 
Pounds. 
42, 264, 000 
394, 000 
44,688,000 
1,512,000 
887,580,000 
51,303,000 
16, 265, 000 
5,158,000 
143,247,000 
2,495,000 
227,339,000 
632,000 
9,370,000 
1, 470, 000 
1,333,000 
133,195,000 
Pounds. 
34,389,000 
367, 000 
60,212,000 
1,476,000 
1,086,581,000 
76,163,000 
20, 598, 000 
7,239,000 
152, 982, 000 
4,560,000 
275,511,000 
1,691,000 
14, 137, 000 
2, 649, 000 
1,931,000 
129,571,000 
Pounds. 
31,020,000 
439, 000 
65, 250, 000 
1,637,000 
868,389,000 
52,548,000 
18,640,000 
8,317,000 
153, 188, 000 
3,567,000 
268, 825, 000 
1,193,000 
13,839,000 
2,049,000 
3,078,000 
113, 748, 000 
Pounds. 
24,817.000 
712', 000 
53,476,000 
774, 000 
1,008,757,000 
81,289,000 
12,370,000 
9, 764, 000 
Herring oil 
Menhaden oil 
Neats foot oil 
Oleo stock 
145, 929, 000 
743, 000 
304,891,000 
431.000 
Tallow i 
Whale oil 
Wool grease and recovered 
21,020,000 
7,559,000 
954', 000 
165,509,000 
Miscellaneous animal oils 
Miscellaneous fish oils 
V Miscellaneous greases 
Total 
1,315,539,000 
1,568,245,000 
1,870,057,000 
1,605,727,000 
1,838,995,000 
1 Figures include edible and inedible product 
Table 3. — Estimated production of fats and oils in the United States} 
Product. 
1912 
1914 
1916 
1917 
1918 
Pounds. 
2,031,481,000 
1,315,539,000 
Pounds. 
2,455,362,000 
1,568,245,000 
Pounds. 
2,318,866,000 
1,870,057,000 
Pounds. 
2,259,098,000 
1, 605, 727, 000 
Pounds. 
2,308,685,000 
1,838,995,000 
Animal fats and oils 
Total 
3,347,020,000 
4, 023, 607, 000 
4,188,923,000 
3,864,825,000 
4,147,680,000 
Butter fat (farm) 2 
1,660,000,000 
581, 000, 000 
1,613,736,000 
652,382,000 
879,610,000 
630,825,000 
733,222,000 
637, 503, 000 
777,000 000 
Butter fat (factory) 
669, 492, 000 
Total 
2,241,000,000 
2,266,118,000 
1,510,435,000 
1,370,725,000 
1,446,492,000 
5,588,020,000 
6, 289, 725, 000 
5,699,358,000 
5,235,550,000 
5,594,172,000 
1 None of the derivatives reported in Table 11 are included here. 
2 The figures for farm butter fat are based on reports from various sources, and 1 
to be at least 90 per cent correct. 
i believed by the authors 
Table 4. — Importation of fats and oils into the United States. 1 
Product. 
1912 
1914 
Vegetable: 
Chinese nut oil 
Coconut oil 
Cottonseed oil 
Linseed oil 
Olive oil, edible 
Olive oil, inedible 
Olive foots 
Palm oil 
Palm kernel oil 
Peanut oil 
Rapeseedoil 
Soy bean oil 
Animal and fish: 
Cod and cod liver oil. 
Oleo stearin 
Tallow 
Miscellaneous greases . 
Miscellaneous oils 
Total. 
Pounds. 
42, 787, 000 
46, 720, 000 
2, 160, 000 
2, 135, 000 
43,460,000 
5, 794, 000 
15, 804, 000 
52,671,000 
27, 680, 000 
7, 626, 000 
10,266,000 
24,959,000 
9, 178, 000 
609, 000 
14,901,000 
21,727,000 
\, 477, 000 
Pounds. 
30, 139, 000 
58, 012, 000 
16, 016, 000 
4,350,000 
50,857,000 
5, 609, 000 
13, 045, 000 
49, 092, 000 
21,089,000 
7,365,000 
11,172,000 
12,555,000 
14,198,000 
4, 030, 000 
12,690,000 
11,665,000 
10,943,000 
332,827,000 
1916 
Pounds. 
57, 649, 000 
64, 349, 000 
16, 598, 000 
711,000 
55,435.000 
6, 335; 000 
14, 246, 000 
29, 270, 000 
4,324,000 
15,674,000 
20,181,000 
145,409,000 
10,973,000 
649, 000 
13, 087, 000 
9, 580, 000 
23,375,000 
487,845,000 
1917 
Pounds. 
41,190,000 
163,091,000 
13, 826, 000 
633, 000 
51,055,000 
4, 476, 000 
8, 308, 000 
34, 257, 000 
306 
27, 405, 000 
10, 132, 000 
264,926,000 
16,618,000 
5, 555, 000 
73,619,000 
13,551.000 
23, 426; 000 
752, 068, 000 
1918 
Pounds. 
42,717,000 
356,089,000 
18,373,000 
196, 000 
1,284,000 
3,000 
159, 000 
20, 993, 000 
34, 000 
68,466,000 
23, 079, 000 
335,984,000 
8,939,000 
1,557,000 
51,885,000 
29,711,000 
20,984,000 
), 453, 000 
1 The figures in this table are taken from the Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce of the "United 
States, issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, of the United States Department of 
Commerce. 
2 Reported as "All fish and animal oils." 
