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total for these same ports reached 9,108,133 pounds. These ports 
in the order of their importance, with percentages, are as follows: 
ae. 45; Shanghai, 19; Newchwang, 17; Kiaochow, Me Dairen, 
; Hankow, 3; Canton, negligible. 
© Onine to the campaigns inaugurated by the Allies to increase the 
world’s production of castor beans, notable quantities of beans and 
some oil have been entering the world’s commerce from Central 
America, Africa, Japan, and the Malay Archipelago. Table III gives 
the imports of castor beans from various sources into the United 
States during the fiscal years 1910 to 1918, inclusive. 
The castor beans and castor oil imported for consumption during 
the fiscal years 1910 to 1919, inclusive, minus the quantities exported, 
are presented in Table TV. Inasmuch as there was during this period 
practically no American commercial production of castor beans, 
these figures fairly represent our trade in this commodity. It was 
only during 1918 that there was really a commercial American crop, 
and this was due to the demand for oil for aircraft lubrication. 
TaBLE 1V.—Castor beans and_castor oil imported for consumption, minus the quantities 
- exported, during the fiscal years 1910 to 1919, inclusive.! 
Totalas oil. 
Castor Castor 
Total il. 
Castor Castor otal as oil 
year beans oil SES | alae Sell year beans oil 
" | bushels). (gallons). Gallons. | Pounds. "| (bushels). | (gallons).| Gains. | Pounds. 
1910.2.| 752, 374 |_2.50.:- 2,106,647 | 16,853,176 || 1915..| 924,605 | 63,005 | 2,651,899 | 21,215, 192 
fife) 790-241. ss. 2’ 212/675 | 17,701,400 || 1916. .| 1,071,969 | 2537077 | 33547590 | 26,036) 720 
tote 978, 257 6,971 | 2,746,090 | 21,968, 720 |} 1917-- 767, 019 323,703 | 2,471,456 | 19, 770, 848 
1913...| 824573 | 5,241 | 27314, 045 | 18,512’ 360 || 1918. -| 1,262,130 |1, 175,064 | 4, 709, 028 | 37,672) 224 
1914.._| 1,043,928 | 1897583 | 37112,591 | 24’ 900/728 || 1919..| 628312 |.....2.... 1, 759,274 | 1420747192 
1 These figures are taken from ‘‘Imports for consumption ”’ in Commerceand Navigation of the United 
- States,and represent the bushel as containing 50 pounds of beans, yielding 45 per cent of oil, or 22.5 pounds, 
which is equivalent to about 2.8 gallons of oil. 
From November, 1918, to June, 1919, inclusive, the Government 
plant at Gainesville, Fla., was crushing American-grown castor 
beans. It crushed 211,000 bushels (of 46 pounds), yielding 463,000 
gallons of oil, or 3,730,000 pounds. This quantity, oi course, is to 
be added to that produced by the regular castor-bean crushing 
industry from imported beans, nenonhen above, to show the total 
consumption and stocks for the fiscal year 1918-19. In the winter 
of 1917-18 about 6,000 bushels of imported castor beans were used 
for planting. 
The rate of duty on castor beans from August 5, 1909, to October 
4.1913, was 25 cents per bushel; subsequent to that date it was 15 
cents. The duty on the oil for corresponding dates was 35 and 12 
cents per gallon. 
In 1912, 88 per cent of the beans imported entered at New York, 
8 per at at Grand Rapids, and 4-per cent at Boston. Table Vv 
