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BULLETIN 1401, XT. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 
shelled and 11,907,052 pounds were unshelled. A complete tabula- 
tion of imports and exports of peanuts and peanut oil for the fiscal 
years 1913 through 1924 begins on page 88. The sharp variation in 
peanut imports from year to year is shown graphically in Figure 39. 
ASIATIC IMPORTS 
The increasing demand for shelled peanuts of large sizes, which was 
not met by American growers as it developed, was responsible for 
part of the activity in imported goods, and shelled peanuts have con- 
stituted the greater part of the imports during recent years. The 
high prices for peanuts prevailing in this country during and following 
the recent war, together with the high prices and exceptional demand 
for vegetable oils at that time, offered strong inducements both to 
the importers on this side of the Pacific and to the exporters in the 
Orient to ship peanuts and peanut oil to the United States. 
Asiatic exports are of the Virginia type. The United States 
Department of Agriculture, in figuring domestic peanut production, 
has considered that a bushel of unshelled Virginias, weighing 22 
NET IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF PEANUTS 
FISCAL YEARS ENDING JUNE 30. 1913-1924. 
MILLIONS OF POUNDS 
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into the war 
pounds, would shell out 14% pounds, or 66% per cent of the unshelled 
weight. The meats in Spanish-type peanuts represent a slightly 
larger percentage of the unshelled weight. Using that basis of com- 
parison for all imports, however, and converting all shelled figures 
to unshelled equivalents, our total net imports during the fiscal year 
ended June 30, 1920, the year of heaviest receipts, was equivalent 
to 191,632,792 pounds of peanuts in the shell, a figure only a few 
million pounds in excess of that which would have been obtained if 
the non- Virginia type peanuts from Spain, Java, and other countries 
