26 BULLETIX 296, U. S. DEPABTMEXT OF AGRICITLIUBE. 
nearly two-thirds of a century was 3.287,804.238 bushels, of which 
1.655.211,135 bushels went to the United Kingdom. In recent times 
the percentage of our exports in corn taken by the United Kingdom 
has been diminishing, due partly to the increasing competition of 
other countries in supplying the world's demand for maize and partly 
to our own increasing use for the corn or produce. Among other 
countries that haye been quite regular purchasers of American corn 
may be mentioned Germany, British North America, the Nether- 
lands, Denmark, and Belgium. 
In general, our imports of corn haye been insignificant in amount, 
but within the last few years increasing quantities haye been im- 
ported into the United States from Argentina. During the fiscal 
year 1914 we imported 12,367,000 bushels, of which 11,621,000 bushels 
were from Argentina. During 1901-1913 the yearly imports of corn 
ranged from 5.169 to 903,062 bushels. 
Rice. — Beginning with 1713, the exports of rice from the British 
colonies in North America amounted to more than 3 million pounds, 
and increased to 76,511,000 pounds in 1771, from which an annual 
decrease is shown to 12,112,000 pounds in 1783, increasing to 50 
million pounds in 1789. The exports continued to increase to 105 
million pounds in 1828, and 127,789,800 pounds in 1836, then a de- 
crease to 136,143 pounds is shown in 1883, after which a yearly in- 
crease is shown to 163,091,000 pounds in 1914. 
The imports office were nearly 57 million pounds in 1S62, which 
increased 500 per cent in 1914, the imports being 290 million pounds. 
During the last three years practically all of the " uncleaned " rice 
has been supplied by Japan. China supplied more than half of the 
" cleaned " rice during 1912-1913, the imports being 13 and 22 million 
pounds, respectiyeiy. In 1914 more than half of our imports of cleaned 
rice came by way of the Netherlands, the imports from that country 
being 48 million pounds, while the imports from China were 30 mil- 
lion pounds. The rice flour, meal, and broken rice imported in 1885 
were 38 million pounds, which increased to 140 million pounds in 
1914. Germany consigned about 90 per cent of this article 20 years 
ago. but decreased to a little less than one-half during the last fiye 
years, 1910-1914. During this latter period about one-fourth came 
from the Netherlands, and large quantities also came from Austria- 
Hungary, the United Kingdom, China, Hongkong, and Siam. 
Barley. — Exports of this grain haye shown wide fluctuations, the 
exports being. 66,482 bushels in 1864, 9,810 bushels in 1868, nearly 4 
million bushels in 1878, 200,000 bushels in 1882, 5 million bushels in 
1894. 20 million bushels in 1897, 24 million bushels in 1900, U million 
bushels in 1912, 18 million bushels in 1913. and nearly 7 million 
bushels in 1914. The United Kingdom has been the destination for 
about 75 per cent of our barley during the last 20 years. 
