FOREIGX TRADE IN FABM AXD FOREST PRODUCTS. 23 
For the five Years ending with 1909 the average imports were 
$3,855,375. of which 58.5 per cent came from the United Kingdom, 
For the five years ending with 1914 the average imports were 
$6,224,799, of which 53.9 per cent came from the United Kingdom. 
During 1907 and subsequently the imports of feathers, crude, from 
British South Africa have been valued at more than 1 million dollars 
annually, amounting to nearly 2^ million dollars in 1913. Ostrich 
feathers were not separately stated in the import returns until 1912, 
and since that time 77.2 per cent of the imports of feathers have 
been ostrich. During the last three years 59.2 per cent of the ostrich 
feathers came through ports of the United Kingdom and 38.2 per 
cent from British South Africa. 
GLUE AXD GELATIN. 
Beginning with 1898, and subsequently, the exports of glue have 
averaged more than 2 million pounds annually, while the imports 
for the same period ranged from a little over 1 million pounds to 
nearly 9 million pounds, except in 1914, when the imports amounted 
to more than 22.700,000 pounds. Since 1895 more than half of the 
glue exported was consigned to three countries, the United Kingdom, 
Canada, and Germany, and the same countries, including France, 
supplied more than three-fourths of the glue imported during the 
same period. 
Imports of gelatin were separately shown in our foreign commerce 
in 1909. Since that time the average annual imports have been 
1.367.635 pounds, of which 53.6 per cent came from Germany. Other 
countries supplying this product in large quantities were Austria- 
Hungary, France, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. 
COTTON. 
The exports of cotton in 1S51 amounted to 927 million pounds, 
which was increased the following year to more than 1 billion pounds, 
and doubled in 1881. amounting to more than 2 billion pounds; dou- 
bled again in 1905, amounting to more than 1 billion poimds; and 
amounted to 4,761 million pounds in 1911. As an exporting port for 
cotton, Galveston exceeded all other ports. That port handled 1,780 
million pounds, or 37.1- per cent of all cotton exported, in 1911. Xew 
Orleans ranked second, handling 895 million pounds ; and Savannah 
third, amounting to 766 million pounds. This product has been ex- 
ported chiefly to three countries, the United Kingdom, Germany, and 
France. The United Kingdom has received approximately one-third 
of our cotton during the last 20 years, the exports to that country be- 
ing 1.777 million pounds in 1895 and 1.791 million pounds in 1911. 
The exports to Germany in 1895 were 752 million pounds, increasing' 
