UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
H BULLETIN No. 296 
Contribution from the Bureau of Crop Estimates 
LEON M. ESTABROOK, Chief 
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Washington, D. C. 
October 25, 1915 
OUR FOREIGN TRADE IN FARM AND FOREST PRODUCTS. 
Prepared under the direction of Perry Elliott, Division of Crop Records. 
CONTENTS. 
Summary 1 
Live animals 5 
Dairy products 7 
Packing-house products 9 
Other animal products, 18 
Cotton 23 
Grain and grain products 24 
Sugar 29 
Coffee and coffee substitutes 30 
Cocoa and chocolate 31 
I Tea 31 
! Tobacco 32 
Oil cake and vegetable oils 33 
! Nuts 35 
Page. 
Alcoholic liquors 36 
Seeds 38 
Spices 39 
Vegetables 40 
Fruits 41 
Vegetable fibers 44 
Minor agricultural products 45 
Logs, lumber, and timber 46 
Naval stores 47 
Gums 47 
Minor forest products 48 
Reexports 49 
Transportation 50 
Publications relating to exports and imports . 50 
SUMMARY. 
The foreign trade of the United States has increased more than 
tenfold during the last 64 years, the products interchanged with 
foreign countries being valued at 400 million dollars in 1851 and 
4,259 million dollars in 1914. The exports of domestic merchandise 
were valued at 179 million dollars in 1851, of which 147 million 
dollars, or 82.1 per cent, were agricultural products; the exports of 
domestic merchandise increased to 2,330 million dollars in 1914, of 
which the agricultural value was 1,114 million dollars, or 47.8 per 
cent. 
The imports of merchandise in 1851 were 211 million dollars, of 
which 61 million dollars, or 28.7 per cent, were agricultural products ; 
this trade increased to a grand total of 1,894 million dollars in 
1914, of which the agricultural portion was 924 million dollars, or 
Note. — This bulletin is a summary of the leading features of the foreign trade of the 
United States in farm and forest products. It is intended for general circulation. 
4251°— Bull. 296—15 1 
