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Ground-nuts   . . 
Castor  
Colza  
Copra  
Cotton  
Linseed   
Mowra  {Basin)  
Niger  , 
Palm-nuts   ..... 
Poppy  seed   .... 
Ravisons  (Mustard)  ...... 
Sesame   
Other  seeds  and  oleaginous  fruits 
Oil  Seeds.  Oil  Made 
785,28o 
214,090 
43,830 
71,650 
235,950 
75,400 
52,000 
6,850 
300,000 
46,050 
12,780 
878,630 
47,050 
2,867,660 
265,000 
88,000 
5,700 
109,000 
46,800 
20,500 
I9>300 
2,050 
132,000 
17,000 
600 
396,000 
1,121,400 
1893- 
Oil  Seeds. 
1,225,290 
12,820 
54,IOO 
466,340 
182,170 
108,430 
120,390 
19,940 
188,060 
36,890 
12,000 
1,188,460 
208,900 
1,803,790 
The  stock  of  oil  seeds  on  hand  at  the  end  of  the 
year  1892  was   35,000  metrical  quintals' 
Received  in  1893   3,803,790 
Deducting  the  stock  in  hand  at  the  close  of  1893, 
The  mills  at  Marseilles  crushed 
3,838,790 
40,000 
3,798,79o 
3,260,000 
538,270 
Being  an  excess  over  1892  of  
These  oil  seeds  produced  ,   .   151,195,000  kilogrammes  of  oil. 
To  which  has  to  be  added   12,698,000 
imported  from  various  countries,  which  
represents  a  total  of   .■   163,893,000         "  " 
The  average  imports  of  oil  at  Marseilles,  in  each  of  the  five  years 
ending  1893,  was  27,643,400  kilogrammes,  and  the  average  annual 
exports  in  the  same  period  was  38,923,200  kilogrammes  (of  21  pounds) 
per  annum. 
The  progress  of  the  trade  in  oil  seeds  and  oil  at  the  port  of  Mar- 
seilles has  been  enormous  in  the  last  twenty-five  years,  and  has 
advanced  from  184,986  tons  of  all  kinds  in  1870,  to  380,279  tons  in 
1893,  of  20  cwt. 
The  fixed  or  expressed  oils  imported  into  the  United  States  were, 
in  1890,  20,323,677  pounds  free,  valued  at  $1,437,216,  and  of  other 
oils,  dutiable,  687,797  gallons,  value,  $417,388.  In  1894,  olive  oil 
was  imported  to  the  extent  of  21,173  gallons,  value,  $23,262,  and 
