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exceeds by more than ten million 
dollars the value imported in 1909, 
is nearly 18 million dollars above the 
record of 1901, and is by far larger 
than that of any other year. Dur- 
ing the ten years, 1901 to 1910, in- 
elusive, a total of 13 million dollars, 
or an average annual importation of 
$1,300,000 is shown, as’ against 
$20,000,000 for the single year 1911 
now drawing to a close. 
Flaxseed furnishes the bulk of the 
28 million dollars’ worth of seeds of 
various kinds imported during the 
year. The other leading classes in- 
clude sugar beet, clover, and castor 
beans. Of these, the imports o 
clover seed during the year will be 
about 3 million dollars, and those 
of sugar beet and castor seed, each 
about $700,000. The remaining 3% 
million dollars’ worth of seeds im- 
ported includes grass, mustard, beet, 
cabbage, poppy, and flower seeds, 
also a large number of seeds valued 
by reason of the volatile oils and 
perfumes contained, such as anise, 
caraway, coriander, and fennel. 
The price of imported flaxseed 
tends to increase from year to year. 
In 1897 the average price per bushel 
was $1.03; in 1901, $1.27; im 1903, 
$1.50; in 1909, $1.40; in 1910, $1.70; 
and in 1911, $2.04, for the high ree- 
ord importation of 814 million bush- 
els in the ten months ending with 
April. 
Argentina is the chief source of 
the flaxseed imported into the 
United States, about 60 per cent of 
the imports during 1910 having 
been from that country, compared 
with about 25 per cent from Canada 
and about 4 per cent each from the 
British East Indies and _ Belgium. 
Nearly all the sugar beet seed im- 
ported is from Germany, while elo- 
ver seed is imported chiefly from 
Germany, Canada and France. 
The very large increase in impor- 
tations of flaxseed during 1911 is 
due to the partial failure of the crop 
last year. The flaxseed crop of the 
United States is, according to fig- 
ures of the Bureau of Statistics 
of the Department of Agriculture, 
chiefly produced in Minnesota and 
North and South Dakota. The crop 
in North Dakota last year was to a 
large extent a failure, reducing the 
domestic production by nearly one- 
half, and the amount available for 
market purposes, aside from _ seed, 
fully one-half, henee the large im- 
portations in the current year from 
foreign countries. 
very man should keep a fair- 
sized cemetery in which to bury the 
faults of his friends. 
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Telephone 97 
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Telephone Salem 820 287 Essex Street, 
SALEM, MASS. 
