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-Volume 9 January 20, 1911. Number 3 
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WORLD-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS 
TO ‘THE COMFORTS OF AMERI- 
CAN HOMES. 
The contributions which people of 
other parts of the world are making 
to the comforts and requirements of 
homes in the United States are quite 
as interesting as the subject of last 
week’s discussion, regarding the ar- 
ticles which producers in the United 
States had contributed to the com- 
forts of homes in other parts of the 
world. Our tea, out coffee, our 
corks, our:bananas, our camphor, our 
licorice, our pepper, nutmegs and 
other spices, our silk, some of our 
cotton, a considerable part of our 
wool and, strange as it may appear, 
some part of the onions, potatoes, 
and cheese consumed in the United 
States are brought from other coun- 
tries and in many cases from the op- 
posite side of the globe and out of 
the way parts of the world. 
Few people would suppose, for ex- 
ample, that this great agricultural 
country imports onions, or potatoes, 
or clover seed, or honey; yet the 
value of onions imported in 1907 and 
1908 was nearly a million dollars in 
each year, and they came from 
Kgypt, Australia, Japan, the Canary 
Islands, Uruguay, Cuba, the British 
W. Indies, Bermuda, Canada, Mexico 
and Spain. Of potatoes more than 
3 1-2 million dollars’ worth were im- 
ported in 1909, the largest contri- 
buting country being Scotland with 
over 1 millon dollars’ worth, Ire- 
land and Great Britain, each three 
quarters of a million dollars’ worth, 
and the remainder largely from Eu- 
ropean countries and, in smaller 
quantities, from the British West 
Indies, Australia, and even China 
and Japan. Pepper, of course, is 
not produced in the United States 
and it is not surprising, therefore, 
that 2 million dollars’ worth is im- 
ported annually, much of it from the 
Dutch E. Indies, although largely ac- 
credited to the Straits Settlements, 
the southernmost point of eastern 
Asia, to which this merchandice is 
transhipped from the East Indian Is- 
lands, known a century ago as the 
‘‘Spice Islands ;’’ while smaller quan- 
tities come direct from Netherlands, 
the country which has for so, many 
years administered the government 
of those islands and_ controlled 
largely their lines of production. 
Nutmegs, of which the importations 
amount to a quarter million dollars 
a year, are also drawn chiefly from 
the ‘‘Spice Islands’’, or the Dutch 
East Indies. 
One would scarcely expect that 
such an agricultural country as the 
United States would find it neces- 
sary to import clover seed, but the 
quantity imported runs as high as 
20 million pounds a year, chiefly 
from Germany and in smaller quan- 
tities from France, Italy, and Scot- 
land. Sausage easings, which we 
would scarcely expect to see import- 
ed into a country slaughtering food 
animals in such large numbers, are 
imported to the value of from 2 to 
3 million dollars a year, by far the 
largest contributor being England, 
from which the importations in 1909 
were over 1 1-2 million dollars, the 
remainder being from widely scat- 
tered countries, from Germany, Tur- 
G. E. WILLMONTON ... 
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
key in Europe, China, Australia, and 
Turkey in Asia. Natural gas is an- 
other article which we would scaree- 
ly expect to see imported, yet the im- 
portations run as high as $50,000 per 
annum, being piped across the river 
from Canada at or near Niagara 
Falls. 
Of the more commonly used arti- 
cles of which other parts of the 
world are the chief source, sugar is 
the largest in value, its importations 
ranging about 100 million dollars a 
year from foreign countries and 70 
million dollars a year from our own 
island possessions, Hawaii, Porto Ri- 
co, and ‘the Philippines. 
of that coming from foreign coun- 
tries is drawn from Cuba, which sup- 
plied us last fiscal year with 346 mil- 
lion pounds valued at 9314 million 
dollars. Of coffee, the importations 
range from 60 to 75 million dollars 
a year and in exceptional years as 
high as 100 million. The bulk of this 
comes from Brazil, though a con- 
siderable portion comes from Java, 
Mexico, Central America, and the 
northern section of South America, 
and a comparatively small quantity 
from Africa. The tea importations, 
which amount to from 12 to 18 mil- 
lion dollars a year, come chiefly 
from Japan, China, and India, much 
of the latter, howey er, reaching the 
United States by w ay of England. 
One would scarcely expect to see 
raw cotton imported into the United 
States in view of the fact that she 
produces three fourths of the eottcn 
of the world, but the value of cotton 
imports run as high as $20, 000,000 
a year, the bulk of it coming from 
Hegypt, though Mexico and Peru con- 
tribute considerable quantities, even 
India, China, the Dutch Hast Indies 
and the British West Indies make 
small contributions. 
All of the raw silk used in the 
United States in manufacturing the 
150 million dollars’ worth of silk 
coods turned out annually by our 
a 
factories is brought from other parts 
ot the world, chiefly from Japan 
and China, though in smaller quanti- 
fies from Italy and France. To the 
112 million dollars’ worth of hides 
and skins imported last year, nearly 
every grand division contributed. 
Of goat skins alone the imports last 
year amounted to 30 million dollars, 
brought from such distant countries 
as India, China. the Straits Settte- 
ments, Persia, Moroceo, the Belgian 
Kongo, and Madagascar. : 
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