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ted States, considerable quantities 
were exported. The total imports 
of potatoes into the United States 
in the last ten years aggre- 
gated 22,845,634 bushels, valued at 
$10,985,770, or about 48 cents per 
bushel, this valuation being based 
upon the wholesale market price in 
the countries from which imported 
and does not, therefore, include the 
cost of transportation or duties 
paid, the rate of duty being 25 cents 
per bushel of 60 pounds both under 
the present law and its immediate 
predecessor. The exports of pota- 
toes from the United States during 
the same decade amounted to 
10,900,566 bushels, valued at $8,- 
413,675, an average of 77 cents per 
bushel. 
Potatoes imported into the Uni- 
ted States come chiefly from Can- 
ada, Mexico and Bermuda in Amer- 
ica, and Seotland, England, Ireland, 
Germany, and France in Europe, 
while in recent years small quanti- 
ties have also been brought from 
China, Australia, and the Canary 
Islands. The potatoes exported go 
chiefly to the West Indies, Central 
America and Canada, the largest 
quantities usually to Cuba, Can- 
ada, and Panama and lesser quan- 
tities to other Central American 
States and the West Indian Islands. 
Small quantities have also been sent 
in recent years to China, Hong- 
kong, British Guiana, the Philip- 
‘pine Islands, French Oceania, and 
certain of the South American 
countries, but- practically none _ to 
Europe which, although a large 
consumer of potatoes, is also a large 
producer. 
The world’s potato crop, so far as 
it can be measured statistically, 
runs between 5 and 6_ billion 
bushels per annum, but these fig- 
ures do not include the production 
of China, North Africa, and most of 
South America, the original home 
of the potato, which was found 
under cultivation in South America 
by the Spanish discoverers and 
transplanted to Spain and thence to 
other parts of Europe. Germany is 
by far the largest single producer 
of potatoes, her total crop for 1909, 
the latest available figures, being 
1,716 million bushels, against 1,173 
million in European Russia, 613 
million in France, 480 million in 
Austria, 184 million in Hungary, 
137 million in Great Britain, 120 
million in Ireland, 99 million in 
Canada, and 377 million in the 
United States. 
New York is the largest potato- 
producing State in the United 
States, her product in 1910 being 
441% million bushels, against 35 
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million in Michigan, 28 million in 
Maine, 28 million in Pennsylvania, 
25 million in Wisconsin, 15 million 
in Ohio, 12 2-3 million in Illinois, 
1214 million in Iowa, and about 10 
million bushels each in Minnesota 
and New Jersey, while practically 
all the remaining States are repre- 
sented with totals ranging from one 
million to 8 million bushels each. 
The largest importation of pota- 
toes during the past decade occured 
in 1909, being 8 1-3 million bushels; 
the largest exports of the decade 
oceured in 1911, being 2 1-3 million 
bushels. 
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