The Republican journal., 1912-01-18
Imports and Exports of Pota-
toes, 19Ol-191l.

The recent announcement that large
quantities of potatoes are being import
ed into the United States lends interest
to statement prepared by the Bureau
of Statistics, Department of Commerce
and Labor, showing the imports and ex-
ports of potatoes during term of years.
While the production of potatoes in the
United States is usually sufficient to
meet the requirements of its population,
there have been a number of occasions
following short crops in the United States
on which considerable quantities were
imported. On other occasions, wis n
there were shortages abroad and large
crops in the United States, considerable
quantities were exported. The total i'm
ports of potatoes into the United States in
the last ten years aggregated q, S45, 634
bushels, valued at $40, 985, TO, 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 Is cents per bushel Of
go pounds, both under the present law
and it's immediate predecessor. The ex-
ports of potatoes from the United States
during the same decade amounted to TO-
900, 566 bushels, valued at So. 413,6 75, an
average of II cents per bushel.
Potatoes imported into the United
States come chiefly from Canada, Mexi-
co, and Bermuda in America, and Scot
land, England, Ireland, Germany and
France in Europe, while in recent years
small quantities have also been brought
from China, Australia, and the Canary
Islands. The potatoes exported 20 chief
ly to the West Indies, Central America
and Canada, the largest quantities usual
ly to Cuba, Canada and Panama, and
lesser quantities to other Central Ameri-
can States and the West Indian Islands,
Small quantities have also been sent in
recent years to China, Hongkong, British
Guinea, the Philippine Islands, French
Oceania, and certain of the South Amer
lean countries, but practically none to
Europe, which, although large consum-
err of potatoes, is also large producer.
The worlds potato crop, so far as it
can be measured statistically, runs be-
tween and 6 billion bushels per annum,
but these figures do not include the pro-
duction 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 discoveries and transplanted
to Spain and thence to other parts of
Europe. Germany is by far the largest
single producer of potatoes, her total
crop of 1909, the latest available figures,
being LIS million bushels, against !, 173
million in European Russia, 613 million
in France, 480 million in Austria, 148
million in Hungary, 1877 million in Great
Britain, 100 million in Ireland, SO million
in Canada. and BIT million in the United
States.
New York is the largest potato-pro-
ducing State in the United States, her
product in 1910 being "A 1-2 million bush
els, against IS million in Michigan, %
million in Maine, % million in Pennsyl-
vania, Is million in Wisconsin, Is million
in Ohio, IL 2-3 million in Illinois, IL IA
million in Iowa, and about 10 million
bushels each in Minnesota and New
Jersey, while practically all the remain
ing States are represented with totals
ranging from one million to 8 million
bushels each.
The largest importation of potatoes
during the past decade occurred in 1909,
being 13 million bushels; the largest
exports of the decade occurred in 1911,
being 2 1-3 million bushels.
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