Show r f feehs seeds F from rom foreign lands ands A high record importation of t 20 dollars worth of flaxseed lu in tho iho fiscal year 1911 is indi eacel by the records of tile the of statistics department mid and labor now completed tot tor tho the ten tell nintha ninths thi ending with april 1911 during that period t aliu hu illi imports ports of or 01 11 linseed I 1 P 11 aggregated 91 eight nud and olic f four 0 ll 11 tit million bus liels compared with it ft little over three million bushels last year mid and bushels in 11 the corresponding 0 period of 1909 1009 the growth in v value is oven even greater the th cei tei months figures odthe of the current fiscal year yeal being si sixteen tecil and three fourth nii million ili ou dol dollars against live five million in ill 1910 fill aal 1 but bili in ili 1909 tho the estimated importation of twenty million dot dol inns worth of flaxseed in ili the fiscal year which ends with tile the present Ill month olith exceeds by more thai tell tel million dollars dollari tit alie value imported in ili 1909 is nearly eigil eighteen teen minion million I 1 above tile record 0 of f 1901 aud and is by far larger than that of f any it ay iy other year during tile ilic ten tell yea years M 1901 to 1910 inclusive a 1 total of thirteen millia 1 dollars or an average annual of is shown i alra against for the single year yar 1911 19 now drawing to a close yi axed 1 l fill furnished lishem the bulk of tile the ON twenty belity eight lilt million illion dollars worth of seeds of various iam la imported during tile year the year the other leading classes in n chide cando sugar beets clover and castor beans of these the imports of clover s seed eed during the alm year will be about three million dollars and those of sugar beet and castor seed each cach about tile remaining three and three fourths iii million dollars worth of seeds imported includes grass mustard beet cabbage pop py and ald flo flower w er seeds also a large number of seeds valued by reason of the volatile oils and ana perA perfumes iines contained such as anise caraway coriander and fc ferbet I 1 tho the price of imported flaxseed flaxseed vendia to io from year to 0 year rn in 1897 abo tho abc average edg 0 p rl ceper in 1897 the average averige pried price per bushel was in 1901 in 1 1903 in 1909 in in 1910 to Osani in i fo iho the high higl record importation r tation of eight anil and a 0 fourth million bushels in the tu ten dadin with april argentina is the chief source fit the flaxseed imported into tai tl united states about sixty of the imports during 1910 havin having been from that country compared with about twenty five per cent front froin canada and about fiur P per cent each from the british east lidies ladies ma belgium nearly ill all tile the sugar beet seed illi porte I 1 ftp from germany canada ano am binnee jinnee t ajo large sa increase ill in ini po stations of flaxseed aurim dur ing 1011 1911 is due to the partial fail failure tire of tho the crop last year the flaxseed crop of the united states is according to figures of the bureau of statistics of the department of agriculture chiefly produced in minnesota and north N dakota tile the crop iii hi north dakota last year was to a a large extent a failure tile the domestic production by nearly one half liala and the amount avails ble for market purposes aside front from seed fully one half hence the alie large importations in ili the current year from foreign countries tile the shortage in the don doklestic lestic crop crop of flaxseed and presumably in the production of linseed 0 oil il is reflected in the large imports import fi of oil of that character during the current fiscal year during the 9 months ending with march 1911 tile the imports for consumption of lin seed oil aggregated 5 anili ga ions valued at corn con pared with gallons va valeet balliel lliel at in tile the entire ciscil fiscal 1 year 1910 gild and but gallon valued fit at in iii the fiscal year fir 1 1909 1 I 1 |