Show j f TROPICAL IMPORTS More than of the merchandise entering the United States last year was of tropical production says the National Farmer With the growing demand of our manufacturers mam for tropical products i for use in the industries the groat great and antI increasing requirements of our ouri i population popl for foodstuffs produced only in tropical and subtropical climates the dependence of the United States upon the tropics stead I i ily increases j Tropical and subtropical products brought into continental Unit United United ed States in the fiscal year 1910 aggregated million dollars in value against million in 1900 million in 1890 and million in 1880 The share which tropical and subtropical products formed I of the merchandise entering the United I States last year was 40 per percent percent i cent I Nearly million dollars worth of the tropical and subtropical I i i merchandise entering continental United States last year came from I i j our own islands The total value of merchandise brought from those I islands in the fiscal year 1910 was 96 million dollars practically all of I Ii i which was of course of tropical production leaving about million I dollars worth of tropical material drawn from foreign countries In 1900 the value of merchandise drawn from tropical islands under the I United States flag Hag was but 30 million dollars the contributions of our t I own tropical area to the tropical requirements of the United States j I having thus trebled in the last decade I |