. Coffee; its history and also its remarkable growth in the world of commerce. Coffee. [from old catalog]. in the fiscal year of 1892, the aggregate being a little over 518,000,000 pounds, Brazil furnishing about 453,000,000 pounds, Venezuela about 53,000,000 pounds and Columbia I nearly 12,000,000 pounds. The exports from the latter country to the United States were greatest in the last fiscal year, 19,228,311 pounds being the amount. The largest ship- ments from Venezuela during any one fiscal year were in 1889, aggregating 63,114,520 pounds, and the tide of Brazil / coffee flowing to this c
. Coffee; its history and also its remarkable growth in the world of commerce. Coffee. [from old catalog]. in the fiscal year of 1892, the aggregate being a little over 518,000,000 pounds, Brazil furnishing about 453,000,000 pounds, Venezuela about 53,000,000 pounds and Columbia I nearly 12,000,000 pounds. The exports from the latter country to the United States were greatest in the last fiscal year, 19,228,311 pounds being the amount. The largest ship- ments from Venezuela during any one fiscal year were in 1889, aggregating 63,114,520 pounds, and the tide of Brazil / coffee flowing to this country reached its flood in 1892, the high water mark being over 453,000,000 pounds, which is only about 14,000,000 pounds less than the total imports from South America during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896. The heaviest imports of coffee from North and Central America were in 1895, being then 94,188,722 pounds. Cen- tral America sent her largest contribution of 58,895,347 pounds in that year, and Mexico's greatest exports of coffee to the United States (38, pounds) were in 1893. Exports of coffee from the West Indies to the United States have diminished very greatly within the past sixteen years. In 1881 38,639,982 pounds, of which Hayti furnished over 31,000,000 pounds, were shipped, and there has been an almost steady decline to 1896, when 10,502,038 pounds were brought in. Imports from Cuba have fallen off from 1,359- 273 pounds in 1866, the highest amount for any one year, to only 5,669 pounds in 1896, and shipments from Puerto Rico> which aggregated nearly 6,500,000 pounds in 1874. decreased to 159,649 pounds in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Thomson & Taylor spice co. , Chicago. [from old catalog]. Chicago, Thomson & Taylor spice company
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