--------------+---------------------------------------------+--------------------------------- | To all countries | To the United States +------------+-----------+---------+----------+-----------+----------+---------- | | | | | | | Year ended | Quantity | Value | Average |Percentage| Quantity | Value |Percentage December 31-- | | |value per| of total | | | of total | | | 1,000 | export | | | copra | | | kilos | | | | --------------+------------+-----------+---------+----------+-----------+----------+---------- | Kilos | Pesos | Pesos | | Kilos | Pesos | | | | | | | | 1913 | 82,219,363 | 19,091,448| 232.20 | 19.98 |10,027,813 | 2,398,166| 12.56 1914 | 87,344,695 | 15,960,540| 182.73 | 16.39 |18,181,371 | 3,212,266| 20.13 1915 |139,092,902 | 22,223,109| 159.77 | 20.65 |21,217,754 | 3,520,090| 15.84 1916 | 72,277,164 | 14,231,941| 196.90 | 10.17 |35,470,438 | 7,079,128| 49.74 1917 | 92,180,326 | 16,654,301| 180.67 | 8.71 |68,253,929 |12,235,902| 73.47 1918 | 55,061,736 | 10,377,029| 188.46 | 3.84 |55,061,641 |10,377,011| 99.99 1919 | 25,094,027 | 8,839,376| 352.25 | 3.91 | 2,313,967 | 818,246| 9.26 1920 | 25,803,044 | 7,433,741| 288.10 | 2.46 | 1,433,311 | 382,409| 5.14 1921 |150,335,314 | 26,146,918| 173.92 | 14.84 |52,928,570 | 8,665,554| 33.14 1922 |173,051,980 | 28,206,146| 162.99 | 14.76 |89,358,118 |14,495,014| 51.00 --------------+------------+-----------+---------+----------+-----------+----------+---------- Until the production of copra in the Philippines is much higher than at present, it will be impossible to keep all the expellers and presses now installed working at full capacity. It is therefore proposed to start a campaign for the planting of quick-growing crops of oil-bearing seeds. Among the plants that were most popular at first was the tañgan-tañgan, or castor bean. This grows very rapidly and yields a very high percentage of castor oil, which was sold at high prices during the war as a lubricant for aeroplanes and other delicate machinery. At the present writing, however, it is generally thought that the mills will do better if they can turn to the production of peanut oil, using imported peanuts to begin with and enlarging the return as the domestic yield increases. Sugar.--Cane-sugar ranks first among the islands' agricultural exports.