In 1000 parts. _Green Tea_ _Black Tea_ _Coffee_ _Matte_ Essential oil 7.90 6.00 0.41 0.01 Chlorophyll 22.20 18.14 13.66 62.00 Resin 22.20 36.40 13.66 20.69 Tannin 178.00 128.80 16.39 12.28 Theine or caffeine 4.30 4.60 2.66 2.50 Fibre & cellulose 175.80 283.20 174.83 180.00 Ash 85.60 54.40 25.61 38.10 Extract and colouring matter 464.00 390.00 270.67 238.83 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 960.00 921.54 517.89 554.41 Out of her total exports in 1915 of nearly seventy-six thousand tons, Brazil sent over fifty-eight thousand to Argentina, fourteen thousand to Uruguay, and three thousand tons to Chile. In 1920, seventy thousand tons were sold to the Argentine, eighteen thousand tons to Uruguay, and rather more than three thousand to Chile, where sales of Oriental teas compete with the matte leaf. SUGAR Sugar production is one of the Brazilian industries which have waxed, waned, and with the encouragement of high market prices abroad, has recently again forged ahead. As in the case of cotton, sugar can be and is grown in the great majority of Brazilian states, from the mouth of the Amazon down to the Laguna Mirim, but there are areas, chiefly on the central littoral, where soil and climate are so well suited to sugarcane that production from these regions is able to compete with other world offerings. There was a time when Brazil was the chief source of sugar supplies to Europe, but the industry suffered two great blows—one, the stimulation of cane-growing in the British West Indies, and again the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888, which resulted in many instances in the abandonment of the plantations by a large part of the negro population, crowding into the coast cities to enjoy new liberty.