CONTENTS
[INTRODUCTION . . .
Equalising Tendency of Com-
merce. . .
Natural Advantages
Historical Advantages
Tariffs . . .
Key Industries .
Bounties . .
Effects of War .
Consuls . . . .
Chambers of Commerce .
Technical Education ‘
Commercial Education .
Economic Statistics . . .
Subjects for Investigation .
GENERAL FACTS RELATING TO
THE PRODUCTION, DISTRIBU-
TION, AND EXCHANGE OF CoM-
MODITIES . ‘ . .
Climate . A . y .
Tropical Productivity . .
Underground Water Circulation
Underground Temperature
Soil and its Treatment . .
Preservation of the Properties
of the Soil . .
[rrigation . .
Labour . .
Machinery . .
Devastating Agents . . ;
Circumstances Connected with the
Exchange of Commodities :
Transport . . y
Ocean Trade Routes
Aerial Transport
Posts and Telegraphs .
Commercial and Industr’
Towns . . .
Commercial Countries
Language . . .
{instruments of Exchange
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"OMMODITIES :~—
{. Commodities dependent di-
rectly or indirectly on Climate 112
A. Products of the Tem-
perate Zone . . 112
Wheat . . , 112
Maize 193
Dats .
Barley
Rye . ;
Buckwheat.
Pulses
Potato
Onions
Fruits
Wine.
Hops.
Beet .
Flax .
Hemp
Wool. . .
Woollen Manufactures.
Silk . v .
Silk Manufactures ,
Sub-Tropical Products .
Cotton . .
Cotton Manufactures
Tobacco . .
Opium . ‘
Tea . . .
Tropical Products
Coffee .
Cacao .
Rice . .
Millets - . . .
Minor Farinaceous
Products (88
Sugar-cane . 89
The Sugar Industr, 190
Cinchona . . 195
Vegetable Fibres. 196
Fruits . . , 199
Rubber . . . 200
Products of Various
Climates . . 206
Vegetable Oils, Oil-
seeds, Oil-cake . 206
Gums, Resins, and
other Vegetable Ex-
tracts . . 209
Spices, Stimulants, and
Condiments . . 211
Dye-stuffs from the
Vegetable Kingdom. 213
Timber . <0. 214
Furs . 2186
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