The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-08-20
Our Exports and Imports.

In 1877 II was 33,iii,l19. In the
year first named the total value of
imports of live cattle, sheep and
swine was II, 390,0 of dead meats
and provisions, ei,3i3,592. In 1877
il rose to E6.0l2, 1854 for live stock,
and 0.l4i,0l3 for dead meats and
provisions. Thus the imports of
that nation, of animals alive and
dead, has increased from total of
Go. 1888 $50 per year TO ESQ, 156,5T per
year. an increase for the year 1877,
over 1858 Of about 1852. IL, 245, or a
total import of live and dead meats
for 1877 of about $1S0,7S2, 1856. The
import of wheat, other grain and
-four. has steadily increased from
G2O. 164. 81 in 1858 to E63, 536. 322 in
1877, making u total import for 1877
of live and dead animals, and animal
products, grain and flour of f99,692,-
500. This would give nearly $50 as
paid by each inhdbitant of the
kingdom for imported provisions last
year.
If England now imports nearly
in view of the increasing cX-
ports of these commodities from
the United States, no means should
be left untricd to increase the facili-
tics for cheap transportation thence.
The Prairie Farmer has kept its
readers advised from week TO week
of the movements of grain and other
agricultural products TO the seaboard
and across the ocean. Our export
trade is constantly increasing. and
our imports rs constantly decreasing
This is II conclusive evidence of the
measure of wealth of country. III
we sell more than we buy, the differ
cncc may be placed TO our credit rs
so much added to the permanent
wealth of the country. According
to statistics from the treasury de-
partmcnt nj Washington, during the
year terminating June 30,lS7S, the
United States exported produce and
manufactured goods of the value of
6SO, $3.50. 79S, and this exclusive of the
value of foreign products exported.
This would have swclled the amount
to 1864 1874. 200. This shows an in
crease of exports over the previous
wear of $9l .013.573 of domestic pro-
duets, and an increase of 81 ,39j,
l06 of foreign products, over
the previous year. The total
exports for the last year, including
specie. were S72S,617, 1925. The i'm
ports during the same period were
1896, S72 $40, an excess of exports
ovcl imports of 26l,744,579. As
compared with 1877, the exports cN-
ceedcd the imports by S69.979, 800.
and this imports even less by S25, Pa
69i than in 1877.
One thing that operates seriously
against this country j. that our car
rying trade on the ocean has never
been recovered since the war. We
are slowly increasing merchant ton
mage. il is true. but very slowly.
There would seem to be no reason
why our carrying trade should not
keep pace with our exports. In the
last five years the freight earnings of
our merchant marine are placed at
So, S74 ,4j7. Ii is calculated that the
freight earnings are 6per cent. of
freight earnings for The InSt> ! Ear a.
S1j,000,000. the amount of produc-
tions, both import and export, car
ricd by our own tonnage would be
$3.50, 100000. The whole amount of
export and import for the year was
81 1871 1886, 1888. So that our tonnage
carried something less than onc-ffth
of what we ourselves bought and
sold; not a consolatory showing for
what should be the greatest mara
time nation on earth.
Last wear the United States shipp-
ed TO England 1917 cattle, 23,395
sheep and $40 swine. The total
number received in Great Britain
from all sources were 100000 head,
including sheep and swine. This
wear. 10000 head are reported TO
have been shipped from the Atlantic
ports. From February to Augusta.
This shows the immense impetus
given to this trade. The hog pro-
duets exported last year reached
Sll0,OO0,000. Raising and packing
pork is now the third industry in
the United States. Our butter and
cheese exports for the wear ending
June 80, 1872, were 7,7l6,2 pounds
of the former and &c. POI, $50 pounds
of the latter, valued at $9,251, $50.
For the year ending June 80, 1877,
p. 527.2i2 pounds of butter and 107,-
6l0.7I2 pounds of cheese were cX-
ported, valued nj $l7,l56, 23l, an in
crease of nearly 1870 per cent. in but
ten and 60 per cent. cheese. OF these
commodities Great Britain received
20 per cent. of the butter and 81 per
cent. of the cheese exported.
Our great export commodities are
cotton. corn, Wheat, cattle and their
products, hog products, butter and
cheese, tobacco, grass and seeds.
These must be increasing commodi-
ties with the exception of cotton UNI
til we largely increase our various
manufacturing facilities at home.
Last year we had over l,000,000,000
bushels of eNportablc grain. Ii is
estimated that this season we shall
have 100000 bushels for export.
England is reported TO have used
90. So. 1872 pounds of export butter,
G6. 955.6l6 pounds of cheese, aud 81
OOO, 900 worth of eggs in the first six
months of 1873. Also II 1869, 1888
pounds of hops. OF the Sll5,000,0OO
worth of grain and flour imported
for the wear ending June 80, 1873, the
United States furnished nearly &c
per cent. of the whole. England
also imported i0,j0O,O00 bushels of
Indian corn, nearly all of which came
from the West. During the first six
months of the present wear England
also imported 33,22S,3ii pounds OF
fresh beef, 1901 1872 pounds of salt
beet, 2l7,SlS,6OS pounds of bacon,