St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-06-22
Important Statistics.
SOME FACTS AND FIGURES THAT WILL BIZ
INTERESTING TO Tie ALLIANCES.

SOME FACTS AND FIGURES THAT WILL BE
INTERESTING TO THE ALLIANCES.
The May report of the statistician OF
! the Agricultural Department at WashlnS g.
! ton d. c., contains the result OF an IN
vestigation of the deficiencies OF supplies
| of each European nation, especially IN inc
production of American agricultural pro
ducts that seek foreign markets. AS a
| single years data would be mlsl eadlng,
| the average imports and exports oil ten
| years are taken to obtain the net den-
cheney of the supply. The net European
deficiency is thus shown as to cereals,
fbres, butter, cheese, etc. in connection
with European production. The investl-
cation was made pursuant to resolution
| passed at the meeting of the National
Grange held in Topeka Kan, last fall.
ment prepared by Mr.. Dodge are startling.
practically the only market that Ameri-
cans can have for this cereal, and Europe
imports only IA 600, 900 bushels year,
raising 1900, 900 600 bushels, more than
half of the worlds crop, and twice that of
all America Of the European deficiency,
the United States supplies 81, 100000
bushels In oats and barley there is very
small international trade. Europe i'm
porting net only 49, 10000 bushels of
oats. and the United States exporting g.
500, 600 bushels. Of barley this country
imports 100000 bushels. Rye is the
bread grain of Europe and Central Eu-
rope, and Russia alone produces more
than the United States. Europe imports
not less than 10, 500, 900 bushels, and the
United States exports less than 5000, 600
bushels. The receipts of European cOun-
tries requiring maize do not make half as
much as the product of Illinois or Iowa or
Missouri. Great Britain takes nearly three
fourths of the total, or So 900, 900 bushels,
and that country exports $4,000, 900 bush
els.
Europe imports over one billion pounds
of rice, but none of it comes from the
United States. OF potatoes Europe grows
more than it needs, while the United
States supply their deficiency from Canada
and Germany. Only Great Britain, Bel
GUM and Portugal, of the European ma
lions, do not produce enough butter and to
spare To make up the deficiency &c.
OO0, 900 pounds, the United States exports
"A, 900, 600. 1t requires $40, 900, 900 pounds
of cheese to supply the European def
cheney, of which lis, 000, 900 are furnished
by the United States. Of course, Europe
has to import all it's cotton, the average
annual imports being 2, 636, 900, 600 pounds
The United States sends of this 1885,
900, 900 pounds. Mr. Dodge says ''This
country is only exceeded by Great Britain
in cotton manufacture and should ere
many decades pass, occupy the first place.
There has been a greater relative advance
in the consumption of cotton in continental
countries during the past ten years than
in Great Britain"
Europe gets from South America, Asia.
Africa and Australia two or three times as
much wool as it imports from the United
States. The net deficiency of Europe is
10000, 600 pounds slightly more than is
produced there. The United States pro-
duces four ffths of the wool manufactured
here. The aim of the wool grower of this
country is to supply the home manufac-
turer if possible; never to export raw
wool. If there ever shall be surplus, it
will bring more money to the wool grower
if sent abroad in the manufactured form.
The United States import net sixty mine
million pounds of wool every year. The
statement shows that Europe produces
about as much tobacco as the United States
800 600, 900 pounds annually-and could
easily produce all it needs; but American
tobacco is desired for two reasons it is
cheap and very desirable for fortifving the
European product, so the United States
furnish 242 100000 pounds of the annual
deficiency of 1924 100000 pounds. In con-
clusion Mr.. Dodge says: "About one
tenth of our agricultural products is ex-
ported. No other nation exports so long
proportion, yet the articles shipped abroad
are few. They are cotton, tobacco, meats,
breadstuffs and cheese. All other articles
together are but three per cent of the ex-
ports. The enlargement of the surplus
must inevitably reduce the price both at
home and abroad. More cheese could be
sold if its reputation for quality should be
kept up and there was more disposition to
cater to fastidious or peculiar foreign
tastes. Butter exports could be enlarged
if they were of better quality. Evaporated
or preserved fruits, the oranges of the
Southern or Pacific coasts, wines from
California may seek profitable market as
surplus stocks as a safety valve to the
home market.
"What agricultural products are now
imported that our country and climate are
capable of producing?' In response to
this inquiry, sugar is first to be suggested
Our wheat and -four sold will scarcely pay
for the sugar bought in the present and
immediate future, and the home demand
would not be uncertain, but peremptory
and Unsuitable. Flax and hemp should be
more extensively grown, displacing for
eign fbres costing millions and furnishing
for the bagging of cotton, wool
and hops. Other fbres of sub tropical re-
gions should be produced along the Gulf
coast Imported fbres, with their manu-
facture, altogether amount to a value more
than two thirds as much as the munifcent
and boosted cotton exports of the United
States.