The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-23

three times as much wool as she i'm
ports from the United States. The
net deficiency of Europe is
7SO,OOO,OOO pounds, slightly more
than Is produced there. The United
States produces four-fifths of the wool
manufactured here. The aim of the
wool growers of this country is to sup
ply the home manufacture if possible
and never to import raw wool. If
there ever shall be a surplus it will
bring more money to the wool grown
and sent abroad in the manufactured
form. The United states imports net
50 .OOO, 600 pounds OF wool every year.
Inc statement shows that Europe
produces about as much tobacco as the
United States SOC, 0O0, 900 pounds an
nually and could easily produce all she
needs, but the American tobacco is
desired for two reas0ns-it is cheap
and very desirable for fortifying the
European product--sO the United
States furnishes 242. 900 900 pounds of
the annual deficiency of 324, oOO. 600
pounds.
In conclusion the statistician says
one-tenth of our agricultural product
is exported. No other nation exports
SO large proportion, yet the articles
shipped abroad are few, they are cot
ton, tobacco, meats, breadstuffs and
cheese. All other articles together are
but three per cent of the exports. En-
largement of the surplus must inevita-
bly, reduce the price both at home and
abroad.
What other product can be export
1t is folly to look to foreign nations
for a market of any of the bulky
products of agriculture which are com
mon to the agriculture of every nation.
The more concentrate products may be
profitably exported. More cheese could
be sold If its reputation for quality
should be kept up and there was more
disposition to cater to fastidious or pc
culiar foreign tastes. Butter exports
could be enlarged if they were of better
quality. Evaporated or preserved fruits,
oranges of the southern or Pacific
coasts, wines from California, and
maize are profitable market as surplus
stocks as 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 enquiry, sugar is
the first to be suggested. Our wheat
and flour sold will scarcely pay for the
sugar bought in the present and imme-
date future and the home demand
would not be uncertain but peremptory
and insatiate. Flax and hemp should
be more extensively grown, displacing
foreign fibres costing millions of money
and furnishing material for bag
ging Of cotton. Wool and
hoops. other fibres of subtropical
regions should be produced along the
gulf coast. The imported fibres with
their manufacture altogether amount
in value more than two-thirds as much
as the munifecent and boosted costing
expectation of the United States
There is an Importation of fruits of the
value of $40, OO0, 900. half of which at
least should be produced in this
country.
The subject is too large for treat
ment in few paragraphs or pages, but
these suggestions mark the lines on
which production in this country
should be extended with reference
first to the wants of a population grow
ing beyond all foreign precedent, and
next to incidental expectation, mainly
of extended or manufactured products
as source of additional revenue and
as a regular upholder of home
prices.