The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-21
AMERICAN AGRICULTURE.
Tine Amount Of Products we Ex-
port to Foreign Countries,
FIVE ARTICLES PROMINENT,
Cotton, Meat, Tobacco, Breadstuas
and oheese-A Remarkable State
mcut from the statlstician OF
tho Agricultural Rureau,

WASHINGTON, May 2O,-The May re-
port Of the Agricultural Department
contains the result Of the investigation
Of the deficits Of surplus OF each Euro.
pean nation, especiallyin the production
OF American agricultural products that
seek foreign markets, AS asingle years
data would be misleading, the average
imports and exports Of ten years are
taken to obtain the net deficiency Of sur.
plus,
Some Of the figures given In the state
ment prepared by Mr., Dodge, are start
ling, Asto wheat, he says Europe is
practically the only marke that America
can have Tor the cereal, and she imports
only IA, 900, 5000 bushels year, raising
zoo, ,0000 900 bushels herself, more than
half Of the worlds crop and twice that
Of all America. OF the European def.
cheney the United States supplies 95,-
000, 900 bushels. In oats and barley
there Is q very small international trade,
Europe importing not only 100000
bushels Of oats, and the United States
exporting 100000 bushels. OF bar.
ley this country imports seven and a
half million bushels.
Rye is the great bread grain OF East
efn and Central Europe, and Russia
alone produces more than does the
United States. Europe imports not less
than one and q half million bushels, and
Hku
100000 bushels. Great Britain takes
nearly three-fourths Of the total OF
corn, or 100000 bushels, and this
country exports 6s, ,000, 900 bushels. The
deficiency Of France could be supplied
by Mclean county, Illinois, and Ger
many requires still less. Russia and
Roumania have surplus, and South
ern Europe grows enough for home con.
sumption,
Europe imports over one billion
pounds Of rice, but none OF 1t comes
from the United States. OF potatoes,
Europe grows more than she needs,
while the United States supplies her
deficiency from Canada and Germany.
Only Great Britain, Belgium and Portu-
gal, OF oil European nations, do rot pro.
duce enough butter and to spare. To
make up the deficiency, 25,000,0OO
pounds, the United States exports "a
00O, 900. 1t requires 10000, 900 pounds
OF cheese to supply the European de-
iiciency Of which 11S,OOO,0OO are fur.
nished by the United States. OF course
Europe has TO import all her cotton, the
average annual imports being 2,GS0,0OO,-
600 pounds. The United States sends
her ] $50, 100000 pounds.
Mr.. Dodge says: "This country Is only
exceeded by Great Britain in cotton
manufacture and should, ere many de-
cades pass, attain the first rank"
Europe gets from South America,
Asia, Africa and Australia, two or three
times as much wool as she imports from
the United States. The net deficiency
OF Europe is 10000 900 pounds, slightly
more than Is produced there, The
United States produces iour.Gfths OF the
wool manufactured here. The aim OF
tho wool grower OF this country Is to
supply the home manufacturer II posi-.
bic; never to export raw wool. II there
ever shall be q surplus, It will bring
more money to the wool grower II sent
abroad In the manufactured form,
The United States imports net co..
600, COO pounds Of wool every year.
The statement shows that Europe
produces about as much tobacco as the
United States-50O, 100000 pounds an
nually, and could easily produce all she
needs, but the American tobacco Is de.
sired for two reasons-it is cheap and
very deslrable for iortlfying the Europ.
can product; 80 the United States fur
nishes 242, 1000, 900 pounds OF the annual
deficiency OF 324, 900, 600 pounds.
In conclusion the statistician says:
"About ore-tenth Of our agricultural
products are exported. No other nation
exports 80 large proportion, yet the ar
tiCles shipped abroad are few. They are
cotton, tobacco, meats, breadstutis 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