The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-05-13
EXCESS
OF EXPORTS.
Chief Of Statistics
Explains
WHAT EXPORTS
EXCEED IMPORTS
How Letters Of Credit Fig
ure in the Matter; Indian
GentIeman'S Queries
washlnaton. May IS. returns to The

Washington. May Returns to the
statlstican of the department. ~ asricu-
fure madc up 70 May j shows tie area
under winter Wheut in cultivation On that
date TO have been about H,zotVW HSes.
TY,ia Is 2m5.00o acres or hl per cent Tess
than the area souW last year bu 20OoW1l
acres or "a rer cent IN excess Of the win
ter wheat acreage harvested last year.
Of the reduction. about one-hat is re-
ported from Texas, and California due
IN the former state Go rayages or the
wheat plant louise and iu the latter cut-
ting g. aa is not unusual In that state ot
considerable acreage inr forage ~ tn'
states that had one million hcfea or up-
ward sown iaat fall the following ger
ccnfarea arc reported as abandoned or
cut for forace Missouri Il. Kansas I.
Illinois I'D, Pennsylvania p; lldiana 90.
Ohio So Tennessee a.; Michigan 9ti
oklahoma 1875; California IS and Texas
424 For thc area remaining under culti-
walton the average condition on May
was 9i.s while this aVcraEe is l0.5 points
above the mean OF the May Averages or
tho last ten years. and has been oNceed-
ed only three tlmcs IN seventeen yara
it must b remembered thNt the acreage
plowcd up. cut for forage on otherwise
abandoned has been entirely eliminated
In Kansas the wheat crop hu5 held lts
own az the high average, io, reported
April I. while an Improvement OF hNe
eight in Illinois. and four in Missouri. ON
the other hand Notwithstanding ~
elimination in Texas and caNiofnia ot 40
much of the acreage aa VIII NOT pe hat-
vested. "a decline is noticed dmountinB Z"
four points IN the former state ANA iouf-
teen in the latter
The nvorage condition of winter rye ON
May / WAS ~. nes compared with @I ln
Aprfl j. iSn $50 or May 1, lyly' 81
~ Inc corresponding date in 1893 ,ard
Kaa al the corresponding date 10 lNs, n,l-
81 2 the mean Of the May averages OF the
last ten years. The present condiu'n y
hr hlrhest since 1891 Pennsylvana ans
Sc,, York and two-hfths Of the total win-
fer rye acreaEe Of the country 'each Ie
rort "A condition Of "a which correapohus
WITH the ten year average ia New ioth
but la four points above sueh HFeia7e '''
.rhe averape condition Of meadow now
Inc lands on May ] WAS Zo against ~
on MAY T. 1900, Si.9 at the corfesponui'is
dnte in 1880 and OIL on May J, the mean oi
the Nav averages Of the last ten years
srtn average condition or sprlhk pHa
t,,res. an Say T. was 9l5 against N's on
NAV /. 1900; S85 az the corresponoins "'e- ,,.
iu 1904 and 90S. the menn ul l'' N"'
nrnes IN the last ten years
De tha total nluount of furiug pluWinB
reportcd as CONTEMPLATED 9 is estimated
thpf only 0a ner cont N Aflu|uA ViNN
am 10 MAY T. tho prapuntial uahhilN ount
bv mat dato being about Is per cent ot the
whole only three tlrues in the lhal tt-
tecn years has the percentage aone ~
NAV been as low aH IN this year W
the atates having one million 9! nP"stva ,l, ,.,r
fo be plowed this spring only north tht-
Dina Georgia Alebama MlssisslNl D.
Iouisiana. Arkansas ana Tennessee report
the proportion actually done ilP lo N'y
3 as In excess ot their respectiFe ven s''t, y.
averages The lateness OF the season -
especially marked IN New YORK fthhsSl
vnnia. indiana, Minuesotni Iowa hANAhs
and Nebraska.
planted IN cotton with the condition ae-
cording To the latest adviccs VIII DC iRau-
washington, D. c.. May lS.-"What
has caused SO much produce. merehaf-
disc ana specle Of the United States 20
20 ont Of the country without thc or
dinary corresponding roturn2' la q ques'
non recently propoundcd 70 the ueaA-
u,es bureau 20 statistics by Mr. padabo-
mai NaoroH an Indian gentlemen res'a-
ink london.
Mr. Naoroi ln MS inquiry addresses
to mo bureau OF statistics quotes the r.
cent neures showing "a large eNoess OF
exports of merehandise and speele over
the net Imports Of merchandise ana ihe
sptcio and says. in lndia heavy n''
excess always nkea place becauso th'
system of government of india comrfA
"A heavy tribute B. e.. compcls large
drain of the produce ~ India 20 rms
land without amy material return of %. e
chandise or soce!e. but America q
not under sch drhnlng system or an
nlim foreign g1vornomtn' ana thefe'
fore desire 10 know the causes ANA tnN'
,xtents. Of such heavy uet excess or exc
ports or Amerlcas wealth or prodnc.
and how large bannce of trade Is cN'
nected 60 Doe settled
The Following IS AN cXtraet rom lh'
reply OF thp chief of the bureau OF a'A'
tiatica; "
During tha period immcqiateiy IeiioM'
ius our civil war gfcRt Internal otNe'
onment AZ our railways ana mappiac'lF
ing occurred. Mucn FOREIGN capital was
hrousht into the 'nNed stasfs for use p
this derolopmmeni and during that tm'
and in subsequent years rilroaa ant
other securtan We're larselF mai hrtf'
abfohd 1he commercial res9p 9i tA'
dcNcloament of railways aud mannfact
urines establishments Including She opel
inu az new fields ~ prodneti0p was af
enormous Increase 10 the eNporsaton'
ana 3 disposition % relatively decrtaa'
the imfortations because the devclor.
ment of manufacturing was manIua u
pfactlcanie TO produce "a home from oui
own materials much which Was lormer'>
brodehi in from abroad ahps tN'
great business development of me years
1890 10 1880 hed tendency % stimulate
production ana oxportesou, out diseour