The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-17
OUR FARM IMPORTS
WE BUY 1920, 1ss, 2ss WORTH FROM
OTHER LANDS.
ALL THE WORLD SELLS TO US.
EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA
AND SOUTH AMERICA

All Send Us Their Products-CofYee
From Brazil and Java Leads,
While Cuba Holds Fourth Place
with Her TObacco-Great Britain
and Germany Send Large Quanti-
ties of Farm Produce, While the
Tea of Japan and China Costs No
Small Money.
Washington, June 16-Mr. Frank Fl.
Hitchcock. chief OF the section of foreign
markets of the Agricultural Department.
has prepared a bulletin showing the
sources of the agricultural imports of
the United States for the period from 1896
to 1900 1t shows that the total value
of agricultural produce imported into the
United States in 1900 was $40. 139. 2Ss, that
year being the record year of the FIVE.
The annual average was 1876, 1858. Eu-
rope was decidedly our most important
source of agricultural imports, we taking
from that continent in 1900 $l2s 900, 900 worth
Of farm produce, being the largest in
recent years, except 1897, when we re-
ceived $152, 100000 Asia in 1900 sent US
$1Ol 100000 in agricultural produce rapid
TASG lIOIu Sbo,OUVsuVU III 1870 OuT farm pro-
duce imports from oceanica also rose
rapidly. being $3l.00O,OCO in 1900 against
81. 100000 in 1896, while on the ether hand
there was falling off two millions in our
imports of farm produce from North
American countries. there being $S3.0oo.OO0
in 1900. against 100000 in 1896. Imports.
however, in the three years preceding 1900
we're larger than this. There was large
falling off in agricultural imports from
South America they being S93OOO,0Oo in
1896 and only s646O0,O0O in 1899, and s6s 0oO,.
0J0 in 1900
Bra1ips Coffee Trade.
Our African farm produce imports de-
clined from $40, 400, 600 in 1895 to $670O,000
in 1893. and rose again in 1900 to $l0600.0 0O
Brazil. owing to its heavy coffee trade,
holds the foremost place in the ranks OF
countries sending us coffee supplies, her
total for 1900 being $39.2S7 600. Our i'm
ports from there. however, have been
steadily decreasing. In 1896 they were
$50, 66s.O00 The United Kingdom ranks
next to Brazil with $S2.6O6O00 worth OF
farm produce exports to us in 1900 a gain
over the two Immediately preceding years,
but a loss of SIS, 900 900 as compared with
1897 The Dutch East Indies ranked third
with $27. 500. 900 In agricultural products
sent to us in 1900, the five-year period
showing a steady gain, the figures for
1896 being only $l459S,0OO.
Cuba in 1900 sent us $27, 900 in farm
produce. the war resulting in such fuc-
tuations I'm the statistics as $36, 1856 900 in
1896 and $13. COO in 1898. Germany comes
next with $26,0i9.000 in 1900 against $22-
$4,000 In 1896. and Sal. $4,000 in her record
year of 1897.
Japan and China's Large Gains.
Japan and China made large gains DUR
ing the five years, Japan sending us in
1900, $24,7 600. against 1882 600 In 1895,
and China $24. 1871, 900 In 1900, against $ls.-
649, 600 in 1896. France sent US more In
1900 than in any one Of the other years
given, being $21,052000 as compared with
ST. 75S, 900 in 1896. Hawaii likewise made
a record in 1900 with s20.63S000 worth of
farm produce exported to us against only
$i1 10000 in 1896. Itay's gain was from
s15. 95S 600 in 1896 to s2O.529 600 in 1900. and
Mexico's from $12751, 900 On 1895 to s20-
0O2, 900 in 1900. Other countries sent us
less than $2O,O00.000 annually.
The leading articles of farm produce
imported - - &; .eec .;s the order
of their importance, sugar, hides and
skins, coffee, silk, vegetable ibres, woods,
fruits, and nuts, tobacco, tea, wines
vegetable oils and cocoa, the value OF
each of these exceeding 100000.