The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-14
And VIII Further Incense the Radical
German Agrarians Who Are
at the Rome Congress.
COUNT LoEwITz's PROPOSAL
WANTS EUROPEANS TO COMBINE
AGAINST THIS COUNTRY.
Would Stay the Inflow OF Americas
Breadstuhs and Provisions by
Putting Up Tariff Walls.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April 13.-Now that the
completed returns of our foreign trade foi
the fiscal year 1902 are available, II is pos
sible to determine with accuracy the exteni
TO which products of agriculture contrib
uted to our imports and our exports. The
total imports of all kinds Of merchandise
during the year mentioned amounted In
value to s903. 600 900, and of this sum s4l4.ooo,-
600, or about 46 per cent, represented the
value of imported products of agriculture
OF the domestic exports for 1902. amounting
in value to 81. .S55. o.ooo. about s2 per cent
consisted of farm produce, the shipments
of such produce having a value Of sS57 Co.,.
600. While these figures are greatly above
the average of the past decade. they exhibit
a marked falling off in comparison with the
record-breaking exports of 1901. which wert
valued at s52.ooo.0oo.
Ranked according to value. the leading
items in our agricultural import trade foi
1902 were as follows: Coffee. animal fbers
hides and skin. lsugar, vegetable fbers
fruits and nuts, alcoholic liquors, tobacco
tea, vegetable oils. cocoa and chocolate
and vegetables. These twelve items had
combined value of ss72. 900. comprising
eign agriculture imported during the veal
under consideration.
In 1902, as in the year before, cotton stood
foremost among the agricultural exports OF
the United States. Grain and grain prod
ucts formed the second item in Importance.
followed closely by meat and meat prod
ucts These three great items. cotton. grain
and meat with an aggregate value Of $780,
100000. comprised the bulk of our export
trade in products of the farm. In addition
to these leading exports there were several
other items OF considerable Importance. as
follows: Live animals. tobacco. oil caks
and oil-cake meal, vegetable oils. fruid
and nuts, seeds and dairy products The
ten items enumerated above comprised In
value over 95 per cent. of our total agri-
cultural exports for 1902. While the ex-
ports of cotton were considerable larger
last year than during 1901. a decided drop
in price caused a rather marked falling
off in the total value OF the shipments.
According to the returns for 1902 our cot
ton exports for that year amounted 10 g..
52S,9I4, 636 pounds. but they were worth only
$29l, sos, 1856 Notwithstanding a gain of 1s9.-
276 pounds in quantity, there was a loss
of $23, ,506, 691 In value. The annual export
price for 1902 averaged only S3 cents per
1901.
During 1902 the United States sent TO for
eign markets shipments OF grain and grain
products worth in the aggregate $213. .401,-
23S. When compared with the export record
of the year before, these figures disclose
a decidedly large falling OF. the loss IN
value amounting to So. 443.379 The items
that contributed most 10 this loss were
corn, oats and wheat -four. In the exporta-
ton Of wheat, barley and rye considerable
gains were made over the records OF 1901.
Our exports of butter last year had q
value Of $2.SS. .60e. the amount shipped be-
ing 1G,02. 1863 pounds In comparison with
the records of 1901 the value declined ST.
9,296. and the quantity 7,2l.357 pounds.
The annual export price. which averaged
17.3 cents a pound for 1901, advanced In 1901
to IS cents a pound.
In the expectation OF cheese there was a
still greater falling of than in the case OF
butter. Our cheese shipments for 1904
amounted TO only q, Doc, 1s4 pounds, worth
81, ,745. .597 These figures show a decline OF
l2.610.333 pounds in the amount exported.
with loss OF 81. .205. .402 in value. The an
nual export price per pound averaged 80
cents for 1901 and l0.1 cents for 1902