The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-28
AMERICANS EATING MORE.

| cultural products are discussed at con
siderable length in report of the Chic
of the Bureau of Statistics of the De-
| partrnent of Commerce and Labor. Fol
4 the first time in the history of the
! export trade of the United states
manufactures exceeded s45O.0O0,0 900, anu
agricultural products for the first time
/ fell below so per cent. of the total
| domestic exports The total exports
| of domestic manufactures were $45z,-
| AS, 629. against $4O7, 526, 159 in 1903, and
s443, S51, 756 in 1900, the highest record
| in earlier years The total value of
agricultural products exported was
1858. sS5. 1867. against 1878. ,s82 in 1903,
and ss43, 81, O20 in 1901, when the highest
total of agricultural exports was re-
corded.
Comparing conditions in 1904 with
those of a decade earlier, it may be
said that the exports of agricultural
products were $3.50, 6S5, 1867 in 1904, com
pared with s62S, S6s. OBS in 1894, an in
crease of 1886 per cent, and the ex-
ports of manufactures N 1904 was $751;
445. 62s, compared with $751;. 71S,4S4 in
1894, an increase of 1924 per cent
Agricultural products formed 59.4S per
cent of the exports in 1904, 1928 per
cent. in 1894, and 1898 per cent. in 1884,
while manufactures formed 31.52 per
81
per cent. in 1894, and 1881 per cent. in
1884.
The gain in manufactures over agra
cultural products in the export trade of
the country is shown in the fact that
in 1874 manufactures exported amount,
ed to but about one-ffth as much in
value as agricultural products export
ed; in 1884 their value was about one
fourth as much; in 1894 nearly one
third as much. and in 1904 more than
one-half as much as that of the pro-
ing months of the year, May and June
manufactures for the first time in thel
history of our commerce actually ext
ceeded agricultural products in value of
exports
This decrease in the value of agri-
cultural products exported is the more
striking when it is considered that the
export price of cotton averaged higher
during the year than in any prior year
for more than a quarter of a century,
and that the value of raw cotton ex-
ported was greater than in any preced-
ing year, and formed nearly one-half
of tbs total value of agricultural pro-
ducts exported The average price of
the cotton exported during the year.
was over u cents per pound, the high
est annual average since 1873, and theI
total value of the cotton exported was
$40 S1O,246. a sum greater than that re-
presenting the value of cotton exported
in any preceding year.
An analysis of the expectations OF
agricultural products shows that they
are chiefly composed of three groups of
articles-raw cotton. provisions and
live animals, and breadstuffs. During
formed 80 per cent of the agricultural
exports and q per cent of the total
exports; breadstuffs, 20 per cent. of the
agricultural exports and 10 per cent.
of the total exports; while provisions
| and live animals formed 2S.5 per cent
| of the agricultural exports and 10 per
cent of the total exports, and agricul-
tural products as a whole formed DO
! per cent of the total exports of do
mestic products In 1904, however, cot
| ION formed 43 per cent. of the exports
of agricultural products and Is per
/ cent. of the total domestic exports; pro-
visions and live animal fromed 26 per
/ cent. of the agricultural and 15 per cent.
! of the total exports; and breadstuffs
! formed but IL per cent of the agri-
] cultural and 10 per cent. of the total
4 domestic exports; while agricultural
| products as a whole formed 59.4S per
I cent of the total domestic exports.
! During the decade ending with 1903 man
ufactures formed q per cent of the
| total domestic exports: in 1904 they
formed S1.5 per cent.
In a word, breadstuffs. which formed
10 per cent of the domestic exports IN
the decade ending with 1903. formed but
10 per cent in 1904; provisions and live
animals which formed IS per cent. in
the decade ending with 1903. formed Is
per cent. in 1904; cotton, which formed
Fl per cent. in the decade ending with
1903, formed % per cent in 1904: ayr
cultural products as whole. which
formed 60 per cent. of the total exports
in the decade ending with 1908, formed
I, but 5s.5 per cent. in 1904; and manufa,-
lures. which formed 81 per cent. during
(