Arizona republican., 1904-09-26
Why Agricultural Exports
 Are Falling off.
THE DECREASE LAST YEAR
In Spite of Cotton Shipments the Heaviest in Twenty-Five years--- All This in the Face of the Fact of an Extraordinary Production.

Washington, Sept. 25.-The increase in exports of manufactures and de- crease in exports of agricultural pro- ducts are discussed at considerable length in a report of the chief of the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor For the first time in the history of the expert trade of the United States manufactures ex- ceeded s450, ,OCO,COO and agricultural products for the first time fell below GO Der cent of the total domestic ex- ports. The total exports of domes- tic manufactures were Sf52, ,445 629 against s4O7, ,526. .159 in 1903. and s4S3 .S51.- 756 in 1900, the highest record in the earlier years. The total value of agri- cultural products exported was SS53.- 6S5.367, against $S73,322. .SS2 in 1903, and S943 811. ego in 1901. when the highest to- tai of agricultural products was re corded.
 Comparing conditions of 1904 with those of a. decade earlier, it may be said that the exports of agricultural products were $S59.68 367 in 1904. com pared with S62S. .363 O3S in 1894, an in- crease of 35.SG per cent, and the exports of manufactures in 1904 was Sl52. .445. .629. compared with S1S3. .71S4 ASA in 1S94. an increase of 146.24 per cent. Agricultur- al products formed 59.4S per cent of the exports in 1904, 72.2S per cent in 1894, and 73.9S per cent in 1881. while manu- factures formed 3L52 per cent of the total exports in 1904. 2114 per cent in 1894. and 1881 per cent in 1884.
 The gain in manufactures over agri- 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-fifth as much in value as agricultural products export ed; in 1884 their value was about one fourth as much, and in 1904 more than one-half as much as that of the pro-
 ducts of agriculture, while in the clos ing months of the year, May and June l ma anufactures for the first time in hi7- | tory of our commerce actually cxceed- 1 cd agricultural products in ValHe ot f exports.
 ] This decrease in the value Of agricul-
 tural 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 ot ] a century, and that the value of raw l cotton exported was greater than iT 1 any preceding year. and formed nearly ! One-half of the total value of aSricul- tural products exported. The average
 price of cotton exported during the ! year was over F cents a pound. tn. | highest annual average since 1875. ant ] the total value of the cotton export ' ed was S3T0, SIC. .246, a sum greater thar l that representing the value of cottor
 exported in any preceding year.
 An analysis of the expectations ot ! agricultural products shows that they are chiefly composed of three great l groups of articles-raw cotton, provi- ! siOns and live animals. and breadstuffs 1 During the decade ending with 19O. ! cotton formed 32 per cent of the agri-
 cultural exports and 21 per cent of the
 total exports: breadStuffs 29 per cen
 of the agricultural exports and 19 pel
 cent of the total exports; while provi-
 sions and live animals formed 2S.5 pel
 cent of the agricultural exports and 1, , per cent of the total exports, and agri- l cultural products as a whole formed 6, ! per cent of the total exports of domes- i tic products. In 1904, however, cotto- 1 formed 43 per cent of the exports o 1 agricultural products and 9 per cent O
 the total domestic exports; provision: and live animals formed 26 p.r cent O.
 the agricultural and 10 per cent of tn, ! total domestic exports; while agricul ! tural products as a whole formed 59.4i I per cent of the total domestic exports ] During the decade ending with 19o, manufactures formed 27 per cent of tn, total domestic exports; in 1904 they ] formed 31.5 per cent.
 In q word, breadstuffs, which formed
 19 per cent of the domestic exports fl
 the decade ending with 1903 forme, but 10 per cent in 1904: provisions anC
 live animals, which formed IS per cen
 in the decade ending with 1863. fo1me,
 15 per cent in 1904; cotton, which form
 ed q per cent in the decaded endina
 with 1903, formed 9 per cent in 1901
 agricultural products as a whole
 which formed 65 per cent of the tota
 exports in the decade ending with 1903 formed but 59.5 per cent in 1904; an,