Arizona republican., 1906-11-19
PINNED FOOD
 MORE EATEN
United States the Cook
 for the World
Eighteen Million Dollars Worth of Canned Goods Exported Last Year.

vable in domestic affairs and domestic commerce is extending to the foreign trade. Figures of the bureau of statls- tics of the department of commerce and labor record the eNpo-tation of over IS million dollars worth of canned foods in the fiscal year just ended. 1906. against about II millions in 1896, an in-
 crease of over 60 per cent in that time. This total of IS million dollars in
 cludes only articles in which the form of their eXportation is so distinctly
 stated as to justify their classification
 under the general title of canned foods.
 They include such articles as canned
 beef. about 6l9 million dollars; canned
 fruits, 215 millions; canned salmon.
 practically millions: milk, chiefly
 condensed and canned. nearly mil
 lions; canned pork, 1A millions; can
 ned vegetables. over a half million;
 while sundry less important articles
 bring the total recorded canned goods
 above IS million dollars for the year.
 In addition to this it is probable that | the lard. butter and certain other ar | ticles of this character exported to ! tropical countries or to parts of tn
 world which can only be reached by J long voyages are also sent in sealed or air-tight packages.
 In addition to this IS million dollars
 worth of exports. as distinctly desig-
 mated as canned foods. there is about 1A million dollars worth to Hawaii, Poro Rico and Alaska. which is not in- cluded in the statement of exports. al- though the 35O,0O0 dollars worth sent n ba DhfIinninaG ;- inn eli n the bureau of statistics still includes the trade with the Philippines in it's figures of foreign commerce
 Canned provisions. or "tinned" foods as they are designated in most cOun- tries other than the United States, form considerable part of the food supply ! of Europeans and Americans in the Tropics and in the orient. The sup ply Of animal food fin tropical coun- tries is small and that of vegetables | also small and the quality unsatisfac- | tory to people from the Temperate | zone. As a consequence. coupled with l the steady increase in the number of | temperate zone people living in or travelling through the tropics and the orient. the demand for canned or ftin- ned" foods is steadily and rapidly in creasing in those parts of the world.
 A decade ago the value of canned | fruits sent out of the United States was but 115 million dollars. against 2is millions in 1906i and the total of can ned pork and other canned meats lex elusive of beeD. which now aggregate nearly million dollars. was a decade ago of so little importance that it was not separately enumerated in the state ment of exports. but simply grouped under the general designation of "all other" while the eXportation of milk most of which goes in condensed and canned form, was a decade ago about one quarter of a million dollars in value. and now is nearly million dol lars annually.
 The distribution of these articles of canned food shows a steady trend to- ward the tropics. but that in certain of the standard food supplies, such as beef. pork. salmon and fruits, the Eu- ropean countries. are also drawing upon the United States to a consider able extent. Of the canned beef ex- ports of 1906. which amounted as whole 70 $6,43O,446, the United King dom took S4,431, ,616 in value; while the
 
 Africa, $513.4S5; Japan. s2S1, ,1s5; Ger many. S166,O736; and Belgium, S155.- O17. Mexico, Cuba. the West Indies and the South American countries were also considerable purchasers of this class of merchandise. in sums from $25,OOO to over $5O.OOO.
 Of canned fruits, the total exporta- tiOn of which was, in 1906, S2,34s. .O64, the United Kingdom is also by far the largest customer, taking in 1905, the latest year for which figures are ob- S2.05S.505 out of a total ex- in that year of s2.541, ,525. In canned salmon, of which the exporta- tiOns ranged nearly 4 million dollars taking, in 1905. si,S72, ,992 out of total export of $3,O35, ,469 of canned salmon in that year.
 One rather curious item of exporta- tion is caviare, of which large quanti- ties are supplied by the establishments of the Great Lakes which produce this article from the plentiful supply of fish eggs there available. the total ex- portation having aggregated nearly two million dollars in the last decade. The quantity is, however. steadily de- ranging downward from S254. .3S4 in 1897 to $17,S29 in 1906: while the total value of caviare imported into the United States in 1905. the lat est year for which figures are avail able, was $27, ,220.