Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-26
United States Exported
100000 Worth in '08.
Cuba Was Largest Purchaser
With Japan Second.
Interesting Facts Contained In
Customs Officers Report.

Washington. April 25.-SiXteen mill
lion dollars worth Of condensed milk
has been exported frCm the United
States during the i,aSt decade, S2.O0uO 900
Of IT III the fsacl year 1908. China, Japan
the Philippine Islands, Korea. Asatic
Russia. Portuguese, Africa, Mexico and
all of the Central and South American
States. cuba, Santo Domingo, the Brit
sh West Indies. Canada, and even the
United Kingdom, are among the nu-
lncrous purchasers of this compare
lively lew and rapidly growing export
from the United states.
Tho expectations of milk" from the
United States, as reported by customs
officers To Tie Bureau Of statistics OF
the Department Of commerce and La
Dor, hav" shown d very rapid growth
in recent wears. the total value being
in 1Sy5. $2la1>5; in 1893. So go: III
1860, 81, 49, ia,.; ia 1905. SLIT. GIG; and in
1908, $2.4'.5. 1SG This rapid growth. to-
stther with the Wiue distribution has
led the Bureau Of statistics to an in
u!iry regardin" the details OF this
growing trade The result OF the in
quirv making it apparent that prac-
tcally all Of TIL" milk so exported goes
in condensed form. probably not moro
than one per cent. in the natural state.
The Oriental and tropical countries
are the chief sections of the world to
whicl. this product of the industries OF
the United States is distributed cuba
was the largest purchaser in l9o>. the
total value of exports of this article tC
cuba in that year being 500, O65. Japal
I Il
SI71 $50: the Philippine Islands. $il1.-
6"2; China $S1,o3+: Mexico. S1s.03": Brit
| iSh South Africa, $685.: HonskinS
-. Il; Asiatic Russia. S35,6r1; and
Portuguese Africa. S2o.7lo. The value
ot the exports Of this single article tt
| tie Philippine Islands in laoS-$t51 .6'2-
| is moe than our total exports Of ai
kinds ~ Merchandise. to the Philip
pines in 1898. d decade earlier When tho
total merchandise. domestic anG
foreign. exported to those islands was
Sl21.$0i. of which $331l was CONDENSED
| milk. With American occupation the
shipments of this article to the Philip
| rineS Increased rapidly. being in thf
| fiscal year 1859. s4zla: in 1900. $50. 225
in 1858, $50. %; H. 1894. $I33,7ld and il
lH,S. as already stated. S151 SOP. II
! Cuba tie grow tn has also be 2n rapid
| he Nalu2 Of condensed milk exported
II that island in 1897 being $1n,iS,; il
| lGoo. $442.Gi0; III 1906. S6e5,917: and if
| 1903. 43Gl.GGH. Japan has also Increased
rapidly rer takiu"s of tits particular
| class of our exports. the total value
| OF condensed milk exported to thai
country in 1898 being S76, 1D6; in 1900
500. 432: in 1895, s491. SOP; and in 1905
s66f1,0. TO China the exports If 100,
Terc $2"..4H: in 1904. $761S4: and il
| 1905. $S1.f34. To Mexico the growth has
heen rapid and largely coirciC, MA
with the Increase in The number OF
| Americans engaged in mining anC
Iothcr Industrial enterprises in thai
| country. the total value IF milk eX
ported to Mexico in 1897 being about
| ST.. Ia3. in 1900. $26.51S; AMI III 1905
| $6.9U23. Even such distant and cut o
the way places as the Canary Islands
| iberia. Dutch East Indies. Korea. Sc
| uador British ard Dutch GuianaS
| Rernu,la. and the various West Indian
| Islands show greater or less takineS 81
| this article. tn" number of countries OF
| which condensed milk was sent in !30|
| aSSrc eating over fifty.