Arizona republican., 1909-04-12
MILK NEGOTIATIONS
 MOUNTS ID MILLIONS
The Tin Cow Driven to All Parts of
 the World.

Washington, April 11.--SiXteen mil lion dollars worth of condensed milk has been exported from the United States during the past decade, 2Ia million dollars of it in the fiscal year 1908. China, Japan, the Philip pine Islands, Korea, Asiatic Russia, Portuguese Africa, Mexico, and all of the Central and South American states, Cuba, Santo Domingo, the British West Indies, Canada, and even the United Kingdom, are among the numerous purchasers of this comparatively new and rapidly growing export from the United States.
 The exportatiOns of milk" from the United States, as reported by customs officers to the bureau of statistics of the department of com merce and labor, have shown a very rapid growth in recent years, the total value being in 1895, s219, ,7S5; in 1898, S671.67O; in 1900, s1,139, 402; i; in 1905, $2.156,616; and in 1908, S2,455,1S6. This rapid growth, to- gether with the wide distribution, has led the bureau of statistics to an inquiry regarding the details of this growing trade, the result of the in quiry making it apparent that prac- tically all of the milk so exported goes in condensed form, probably not more than l per cent in the natural state.
 The oriental and tropical countries are the chief sections of the world to which this product of the indus tries of the United States is dis tributed. Cuba was the largest pur- chaser in 1908, the total value of ex- ports of this article to Cuba in that year being s9O5,06S; Japan ranking next with s666,37O; Canada, $177.96O: the Philippine Islands, s157.602; China, SS7.034: Mexico, s79.023: British South Africa, $76,923; Hong kong, s39,145; Asiatic Russia, s35.- 601, and Portuguese Africa, $22, ,710. The value of the exports of this single article to the Philippine Islands in 190S-S157, 602-is more than our total exports of all kinds of mer- chandise to the Philippines in 1898, a decade earlier, when the total mer- chandise, domestic and foreign, ex- ported to those islands was S127,S0 of which S371 was condensed milk. With American occupation the ship ments of this article to the Philip pines increased rapidly, being in the fiscal year 1899, $4,21O; in 1900 s20,225: in 1903, s36,232; in 1904 S133,746; and in 1908, as already stated, s157,6O2. To Cuba the growth has also been rapid, the value of condensed milk exported to that island in 1897 being $7O.4S5; in 1900, SAP, ,610: in 1906, s665,277; and in 1908, $905, ,06S. Japan has also in creased rapidly her takings of this particular class of our exports, the total value of condensed milk export ed to that country in 1898 being S76.706: in 1900, s99,433; in 1905, s497,S62; and in 1908, s666,37O To China the exports of 1908 were s23,- 74S; in 1904, s76, ,134; and in 1908, sS7,034. To Mexico the growth has been rapid and largely coincidental with the increase in the number of Americans engaged in mining and other industrial enterprises in that country. the total value of milk ex- ported to Mexico in 1897 being but $11,503: in 1900, $2657S: and in 1908, $79,023. Even such distant and out of the way places as the Canary Islands, Liberia, Dutch East Indies, Korea, Ecuador, British and Dutch Guianas, Bermuda, and the various West Indian islands show greater or less takings of this article, the num- Der of countries to which condensed over 50.