The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-08

7s6. Compared With 1909 there was a
decrease in all or the principal items ex-
cept cotton. for which the increa sc was
about S33. 900 600.
value OF domestic exports have had a
decreased ratio from about so per cent at
tho middle of the nineteenth century, TO
SIS per cent in 1900. s51 per cent in
1909. and 500 per cent in 19io.
Trade Growing Fast.
The imports of agricultural products
have constantly increased in value
| throughout the history OF this country'a 3
| international trade. The fraction for
| 1910 Is al per cent OF the value OF all
| Imports.
IN absolute instead Of relative value,
however, the imports OF agricultural pro-
ducts have constantly increased until
they reach tho enormous total of s5STs-
iSG.1SS in 1910.
Tho more prominent items and groups
Of agricultural Imports arc packing-housc
products lmostlv hides aud skinsD. sugar
and molasses. coffee. silk. wool vege-
table hbors- tobacco and fruits.
Forest products 10 the value Of sS5.-
0S4.eo2 we're exported IN the fiscal year
1910.
High Cost Of Living.
High prices receive considerable atten-
tion In this report. In the case OF milk
in seventy-eiEht cities distributed
throughout tho United States where the
subject was Investigated by the depart
per cent. or ore half of the price paid
by the consumer. Tho railroads get
| about Z per cont. SO that the remaining
a. per cent Is received mostly by the re-
| taller.
The milk wagon of the retailer has a
long route. so there Is "A great waste of
| effort and Of expense in tho distribu-
J ton"
| The farmer receives hardly moro than
| half of tho consumers price in the case
of poultry; 50 per cent In the case OF
| H.. -t,t
By the head and 90 per cent when
bought by the pound: celery. GO per cent
Whom bought by the bunch.
Tho apple grower receives So per cent
| of the consumers price when the pur-
chase s b. the bushel and IS per cent
when by tho barrel: the strawberry
| grower gets 40 per cent of the consum- =
| ers price In purchases by the quart and
the consumer buys a peck OF onions at
a time the farmer receives 2S per cent
OF the rotail price; when he buys bar
| rel the farmer receives 5s per cent.
| So in the case Of oranges when the pur-
chase is by the dozen the grower re-
celvcs 90 per cent OF the consumer 4
| the box the grower gets 50 per cent. Tho
| rule seems TO be, the smaller the retail
quantity tho smaller the farmers share
of the consumers price.
Farmer Not to Blame
Among the many other products repre-
sented In tho list arc oats. with "a per
cent Of the consumers price going to
! tho farmer when bought by tho bushcl;
melons. 80 per cent when bought by the
pound; parsnips GO per cent when bought
by the bunch; potatoes. b9 per cent when
bought by tho bushcl: string beans. 30
per cent when bought by the barrel;
! sweet potatoes 81 per cent when bought
| by the barrel. turnips. so per cent in
purchases by the bunch; watermclons 81
| per cent when bought slngly.
| Four-fifths OF the coffee imported into
tic United States In the fiscal year 1910
| came from Brazil About OIL OF 1 per
| cent OF the coffoe imports are from
| Alden and arc the nominal Mocha coffee,
and l.2 per cent of the imports are from
the East Indies and arc the Java coffee.
| The import values, plus the ocean freight
charge. is from % 10 40 per cent Of the