Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-04-07
UNCLE SAM GAN No
LONCERFEEO THE
WORLD
Especial Correspondence to Mornins JournaIi

I from the department OF commerce and
labor to be without foundation. The
time was, not so many years ago, when
the United States wns pre-eminent as
Now her glory is passing because she
has grown so rapidly in population
grown to maturity, and in home de-
mands that her supply of food is
barely sufficient to 80 around with
in her own borders
1t is a repetition Of the old story of
the gladiators. ancient and modern,
of age being slowly pushed aside by
youth Just as the young pugilist-
the modern gladiator-comes up with
the vigor Of unspent youth to Wrest
the laurels from the brow of the old
er man who has worn them for
years. so newer and younger countries
are slowly Wrestling from the United
States her title as the worlds dinner
table hero
1t is not in one particular only that
America is giving way to Argentina.
to Canada, to Australia to New Zen
land in the quantity of surplus bread
and meat In practically every item
of breadstuffs live stock and meat
products our exports have shown "a
big falling off in the last two years
We are still pre-cminent as corn
producing country. hut notwthstand-
ing our enormous yearly crops of
from two and one-half and three bill
lions of bushels, we do not raise much
more than enough to meet our do
mestic demands. The corn exports
dropped from SS.200,S72 bushels i'm
1907. to 36.2O5,052 in 1909. We raise
practically all the maize that is grown
in the world ana the giant who is
passing out of the years of callow
youth into a more mature period, has
nothing to fear on this score from the
giants that are just beginning To feel
their strength. Canada, Argentina.
Australasia. etc. cannot raise corn
in competition with the United States,
but those countries DO raise other meat
producing foods tha, enable them to
enter into active ana dangerous COM
petition with us IA the struggle to
raise matchmaking live stock
For half a century the United
states has been a great wheat export
Ing nation but here too, she is rap
idly breaking ground and retreatnS
because she does not have suffici-
cnt surplus to send abroad Out
wheat exports dropped from 9l3S3-
GAS bushels in 1907, to 4S.4S9,674 in
1909. and the exports of wheat flour
from 15,276.506 barrels to 9,6S7.993.
10 Z I'm af "a
half the people in the world, rice sup
plying the other half. Twenty-Five
years ago or even ten years ago, the
fertile prairie wheat lands Of the
United states grew hundreds of mill
lions of bushels of the grain more
than our own people required for
their generous standard OF living. To
day Argentina and Canada are rap
idly overtaking the United States as
wheat exporting countries. They
have as large wheat fields now and
great empires i'm reserve and many
fewer people to feed az home. Europe
is looking more and more tc Argen-
tina ana Canada foi its supply Of
wheat to make up for its own deficit
Argentina and Canada also are
treadine upon our heels in the mat
ter of the exports of live stock and
in both countries there are already
the beginning of "A movement to EN-
bark in the meat producing business
which may Wrest stll another leaf
from the laurels Of the United states.
Just as in the production of corn and
wheat we have not kept pace with
our increase in population and con-
sumption so i'm our live stock grow
ing we have Ragged behind. the fig
ures giving basis to the recent utter
ances of James J. Hin that We must
turn more attention TO individual live
stock growing
In 1907 our exports Of cattle num-
bered 401.5SS head, 20 mere bagatelle
compared with the total number con-
sumed within our borders. but a large
number when compared with the
.184.957 head that We're exported in
1909.
But while we have been killing our
cattle and other meat producing ami
mails much faster than new ones have
been raised to grow them, Argentina,
Canada and Australasia have been
steadily increasing both their home
production and their exports.
1t has not been SO many years that
the students at Harvard could conf
IDENTIFY count upon taking "a cheap
summer trip to Europe on one Of the
many cattle ships that sailed from
Boston one of the sad features
about our loss of prestige as a cattle
exporting nation, at least from the
standpoint of the New Englander. is
the passing of Boston as shipping
port and as a food supply point. Not
only are the students at Cambridge
and other nearby universities and col
leges forced to forego their summer
vacations in Europe because there are
not enough cattle ships TO go around.
but Boston's once famous market
place has fallen into decay II was
one of the last OF the old-time places
10 which our mothers and srand-
mothers went to market" as women
still do in England and France. and
may do again soon ln the United
states. selecting their own vegetables
and fish and meats. and held an equal
place with the famous French market
of New Orleans.
Those who smile superciliously ~
the idea of Canada and Argentina
ousting the United States as "a meat
exporting country need only to look
back "a few years over the wonderful