The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-03-03
MARYLAND PRODUCTS
SOLD in CANADA.
STATEMENT SHOWING HOW Reel
PROCITY WILL BENEFIT STATE.
Fresh vegetables TO Amount Of $685.
i'm Go Over Border Each Year
Coal and Brick.

The Trade Relations Bureau OF the
nonartment of State has been digging
80 some facts and figures az to the
offect OF the Canadian reciprocity up
~ some Of the leading industries of
StarvIand. which will be found be-
low:
Marvland's renowned fruit prod
rcte-caneloupes, grapes, apples,
nears and peaches-will enter Can
Ida free Of duty under the proposed
reciprocal tariff legislation. Since
ber fruits each year arrive at the
marketable stage many weeks before
me Canadian fruits commence to ma
tnre. Maryland will find the new sit
nation a highly profitable one.
Melons are at present taxed 8 cents
each by the Dominion, irrespective Of
whether they be watermelons or musk
melons. This duty has proved almost
nrohibitive in the case of the smaller
melon. and has even operated to ex-
cmde the famous Pocomoke cantelou-
pes from the Canadian market.
MARYLAND fruit growers have fire.
ouentIy petitioned our Department of
state for relief from the Canadian
tariff rates on melons and other fruits,
and it was with these requests in
mind that the Canadian Cimmission-
ers were prevailed upon to concede,
with much reluctance, the removal Of
all duties from fresh fruits entering
Canada from this country. Grapes,
as well as berries of all kinds, are
now taxed cents pound by Canada.
Apples sent to the Dominion the
dutiable at 40 cents a barrel, peaches
at ST a 100 pounds, pears at so cents a
100 pounds, and plums at 80 cents a
bushel. The well-known high quality
of Maryland's grapes, pears and
peaches will tend to give these prod
ucts an immediate sale in Canada so
soon as the tariff barriers shall be
done away with. Even under the
present tariff status the United States
sold fresh fruits to Canada to value
of $1,271 900 during Canada's last ifs
cal year, paying import duties thereon
to the sum of S261,000
Fresh vegetables will be exempt
from duty, according to the agree
ment. This will give Maryland
larger range Of markets for her early
potatoes and garden produce-onions,
tomatoes, cabbages, celery, etc. We
sell beyond our northern border $685.
$50 worth of vegetables in their natu-
raj state each year, paying duties on
them to the amount of $242, 900
Maryland'S second industry in mag
nitude, according to the 1905 census
Of manufactures, Is the canning or
preserving of fruits and vegetables,
her products of this nature being val
ued at $13,000,000 per annum, or high
er. Under the proposed reciprocity
plan, Canada offers to reduce her rate
on canned vegetables by one-sixth, or
from l II cents to IL cents a pound,
and her rate on canned fruits by one
ninth, or from ~ cents to cents a
pound Last year we sold Canada
$125,000 worth of canned fruits and
vegetables.
Oysters and other shell fish, in any
state, will be admitted into Canada
without tariff charge IL the agreement
is ratified. Hitherto American canned
oysters have been largely excluded
from Canada by the latter's present
duties from 3 cents a pint package and
cents quart package.
Bulk oysters have been taxed 10
cents gallon, and oysters in the shell
25 per cent. ad valorem. The removal
of all duties from this characteristic
Maryland product may well result i'm
prosperous oyster traffic with Can
ada.
Under the proposed reciprocal tariff
legislation fish Of all kinds, fresh or
preserved, are to be made mutually
free of duty. Maryland has tradi-
tionally been one of the leading fish
consuming States of this country, and
fish probably from a higher proper
ton Of her food purchases than is the
case in any other State.
The United States imports nearly
$0,0OO,000 worth of fish from Canada,
this amount constituting one-tenth of
our total consumption. Our present
duties are three-quarters of a cent or
l cent pound upon the principal
varieties imported from Canada, in
GLIDING dried and smoked fish; and
the sum collected under these rates
amounts to nearly one-half million
dollars annually on Canadian fish.
The removal of our fish duties will
tend to render this food staple at once
less expensive and more abundant.
The price Of meats in this country
Will also very probably be kept down
by the lowering Of the United States
rates to uniform tax of Ia cents a
pound, which latter is the mutual
reciprocity rate.
Bltuminous coal will be dutiable on
entering Canada at As cents, instead
OF SO cents ton Maryland and West
Virginia coal fields produce a portion
OF the ST 100000 worth OF bituminous
coal sold annually by this country
10 the Canadian provinces of Toronto
and Quebec The lowered duty should
increase these sales.
Vltritied brick for paving will be
taxed at 1712 per cent. instead Of 221a