The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-30
Exports of Farm Products During
the Fiscal Year 1911.

IANpbll - VI Idl Ill pIOuuCIS Will az
gregatc a billion dollars in the fiscal
year which ends with tho month of
June. The Government fiscal year
has for many years ended at the
middle of the calendar year, the
purpose being to give opportunity to
classify and arrange the years fig
ures in time for consideration by
the Congress whose regular date of
meeting is the first Monday in De-
cember, thus the Bureau of Statis-
| tics of the Department of Commerce
and Labor presents its detailed year
ly report of commerce for the year
ending June 30th. Figures for IL
of the u months of the fiscal year
| 1911 are now available, and show
exports of cotton STA million dol
lars, foodstuffs 354 million dollars,
and tobacco 35 million, a total for
the II months ending with May Of
963 million dollars, making it quite
apparent that the sum added for the
month of June will bring the total
exports of farm products during the
fiscal year 1911 above the billion
dollar line.
Cotton as above indicated, is by
far the largest single item, STA mil
lion dollars worth being exported
in the II months ending with May,
indicating that the total for the full
fiscal year will approximate 600 mil
lion, against $50 million in the
fiscal year 1910, and 481 million in
the former high record year, 1907.
This very large increase in the value
of the cotton exports in the fiscal
year 1911 over that of any earlier
year is due chiefly to the high prices,
the quantity of cotton exported in
1911 being materially less than in
1909 or 1907, while the value will
exceed by more than 100 million
dollars that of the years in which
the quantity was greater than in
i 1911. The average export price of
domestic cotton in May, 1911 was
ISL cents per pound, and for the
months ending with May, 14.5 cents
per pound; against 1872 cents in the
cotton year 1910; IL cents in 1904;
ia cents in 1908; and less than 6
cents per pound in 1895, 1898 and
1899, these figures being in all
cases for the cotton year ending with
August 31st.
Meat and dairy products also show
a marked increase in value of ex-
ports in the fiscal year 1911, when
compared with the Immediately pre-
ceeding year, being for the II
months ending with May 1851 mil
lion dollars; against 100 million in
the same months of last year; and
for the single month of May, 1515
million dollars, against million for
the corresponding month of last
year. This increase is due in nearly
all cases to larger quantities, the
prices being in most cases lower
than last year. For example the
average export price of bacon in the
month of May, 1911, is 1913 cents
per pound; against 1873 cents pei
pound in May OF last year; hams
11.S cents per pound, against lac
cents in May a year ago; lard 90
cents per pound, against 1877 cents
in the corresponding month last year
butter, 20.07 cents per pond, against
255 cents in May year ago; anG
cheese, Ills cents per pound, against
1876 cents in May last year.
J Other articles showing an increase
in value of exports in the fiscal veal
1911 over that of the corresponding
period of the preceding fiscal yea
are fruits, % million dollars. agains
) Tx million a year ago; corn. 8;
> million. against "a million in tn,
corresponding period of 1910, while
? cotton seed oil. oil cake and meal
t and flour also show slight advances
5 in the total value of exports whel
t compared with the corresponding
4 period of last year, though whea
Y shows a marked decline in the /
: months ending with May, 1911, be
ing but zig million dollars in value
against AZ Is million in the CORES
ponding months OF 1910.
Europe is, of course, the chic
n purchaser of these exports of farT
e products. Most of the cotton goes t
e Europe. comparatively small quaint
ties, however, going TO Canada an
Japan, and Europe is also the chic
lpuStpmar for whaaf rpttpn Spad nj