The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-07-27
EXPORTS RUiNG 1911.

| The farmer and the manufacturer
shared about equally in the remark
able growth in exports which char
acterized the fiscal year just ended.
The total increase in exports was SO4
million dollars when compared with
the Immediately preceding year, be-
ing a larger gain than ever before
shown in a single year of our expo t
trade. Of this gain of 3O4 million
dollars, manufacturers as whole
supplied 14O million dollars; cotton
about l35 millions; meat and dairy
products about 10 millions; corn ap-
proXimately 10 millions; food animals
IL millions; -four about 21a millions,
while wheat shows a marked decline.
Cotton is king in the exports of pro-
ducts of agriculture, the value export
ed during the year being 5S5 million
dollars, by far the largest total ever
shown in the cotton export trade,
against $50 millions in 1910 and 4S1
millions in 1907, the former high rec
ord year. Meat and dairy products
show a total of Appropriated $50 mil
lion dollars, against 131 millions last
year, but materially less than in GER
tain earlier years in which the total
ranged as high as 2O2 million dollars
in 1907 and 211 millions in 1906. Ford
animals show a total of 13 million dol
| lars against little less than IL mil
| lions last year, but much below the
| figures OF earlier years, when the to-
tai figures OF food animals exceeded
40 million dollars in the high record
year 1906. Flour amounted to approx
imately so million dollars in value,
against Az millions last year, but
much less than in certain earlier
years, the high record in -four ex-
ports in 1893 showing a total of ap-
proximateiy 1912 million dollars.
One peculiar feature of the cotton
export trade is found in the fact that
although the value exceeded by more
than 100 million dollars that OF any
earlier year the quantity exported
was less than in several years. The
quantity of cotton exported in the ifs
cal year 1911 was about 4,029 million
pounds, against 4,44S million pounds
in 1909 and 4,51S million pounds in
1907, yet the value in 1911 was $50
million dollars against 417h millions
in 1909 and 481 millions in 1907.
In manufactures the increase in The
group manufactures ready for con-
sumption is about 100 million dollars
and in the group manufactures for
further use in manufacturing" the in
crease is approximately 40 million
dollars; these figures being subject to
slight revision since the full returns
for the closing month of the year have
not yet reached the Bureau or Sta
tistics of the Department OF Com
merce and Labor, from whose returns
the accompanying statements are
compiled.
The increase in manufactures Is ap-
parent in large number of articles.
Agricultural implements as a whole
show an increase of about 8 million
dollars; mowers and reapers alone
about million dollars; plows and
cultivators about 2R millions; pig
copper about Is millions; lumber
about millions; iron and steel man.
ufactures as a whole an increase of
about AZ million dollars, while the de-
tails OF iron and steel show for sheets
and plates about million dollars in.
crease; structural iron and steel about
q millions; metal working machinery
about 5 millions; wire about 2 mil.
lions; electrical machinery about 2
millions; mining machinery nearly 2
millions; locomotives over a million;
traction engines more than a million,
while in other articles not classed un.
der the general title OF iron and
steel manufactures, automobiles show
gain of 3 million dollars; railway
cars about millions; electrical ap.
pliances about millions, and napthas
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