Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-01-12

s>-sssNs'.11Sss1 S6NOAttvhs1 EsS J811 fEs
State had contributed to the comfort
| OF homes In other parts Of the world
our tea. our coffee, our corks, our ba
nanas. our camphor, our licorice, GU
pepper, nutmegs and other spices. ou
SILK, some of our cotton, q consider
able part Of our wool and, strange t.
say, some part of the onions, potato
toes, and cheese consumed IN tn,
United States are brought from othe]
countries and in many cases from thu
opposite side of the globe and out Of
the way parts Of the world.
Few people would suppose, for ex
ample, that this great agricultural
country imports onions, or potatoes
or clover seed, or honey; yet the val.
ue OF onions imported in 1907 and
1903 Was nearly a million dollars in
each year, and they came from Egypt,
Australia, Japan, the Canary Islands.
Uruguay, Cuba, the British West In
dies, Bermuda, Canada, Mexico, and
Spain. OF potatoes more than 3 1-2
million dollars worth were imported
in 1909, the largest contributing coun-
try being Scotland with over one mil
lion dollars worth, Ireland and Great
Britain, each three quarters of a mil
lion dollars worth, and the remainder
largely from European countries and,
in smaller quantities, from the British
west Indies, Australia, and even
China and Japan. Pepper, of course,
is not produced in the United States.
and 1t is not surprising, therefore,
that two million dollars worth is i'm
ported annually, much of it from the
Dutch East Indies, although largely
accredited to the Straits Settlements.
the southermost point of easern Asia
to which this merchandise is trans
shipped from the East Indian Islands.
NA0" - ~ wi uA y 5.oSO DIS Tie spice
Islands, while smaller quantities
come direct from Netherlands, the
country which has for so many years
the government of those
islands and controlled largely their
lines of production. Nutmegs, of which
the impOrtations amount to a quarter
dollars a year, are also drawn
chiefly from the "Spice Islands, or
the Dutch East Indies.
One would scarcely expect that
such an agricultural country as the
United States would find it necessary
% import clover seed, but the quantity
imported runs as high as 20 million
pounds a year, chiefly from Germany
and in smaller quantities from France
italy and Scotland Sausage castings,
which We scarcely expect to see i'm
'orted into a country slaughtering
cod animals in such large numbers
ire i1nported to the value OF from 2
Q . million dollars a year,.by far the
argest contributor being England,
rom which the importationsi in 1909
we're over 1-2 million dollars, the
emainder being from widely q scatter
d countries, from Germany, Turkey
n Europe, China, Australia and Tur-
ey in Asia. Natural gas is another
.rticle which we would scarcely ex-
ect to see imported, yet the importa-
ions run as high as $4,000 per an
ium, being piped across the river
rom Canada at or near Niagara Falls
Of the more commonly used articles
# which other parts of the world are
he chief source sugar is the larg-
st in value, it's importations ranging
bout 100 million dollars year from
oreign countries and 70 million dol
ars year from our own island pos
essions, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the
philippines. Nearly all of that com
ng from foreign countries is drawn
rom Cuba, which supplied us last fis-
al year with 3 #1-2 billion pounds val
ed at SO 70 million dollars. Of cot.
ee, the importations range from so
o Is million dollars a year and in ex-
optional years as high as 100 million
Nhe bulk of this comes from Brazil,
hough a considerable portion comes
rom Java, Mexico, Central America
nd the northern section Of South
America, and comparatively small
iuantity from Africa. The tea I'M
which amount to from u
0 18 million dollars year, come
'hiefly from Japan, China and India.
nuch of the latter, however, reaching
he United States by way of England.
One would scarcely expect to see
aw cotton imported into the United
states in view Of the fact that she