Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-08-09

Farm Products in tho Export Trade
Of United States.

Washington, Aug. Especial:
American farmers contributed over
billion dollars worth OF merchandise.
or more than one-half OF the domes-
tic products exported from the Uni
ted States in the fiscal year just
ended. Of the high-record exporta-
tion Of $2,013,549.025 worth of
domestic merchandise in the fiscal
year, s1,024, 100000 represented the
value Of products drawn directly or
indirectly from the farm.
or the ten chief agricultural pro-
ducts exported. cotton leads with
total Of $685., 100000, the next larg-
est items being, in the order named,
meat and dairy products, 100000
900; breadstuffs. $124 100000; I'M
manufactured tobacco, $50 9,0OO,O0O;
fruits and nuts. $25,00O,000; oil
cake, $2O,0O0,000; cattle and other
live animals, $19.00O.O00 cotton
seed oil. s17.OO0.GOO; vegetables,
$500, 900, and hides and skins,
So. 900, ,000-thesc ten articles alone
showing total expectation for the
year Of S99O.00O,000. The remain
ing agricultural products exported
In sums ranging from $1,000, 900 to
100000, include Porto Rican cof-
fee, $4,000 900; grease. $4,000, 900;
glucose. s3,500,0OO; seeds, $780,
600; hops, 100000; ginseng and
other medicinal roots, $1,750,OOO /;
eggs, 1000; corn oil, $500
900; hay, 100000, and hair, a
little over $1,00O,000.
This expectation of $l,O24,OOO
worth Of farm products, while some
what larger than in the preceding
year, Is still below the record made
In 1907, when $1,050. 100000 worth
Of merchandise OF that class left the
country. Comparing the 1911 ex-
ports with those Of 1907, cotton in
creased from $4S1. 100000 in 1907
to $685., 100000 in the year Just end
ed. This increase. however, is solely
due to higher prices prevailing in
1911, since in that year but 4.034,-
100000 pounds were exported, COM
pared with 4,51S,O0O.OO0 pounds in
1907. In fact, cotton prices show a
steady upward tendency, the average
export price for the fiscal year 1911
Ga 12c. per pound) being the high
est since 1878. Hog products have
decreased in value Of exports from
S124, 100000 in 1907 to $10O,OOO,-
600 in 1911; beef products, from
$39,000,000 to 100000, and
butter and cheese. from $4,5OO,O0O
to S2,500.000. Cattle and other an
'mals also share in the decreasing
tendency, their exports having fallen
from 100000 in 1907 to s19.-
100000 In 1911. Breadstuffs show
a marked decline, from $263, 100000
In 1900 to 1874 100000 in 1907 and
100000 in the year just ended.
This loss occurs chiefly in wheat and
wheat -four since corn exports in
1911 were 100000 in value,
compared with 25.OO0,00O in 1910.
while those OF wheat and -four as
whole showed in 1911 a total Of
only $1,000 900, compared with
$95,OO0,O00 in 1910 and sl22,00O,-
600 in 1907.
Tobacco, fruits, nuts and vegeta-
Dies, however. have moved counter
10 the general downward trend in the
movement OF farm products, each of
these classes showing gains not only
over 1910. 5nt also over the high
rccoro year 1907. Exports Of tobacco
increased from 1913 100000 in 1907
to $50 900 in 1911; those Of
traits and nuts from $l7.50O, 900 TO
S24,"Oo,oo0, ana those OF Vegetables
from $A,O0O,00O to $4,000 oOo