The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-08
HIGH RECORD IN
EGG EXPECTATION

portauOn OF eggs from the united
States last year, Notwithstanding high
prices. was the largest ever recorded.
While current market reports and cur
rent discussions OF the cost of living
indicate unusually high prices in the
domestic markets for this article of
consumption and commerce. the bu:
reau of statistics is reporting a larger
exploration in this line than ever be-
fore The number of eggs sent to
foreign countries in the year ending
with December, 1911, was 1874 mil
lion dozen valued at 2% million dol
lars, while the highest record of any
earlier calendar year was 81 million
dozen, valued at 1% million dollars in
1907. In addition to this, there were
sent to Hawaii and Porto Rico about
10000 dozen Meantime the importa-
tion of eggs in 1911 amounted to less
than one million dozen, valued at
about $1S0,OOO
Z Trade currents in this article of
commerce have shown a remarkable
change in recent years. Formerly the
importation of eggs was large and the
expectation small. A quarter of cen
tury ago an importation of 10 million
dozen eggs was not unusual, the i'm
ports of 1884, 1885, and 1886 having
in each year exceeded 16 million dozen
while the exports at that time averag-
ed but about one quarter of a million
dozen annually. Last year the inn
ports were less than a million dozen,
while the exports, as above indicated,
were 1874 million dozen. The reduc-
ton in the Importation of eggs oc-
Cured Immediately following the en-
actment of the tariff law of 1890 which
placed duty upon that article of COM
merce, and the imports of eggs which
had ranged as high as 16 million dozen
per annum, exceeding rs million in
the fiscal year 1890, dropped to mil
lion dozen in 1892, 1A million dozen in
1894, less than | million in 1896, and
quarter of a million in 1899, since
which time the number seldom ex-
ceeded 100000 dozen and in 1911 to
I115 million dozen In the calendar
year 1911, as above indicated, the to-
tai was slightly less than million. On
the export side, the number sent out of
the country was, in the calendar year
| 1880, but $4,000 dozen; in 1890, $780,
900 dozen; in 1897, 1-3 million dozen;
in 1900, practically 6 million dozen;
in 1907, Z million dozen. and in the
calendar year 1911, as already indicat-
ed, 1874 million dozen. valued at ST.
100000.
/ Cuba, Canada, Panama, and Mexico
are the chief countries to which eggs
are exported from the United States.
The quantity exported in the fiscal year
| 1911 was, to Cuba, Az million dozen,
valued at little less than l million
dollars; to Canada, 212 million dozen,
valued at a little less than a half mil
| lion dollars; to Panama, a little more
than three-quarters of million dozen,
and to Mexico little less than three
quarters of million dozen. The re-
mainder went chiefly to the West In
| dian islands and Central American
countries, practically none going to
Europe, although certain European
countries are large importers of this
class of merchandise. On the other
hand, the bulk of the eggs imported
in the fiscal year 1911 came from Eng
land, which is itself very large i'm
porter of eggs OF the ~ million
dozen eggs imported in the fiscal year
1911, IL million dozen were from Eng
land and abouta quarter million from
! China and Hongkong This item OF
eggs imported does not include the
yolks brought from other countries
of which the quantity imported from
Canada amounted to 100000 pounds
and from Germany 10000 pounds in
the year ending June 80, 1911.
This large expectation of eggs in
the face of the extremely high prices
existing in the United States suggests
that prices Of this class of mercaan
disc must also be high in other parts
of the world, and this is confirmed by
consular reports reaching the depart
ment of commerce and labor, which in
dieate that prices of eggs and other
provisions are unusually high in Eng
land. France. Austria, Germany, Spain
Japan, and many other countries.
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