The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-01
HIGH RECORD IN
EGG EXPECTATION

Washington D. c, March LEX
portation 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 mill
lion dozen valued at pa 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 We're
sent to Hawaii and Porto Rico about
100000 dozen Meantime the importa-
tion of eggs in 1911 amounted to less
than one million dozen, valued at
about $l30,O0O
Trade currents in this article Of
commerce have shown 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 inn
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 million
dozen annually. Last year the i'm
ports were less than a million Dozen
while the exports, as above indicated,
were 1874 million dozen. The reduc-
tion 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
meree, and the imports of eggs which
had ranged as high as 16 million dozen
per annum, exceeding Is million in
the fiscal year 1890, dropped to mil
lion dozen in 1892, IL million dozen in
1894, less than ! million in 1896, and
quarter of million in 1899, since
which time the number seldom ex'
ceeded 100000 dozen and in 1911 to
liz 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 yeaT
1880, but $4,000 dozen; in 1890, $50,
000 dozen; in 1897, 1-3 million dozen;
in 1900, practically 6 million dozen;
in 1907, million dozen, and in the
calendar year 1911, as already indicat
ed, 1871 million dozen. valued at 81,
| 700, 600.
Cuba, Canada, Panama, and Mexico
are the chief countries to which eggs
are exported from the United States
The quantity exported in the fiscal yea,
1911 was, to Cuba, Az million dozen
valued at little less than l million
dollars; to Canada, 215 million dozen
valued at a nttle less than half mil
lion dollars; to Panama, a little more
than three-quarters of a million dozen
and to Mexico little less than three
quarters of a million dozen The re
mainder went chiefly to the West In
4 dian Islands and Central American
/ countries, practically none going t
Europe, although certain European
countries are large importers Of thi
class of merchandise, On the othe
hand, the bulk of the eggs importe'
lin the fiscal year 1911 came from Eng
land. which is itself a very large i'm
porter of eggs. OF the 1ls million
dozen eggs imported in the fiscal yea
1911. IA million dozen were from Eng
land and abouta quarter million iron
China and Hongkong. This item 0
eggs imported does not include tn
yolks brought from other countries
of which the quantity imported from
Canada amounted to 100000 pound
and from Germany $4,000 pounds il
the year ending June 30, 1911.
This large expectation Of eggs il
the face of the extremely high price
existing in the United States suggest
that prices of this class of merchar
disc must also be high in other part
of the world, and this is confirmed b
J consular reports reaching the depari
ment of commerce and labor which u
dicate that prices of eggs and othe
provisions are unusually high in Ent
[land, France, Austria, Germany, Spair
! Japan, and many other countries.