The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-03-05
H2g1
Are Exported in Larger Num-
bers Than Ever in the
Country's History.

.
asst year, Notwithstanding highl
prices, was the largest ever recorded
While current market reports and
current discussions of the cost OF !
living indicate unusually high prices
in the domestic markets for this ar
ticle of consumption and commerce.
the Bureau Of Statistics, Department
Of Commerce and Labor, is reporting
a larger expectation In this line than
ever before. The number Of eggs sent
to foreign countries in the year end
ing with December, 1911, was tHir-
teen and one-quarter million dozen
valued at two and three-quarter mil
lion dollars, while the highest record
of any earlier calendar year was
eight and one-fourth million dozen
Saiuod at one and threelfourths mil.
lion dollars, in 1907. In addition to
this, there were sent to Hawaii and
Porto Rico about 10000 dozen. Mean
time the importation of eggs in 1911
amounted to less than one million
dozen, valued at about $4,000.
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
a century ago an importation of IF
teen million dozen eggs was not un-
usual, the imports of 1884, 1886, and
1886 having in each year exceeded
sixteen million dozen, while the ex-
ports at that time averaged but about
one quarter of million dozen an
nually. Last year the imports were
less than a million dozen, while the
exports, as above indicated, were
thirteen and one-fourth million dozen.
The reduction in the importation of
eggs occurred Immediately following
the enactment of the tariff law of 1890
which placed a duty upon that article
of commerce, and the imports of eggs
which had ranged as high as sixteen
million dozen per annum, exceeding
fifteen, million in. the fiscal year 1880,
dropped to four million dozen IN 1892
one and three-fourths million dozen
in 1894, less than one million in 1896,
and a quarter of a million in 1892
since which time the number seldom
exceeded 100000 dozen until 1910,
when the number imported increased
to over 100000 dozen and in 1911 to
one and one-half million dozen. In
the calendar year 1911, as above in!
dicated, the total was slightly less
than one million. On the export side.
the number sent out of the country
was, in the calendar year 1880, but
$4,000 dozen; in 1890, 100000 dozen;
in 1897, one and one-third million
dozen; in 1900, practically six mil
lion dozen; in 1907, seven million
dozen, and in the calendar year. 1911.
as already indicated, thirteen and one
fourth million dozen, valued at 81
100000.
Cuba, Canada, Panama, and Mex
leo are the chief countries to which
eggs are exported from the United
States. The quantity exported in the
fiscal year 1911 was, to Cuba, four
and one-half million dozen, valued at
a little less than one million dollars;
to Canada, two and one-half million
dozen, valued at a. little less than a
half million dollars; to Panama, a
little more than three-quatrers of a
million dozen. and to Mexico little
less than three-quarters of million
dozen. The remainder went chiefly
to the Nest Indian islands and Cen
trail American countries, practically
none going to Europe, although GER
tain European countries are large
importers of this class of merchan-
disc. On the other hand, the bulk
of the eggs imported in the fiscal
year 1911 came from England which
is itself a very large importer of
eggs. OF the one and one-half million
dozen eggs imported in the fiscal year,
1911, one and one-half dozen were
from England and about a quarter OF
a million from China and Hongkong.
This item of eggs imported does not
include the yolks brought from other
of which the quantity i'm
ported from Canada amounted 70
$4,000 pounds and from Germany
"a. 900 pounds in the year ending June
SO,1911.
This large expectation of eggs in
the face Of the extremely high prices
existing in the United States sug-
gests that prices of this class-of mer-
,handise must also be high in other
parts of the world, and this is con.
frmed by consular reports reaching
the Department Of Commerce and
Labor, which indicate that prices OF