Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-01-11
Imports and Exports Of Potatoes, 1907.
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1871
| The recent announcement that large
quantities of potatoes are being i'm.
ported into the United States lends
interest to a statement prepared by
the Bureau of Statistics, Department
OF Commerce and Labor, showing the
imports and exports of potatoes dur.
ing term Of years. While the pro.
ductlon OF potatoes in the United
States is usually sufficient to meet the
requirements Of its population, there
have been a number of occasions fol.
lowing short crops in the United
States on which considerable quaint.
ties were imported. On other occa-
sions, when there were shortages
abroad and large crops in the United
States considerable quantities were
exported The total imports of 20
tatoes into the United States in the
last ten years aggregated 22,S45,624
bushels, valued at $1O,9S5,770 or about
4S cents per bushel, this valuation be-
lug 3ased upon thu Wholesale market
price il the coun: ri S from which inl-
porrec and does rot thercf,:re. include
the cost Of transportation or duties
paid, the rate of duty being Is cents
per bushel of 60 pounds both under
the present law and it's immediate
predecessor. The exports OF pota-
toes from the United States during
the same decade amounted to 10000
5e6 bushels, valued at sS,413,675 an
average of II cents per bushel.
Potatoes imported into the United
States come chiefly from Canada,
Mexico, and Bermuda in America,
and Scotland, England, Ireland, Ger
many and France in Europe while in
recent years small quantities. have al
so been brought from China, Australia
and the Canary Islands.
The potatoes exported go chiefly to
the West Indies, Central America and
Canada, the largest quantities usually
to Cuba, Canada and Panama and less
er quantities to other Central Ameri-
can States and the West Indian Is
lands. Small quantities have also
been sent in recent years to China,
Hongkong British Guiana, the Philip
pine Islands, French Oceania and cer:5
tain of the South American countries,
but practically none to Europe which,
although a large consumer of pota-
toes, is also a large producer.
The worlds potato crop, so far as
it can be measured statistically, runs
between and 6 billion bushels per
annum, but these figures do not in
clude the production of China, North
Africa, and most of South America,
the original home of the potato, which
was found under cultivation in South
America by the Spanish discoverers
and transplanted to Spain and thence
to other parts of Europe. Germany
is by far the largest single producer of
potatoes, her total crop for 1909 the
latest available figures, being 1,716
million bushels, against LIB million
in European Russia, 613 million in
France 430 million in Austria, 1874 mill
lion in Hungary, 1877 million in Great
Britain, 12O million in Ireland, 80 mil
lion in Canada, and 377 million in the
United States.
New York is the largest potato-pro-
ducing state in the United States, her
product in 1910 being "A 1-2 million
bushels, against 35 million in Mfchi-
gan, % million in Maine, % million in
Pennsylvania, 25 million in Wiscon-
sin, Is million in Ohio, IL 2-3 million
in Illinois, II IA million in Iowa, and
about 10 million bushels each in Min
nesota and New Jersey, while prac-
tically all the remaining states are;
represented with totals ranging from
one million to 8 million bushels each.
The largest importation of potatoes
during the past decade occurred in
1909, being 1-3 million bushels; the !
largest exports Of the decade occurred
in 1911, being 1-3 million bushels.
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Thief River Falls Girl Weds.
Last Sunda yafternoon at the home
Of the brides parents at 8 o'clock
occurred the marriage Of Miss Lillian
Mussey, the only daughter Of Editor!
and Mrs. H. 3. Mussey, to Edward Vi