The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-07-08
FIRST NEGOTIATIONS
North $42,ooo,ooo, Nearly Double
the Amount in 1908.

Washington. ID. c.. July S.--Fruits
are rapidly growing factor in the
foreign trade of the United States.
The value of fruits and nuts passing
through the custom houses of the
United States in the fiscal year just
ended approximates 80 million dol
|, lars, and Is twice as great as that of
! a decade ago. The exports of the
fiscal year 1913 amount to 81 mil
lion dollars, speaking in round terms
l,against Is million in 1903. decade
Fearller; and the imports approx
mate 42 million dollars against "a
Lmillion in 1903. These figures do
not include the trade with Hawaii
and Porto Rico, which sent to con-
tinental United States over 6 IL
million dollars worth of fruits and
nuts during the last fiscal year.
Fruits exported are chiefly apples.
prunes, apricots, raisins, and or
anges, and go largely to Europe and
North America; while those import
ed are chiefly bananas, lemons, div
es, currants, and grapes. The i'm
ports of nuts, almonds, walnuts, CO.
cocanuts, and cocanut meat, are
| lhClPaliy rum Tic lIOplSo.
| OF the 81 million dollars worth
of fruits exported during the year
| apples alone amounted to about IL
million dollars in value, of which
about million were in their natural
state and about million dried.
| Europe takes the bulk of apples,
both green and dried, having taken
| in 1912, for which period complete
| figures are at hand, over four-fifths
OF the total. England is by far the
largest purchaser of the fruit in the
natural state, having taken, in 1912,
"a million dollars worth of green
apples, against three-fourths of a
million dollars worth by Scotland,
three-fourths of million by Canada,
and one-half a million by Germany.
| OF the dried apples exported, Ger
many is by far the largest purchas-
er, having taken, in 1912, 2 l-3 mil
| lion dollars worth against l Il mill
lion dollars worth by the Neither
| lands and quarter of million dol
lars worth by Belgium. Prunes are
| the next largest item in the exports
of domestic fruits, amounting TO
over million dollars in value in
| 1913, and of these Germany is the
largest purchaser, having taken
about million dollars worth in
| 1912, against three-fourths OF a mil
lion dollars worth by Canada, a
half million dollars worth by France
half million dollars worth by Bel.
GUM, and a half million dollars
| worth by England The growth in
/ exports of prunes has been very
rapid, the quantity exported in the
current year amounting to 10 mil
| lion pounds against &C million in
1903, a decade earlier Raisins show
still larger growth in exports, the
quantity exported in 1913 being
! about 2S million pounds against Az
million in 1903 Canada takes more
| than one-half of the total exporta-
tons. Canned fruits exported
| amount to about 6 millions dollars
worth in 1913, and these go chiefly
to Europe
Fruit imports, as already indicat-
| ed, are chiefly bananas, lemons,
| olives, currants, and grapes; the
banana imports for the fiscal year
Just closed amounting to about IA
| million dollars and coming princi-
pally from Central America and the
West Indies. Figures for 1912,
which do not differ materially from
those of 1913, show from Jamaica 4
million dollars worth, Costa RIGA
"a million, Honduras a little over
million, Panama a little over 2 mil
lion, Cuba little less than a mil
| lion, and Colombia little less than
half million dollars worth The
value of bananas imported was, in
1890, 1-2 million dollars; in 1900
little less than million; and in
1913 as above indicated, approx
mately IA million. The lemon i'm.
ports, which amount to between
| and 4 million dollars annually, come
almost exclusively from Italy. while
nearly three-fourths OF the mil
| lion dollars worth OF olives import
ed come from Spain. The million
and half dollars worth of currants
imported come principally from
Greece. the l IL million dollars
worth of grapes chiefly from Spain,
the nearly a million dollars worth
of figs, and the half million dollars
worth of dates chiefly from Turkey
in Asia. OF the approximately II
| million dollars worth of nuts i'm.
| ported, almonds are the largest
single item, amounting TO over mil
lion dollars in value, and these
come chiefly from Spain. The ap-
proximately 2 million dollars worth
of Cocanuts in the shell come chief.
ly from the West Indies and Cen
tral America, Jamaica and Trinidad
supplying early one million dollars
worth, Honduras a quarter of a mil
lion dollars worth, and Colombia a
quarter of a million dollars worth.
or the 2 million dollars worth of
cocanut meat, broken Tor "copra")
imported, about one-half came from
the Philippine Islands and approx.
mately a half million dollars worth
from French Oceania.
The fruits and nuts. received in
continental United States from its
noncontiguous territories-Porto
Rico, Hawaii. and the Philippine Is
lands-amount in value to over s
million dollars year. of which ap-
proximately 4 million come from
Hawaii tchiefy canned pineapples).
over 3 million dollars, worth from
Porto Rico (chiehy oranges and
pineapples), and approximately
million dollars worth from the
Philippine Islands (chiefly cocanut
meat, broken, commercially known
as "conraul