Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-11-28

ANokSlAS anu nave UGGOulG tiL-
portant factors In the fruit exports
"a. of the Unite d
Big increase States, while a
in Production. comparatively few
years ago they
were equally important factors in the
frult imports. Figures compiled by
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce, department of commerce.
show 2S.00o,0OO pounds of raisins
valued at s1.500.oO0 and 100000
pounds Of prunes valued at s6,666.000
exported in the fiscal year 1913. In
1908 the exports of raisins only
amounted to 4,3S3.OO0 pounds, and in
1898 (the first year in which they
were separately shown as an article OF
exportation) but 5000 900 pounds; the
exports of prunes in 1908 were 66,000.-
900 pounds, and in 1898, 100000
The growth in the exports of raisins
has been from 100000 pounds in 1898
TO 2S.OO0,000 in 1913, and in those of
prunes from 100000 pounds in 1898
to 11S,000,000 in 1918 Imports of
those articles meantime have CORE
spondlngly decreased. The quantity
of raisins imported in 1898 was o.
100000 pounds; in 1908. 6,750,000, and
in 1913. 100000; and of prunes, in
1893, 6,5OO,000 pounds; in 1908, 50G
600, and in 1913, 100000 pounds
This change in the import and ex-
port trade of these two classes of
fruits is due to the rapid increase in
production in the west coast states,
where the production of raisins has
grown from 1888, 900 pounds in 1879
to 100000 in 1889, 100000 in
1899, and 140,000000 in 1909; and of
prunes, from 100000 pounds in 1889
to 113,000,O00 in 1899 and 100000
in 1909, these figures of production be-
ing in all cases in very round terms.
The secretary Of agriculture has just
published rules and regulations gov
erning the importa-
Foreign Meat ton of meat and
RenIIIatinns meat food products
to carry out the
meat section of the tariff act approved
on October g.
The regulations provide for foreign
Qualifications as to ante-mortem and
post-mortem inspection in countries in
which the animals are slaughtered. In
addition, meats in countries will be in
spected by the department of agricul-
ture at ports of entry before admis-
sion. Attached to the regulations is
full list of veterinary inspectors in
foreign countries whose certificates
are acceptable to the United States.
The regulations also place foreign
meats after entry into the United
States on the same basis as domestic
meats Heretofore imported meats
have been governed entirely by the
food and drugs act and have been ex-
cluded from the establishments under
the inspection of the bureau of animal
industry under the meat inspection
act Under the new regulations i'm
ported meats are placed under the
meat inspection act after entry and
thus are admitted to federally inspect
ed establishments and are governed
heretofore has surrounded interstate
commerce in domestic meats. The gen
eral rule is that no meats are diseased,
contain harmful dyes, chemicals, pre-
servatives, or other ingredients which
render such meat or meat product un-
sound, unhealthful, unwholesome, or
unfit for human food will be admitted.
Potato growers in the United States
are informed by the department of ag-
riculture that it is
Fight Against hoped that a pota-
Potato Pest. to disease pre va.
rope and in Canada may be kept out
of the United States by quarantine
measures. This disease is known as
"powdery scab.'
This disease is reported to be wide
ly prevalent in Ireland and Scotland,
where there is this year large crop
of potatoes, which the growers would
like to export to this country If they
would be admitted.
A large mass meeting was recently
held in Belfast, Ireland, to protest
against the maintenance of the potato
quarantine by the American govern
ment, and resolutions were passed tes-
tifying to the freedom of the Irish
crop from potato wart and suggesting
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