New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-14

ports Of condensed milk alone in 1917
amounted to s23,000,000, against SlZ'-
100000 in 1916 and s1,34l,0o0 in 1914.
Exports of Breadstuffs
OF breadstuffs, wheat alone shows a
total of 150,000000 bushels in 1917
l73, 100000 in 1916 and Ss,000,00o bush
els in 1914, while -four in 1917 is about
the same as in 1914. Corn exported in
1917 was 100000 buhels, against
3S,000,000 in 1916 and 100000 bush
els in 1914. Oats exported IN isIi
amounted to 100000 bushels, against
96,000,000 bushels in 1916 and l,eoO'VUo
in 1914.
The values in all cases are much
greater in 1917 than in 1914. Inc
total value of breadstuffs exported IN
1917 Is s575,000,000, against s4So,OO0,-
900 in 1916 and Sl65,000,000 in 1914
The total value of meat and dairy prod
ucts exported in 1917 is approximately
S400,000,000, against 1921 100000 IN
1916 and S146,000,000 in 1914. =,
Exports of foodstuffs in the fiscal
year 1917 exceed in value those OF any
earlier year in the history OF the
country, aggregating approximately
250,000,000, against S9SO,OOO,OOO IN
1916, 1902 100000 in 1915, S43l, 100000
in 1914, the year Immediately preced-
ing the war, and S590,000,OOO in 1898,
the high record year prior to the war.
Cotton Values High
The value of cotton manufactures
exported from the United States in the
three years of war is one-half as much
as in the twenty years before the war.
The value of cotton cloths alone eX-
ported in the fiscal year 1917 is nearly
three times as much, knit goods seven
times as much and cotton yarn eight
times as much as in the fiscal year
1914. The quantity of cotton cloths
exported in the fiscal year 1917 ex-
ceeds that of any earlier year except
the fiscal year 1906, when the demand
of China at the close Of the Russo
Japanese War was exceptionally heavy.
Even in cotton laces, of which the ex-
port value has been extremely small,
the total for 1917 exceeds 100000,
against less than one-quarter OF q
million in 1914. Cotton wearing ap-
parel, which prior to the war was
about Sl0,000,000 per annum, was in
the fiscal year 1917 over s30,0OO,OOO.
goods exported is not merely due to
higher prices. OF cotton cloths alone,
for example, the exports for the tlscal
wear 1917 are about 700,000000 yards,
against 397 200 in 1915, and in the
other classes of cotton manufactures
there has been a gain in quantity as
we'll as in value. In May of 1917, the
latest month for which details. are
available, the quantity of cotton cloths
exported is 100000 yards, against
100000 in 1915. Cotton yarn also
shows a large increase in expectation
since the beginning OF the war, having
amounted in 1917 to over So,OOO,OOo'
against $4,000 in 1914.
This increase has been chiefly
to our neighbors at the north and
south To Canada the exports OF cot
ton cloths alone in the fiscal year
1917 are over 100000 yards, against
100000 in the year before the war;
10 Central America 100000 yards,
against 100000 in 1914, and to South
America 17O,000,00O yards, against AZ
100000 in 1914.
Trade With Orient
To the Orient, which formerly was
our best market for cotton cloths, there
is a distinct falling off, due to the fact
that Japan is now manufacturing cot
ton goods largely for her Oriental
neighbors. The quantity of cotton
cloths exported from the United States
to Asia in 1914 (the year before the
war; was l25,000,000 yards and in 1917
but 3s,000,0O0 yards. Even to the Phil
ippines, which have been our largest
customer in recent years for cotton
goods, the total for the fiscal year
1917 is but 100000 yards, against
106, 900, 900 yards in the fiscal year 1915.
The Philippines still take more cotton
cloths from the United States than
does any other country, though the
values are less than those to Canada,
which took in the fiscal year 1917 cot
tons Of a higher price than those OF
many other countries, presumably
utilizing them for war purposes. This
is also true of the limited quantity of
American cotton cloths taken by Great
Britain. The 100000 yards Of cotton
cloth exported to Great Britain in the
fiscal year 1917 went at an average OF
about 80 cents a yard, those to Canada
at about 10 cents per yard and those
to other countries at an average OF 81
rents per ward,