New Britain herald., 1919-01-23
UNITED STATES IS
 FEEDING THE WORLD
Over $2,OOO,O0O,OOo Worth of
 FoOdstufS Exported During 1918

Anyrv York Jan. 23-The United States is really feeding the world.' The total value of the foodstuffs, sent out of this country in the year just ended amounts, according to a com- pilation by The National City Bank of New York, to over $2,00O,0 ,000,O0O against an average of jess than $500.- 100000 per annum prior to the war. In fact the vTlue of foodstuffs export ed from the country in the decade pre- ceding the war averaged but $450. 0.000,- o0O per annum and never in any year prior to the war reached as much as $500. 100000. In the calendar year 1915, however, the first full year of the war it amounted to $1,012, 900, 900; in 1916 $1,105, 5,O0O,O0O; in 1917 $1,305,- 00O,O00 and in 1918 crossed the S2-
 900. 100000 line. Official figures of exports to foreign countries in the calendar year 1918 show a total of over $1.900. 100000 and when to this is added the amount sent on Govern ment vessels and not included in the official report of the Custom Houses plus those to our own colonies not classed as exports the grand total
 
 passing out of the United States in the calendar year 1918 will exceed $2,000, 0,000,000 or more than four tin9es the annual average in the de-
 cade preceding the war.
 While this large increase in the value of foodstuffs exported is due in some degree to the increased prices, the quantities also show very large increases. The total quantity of fresh beef, for example, exported in the calendar year 1918 amounts to ap- proximately 540,00O, 900 pounds against only 6,3O0,000 pounds in the R fiscal year 1914, all of which imme- diately preceded the war and is a much larger quantity than ever ex- ported in a single year, even in the highest record of the years in which I fresh beef was passing out of the United States in very large quantities. Bacon, in the calendar year 1918, x shows a total of over 1,000,000,00 900 pounds against less than 200, ,000,0O pounds in the year immediately pre- ceding the war, and aggregating more than twice as much as in any earlier year Condensed milk. of which the 8 exportations prior to the war never exceeded 21,0o0,000 pounds amounted S in 1918 to 553. 3.00O,000 pounds Of wheat, of which a large proportion was in 1918 sent in the form of flour, the total spared to foreign countries is far in excess of that of earlier years.
 While, of course, a large proportion of this increase occurs in movements to Europe, it does not follow that all of the increase is for the Allied coun- tries or to our own troops participant ing in the war. Of the condensed milk sent out of the country in the calen- dar year 1918, nearly 25,000,000 A pounds went to India against 7,000, 900 pounds in the fiscal year 1917; q 1 1,5o0.0O0 pounds in 1916 and only
 25, GOO pounds in the year preceding 2 the war, while the quantity "sent in 1918 to Cuba was over 30,000, 900 x pounds; to Straits Settlement over x 5000, 900 pounds; to Hongkong nearly
 100000 pounds; to Japan, over B., < 900, 900; to the Philippine Islands
 more than S,0O0,000 pounds and to
 British South Africa about 5,000,000
 pounds. Of refined sugar, we sent in
 1918 over 25,000.O0o pounds to Bel
 gium; over 100000 pounds to our
 near neighbor, Mexico; more than # ], 100000 pounds to Newfoundland.
 and approximately 100000 pounds to
 Bri6fsh Africa. Of canned salmon,
 the exportation to 1918 included A.
 000,000 pounds in Canada, about S.
 100000 pound to the Philippine
 Islands, and more than 10000
 pounds each to Australia and Chile,
 while Canada took from us in 1918
 over 12,000,000 pounds of prunes and
 about 3G,o00. 900 pounds of raisins.