The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1920-06-05
PECANS DEMANDED
BY BRITISH, RE SAYS
American Trade Representative Ur-
ges Shipments of Paper
Shell Variety.

England offers an exceptional
market right now for American food,
especially fruit, says Edward Foley,
San Francisco lawyer who was chief
of the enforcement division of the
United States Food Administration
during the war, and who is serving
as agricultural trade commissioner
of the American Embassy at London
Mr.. Foley is in New Orleans on his
way home, but stopped off at several
points to start the ball of opportunity
rolling.
Mr.. Foley's special message to
Louisiana is to send over her surplus
of paper shell pecans. The British
know only the hard-shell, common
kind, and would pay the price for the
improved delicacy. In the same way
he encouraged Georgia to ship some
of her peach crop overseas. Abroad
they know only the hot-house veriety,
which are very expensive, to that the
profit would be large. He thinks
safe carriage could be insured by
adopting the method employed in
wrapping the forced fruit, which is
to wrap each peach separately in
wood-wool and cotton, after the man.
ner in which eggs are handled. There
are other opportunities just as at
tractive.
The scope of Mr.. Foley's office in
cludes mainly foodstuffs and cot
ton, marking the condition in which
American wares arrive, and watching
the markets for them. America is
already doing an enormous fruit busi-
ness in England, over 100000 bar
rels of apples coming in last season.
The only apple rival is Canada Eng
land is looking to this country for
sugar, which means the sweet is
scarcer there than on this side, with
no supply in sight for the near
future. The British have formed the
sacharine habit, two tablets to cup
of tea The stuff is sweeter than
sugar, but, said Mr.. Foley you know
that it is not sugar or in sugars
class" General conditions over there
have improved a lot, he commented,
but the low exchange rate is still
serious matter.
Cotton is the most interesting
subject with which we have to deal"
remarked Mr.. Foley. There is vol
untary tax of cents bale at all
ports to cover the cost of the cam
paign. The general impression is
that the time has come for Great
Britain to raise the cotton for her
own spindles. Conditions in Egypt
do not inspire continuance of the
hope of a source of supply in that
country. So new fields are being
sought especially along the Gold
Coast of Africa. England is worried
over the immense and rapid increase.
in the number of spindles in the
United States and JAPAN. and the
conviction prevails that they will
eventually absorb all the cotton
grown in America. The British idea
is first to find adaptable soil and
area, and attention will then be turn
ed to the matter of grades best to
raise"
The foregoing, taken from the
New Orleans Times-Picayune of Sun
days date, containing Mr. Foley's
message, can be applied to Mississip-
pi as well as to Louisiana, especially
to our own Gulf Coast, and The Echo
reproduces it for that purpose.
The very high value of the nut as
a source of protein, fat and starch
entities it to higher plane of USE
fulness than as dessert delicacy or