Evening journal., 1920-10-11
AMERICAN FARMER FED THE WORLD.

IL ural products were officially recorded exported
from this country during the nve-year war period is
shown by statistics gathered and published by the Re-
publican Publicity Association, through It's president Hon.
Jonathan Bourne Jr in setting forth phase OF the part
which he American farmers played in the winning Of the
World War He calls attention to the fact that in his adj
dress at the Minnesota State Fair Senator Warren G.
Harding, dwelling the Ordinary dull statistics. con-
cerning the dsparae increase OF city with rural popua
tons 1900" paid his tribute to the farmers In these
words rhe splendid part played by the farmers OF the
nation during the probiby will be understood
or fully appreciated by people They took TO them
selves the responsibility Of feeding not only own
people but also allies the The story Of
what they did written by who understands IT,
will furnish Of the glorious chapters in Amcri-
history"
With view TO presenting phase Of the part played
by agriculturaiss during the the following
ordinary dun statistics" have been delved from the official
figures Of the United States Departments OF Commerce.
showing exports The European broke out IN
The latter part OF July 1914 the Versailles treaty
signed by the penipotenaries June 2s 1919 Practically
this period includes nye fiscal yeaN Of foreign trade
i959i9 inclusive The figures do not include vast guam
Titles OF products supplied to armies while over
seas to devastated in Europe and those which, for
strategic not recorded in Official statistics
they left our ports
During these I'VE fiscal years, Mr.. Bourne says, the
value exported breadstuns s3is7OoOOOo They
included iO7OOOOOO bushels Of barley 5s0OO00O pounds
OF bread and biscuit 100000 bushels OF buckwheqt 2O9
10000 bushels corn 100000 barrels Of cornmeal isi
100000 bushels OF oats s0 100000 pounds OF oatmeal 61
100000 pounds Of sOOOOOO bushels Of rye 100000
barrels rye -four 100000 bushels OF wheat 9OOOOVO
barrels OF wheat nour and 10000 tons Of bran and mid
dlngs mill feed and malt sprouts. Vegetables toaled
si3i 100000 in value and included 100000 bushels OF
dried peas beans 100000 bushels Of potaoes g.
100000 pounds peanuts Seeds olaed value OF ss5OOoS
COO including i27OO0OOo pounds Of clover, timothy etc
rnaanl
bushels.
The meat and dairy products export bill was S276OOO
600 II included over iSOOOOOOOO pounds fresh beef
100000 fresh pork; 100000 Of muon 55OOO0OOO
Of bacon ham and shoulders; 3ii20OOO0O Of oleo mar
garne lard oic 950O00OO0 OF prepared meats The value
OF animals exported S299O0OOO0 including 100000 cat
tie; 5000 hogs over 100000 horses $4,000 mules S2
900 sheep Uncured hides and skins 79OO0OO pounds OF
dairy products exported O2OOOOOo pounds Of butter
900 OF cheese; i,7i3OOOOOO pounds OF milk 49,
10000 dozen egss.
Fruits came to s9ooOOOOOO which included 222OOOOOO
pounds Of dried apples, apricots and peaches 23OO0O
OF prunos 29i 100000 Of Also 77OOOO barrels
Of appes 950OO boxes emonsS 7S2s0OO boxes oranges
s3s6O0 worth OF berries and sisOOO worth OF canned
fruits.
or Sweets we exported 5e0O0oO0 pounds refined sugar;
100000 gallons srup and molasscs; 790oO0oO pounds
glucose and grape sugar. 100000 honey. Also 6sioO-
600 pounds Of table and other starch.
OF cotton we exported 302i6000 bales worth s2s22OO
ono; oil cake and oil cake meal 100000 pounds two
thirds OF which was coonseed oil cake; and vegetable
oils valued at si63526ooO included Q5SOOO pounds OF
coonseed oil.
The value Of tobacco exports s5O3OOOOOO in which
were included 2i22OOOO0O pounds OF manufactured
tobacco iS5OoOOO OF smoking and plus 100000 cigars
and 3iO0OO0oOo0 cigarettes.
These figures. aggregating roughly siOOOOOOOOO in
value OF officially agricultural exports testify
10 IN
came from American farmers.
In the course OF these operations the abored
under handcaps The cost plus system adopted
by the Wilson administration resulted in unheard OF
TO labor and in Turing large numbers OF hands from
the to the factories. II utterly impossible for
the farmers compete with government contractors in
wage scales and for every dollar which these cost plus
contractors paid in they received profit Of ten
cents from the government which raised It's funds for
discharging these obligations by Federal taxation. AZ
the time great many thousands Of young men
exempted from the draft the ground that they
engaged in essential industries while the youth employed
the farms and needed by the farmers to husband the
soil and reap the harvestsN were accorded no such
exemption.
or course the exhaustion OF soil fertility consequent
upon the fearful drafts farm lands during the past
i've years can be measured In dollars and CENTS nor
will be restored by the sli6oOOOoo spent by the admins
tralon on nitrate plants which have never produced a
pound Of product.
Senator Harding has pointed to the necessity for de-
Unite agricultural policy which will put end to
plotting agricultural for the benelt OF our
Industrial and commercial lie and he warns us that III
we to build up sesustaning agriculture here at
home the farmer must be protected FROM unfair com
petition from those countries where agriculture is still
being exploited and where the standards Of living the
farm are much lower Than here.
The Republican candidate MIR Bourne asserts, has
recty sensed the situation which threatens In 1913
The last protective year the value OF imports OF food
sluns aggregated sO6OO0OOO In 1920 fiscal year ended
June 90 they aggregated s5iOOOOOO increase OF
23 per cent while population increasing per cent
This was under the Democratic policy free trade
farm products TO which policy the party Of Mr. Cox has
once more acknowledged eaty the san Francisco plat
form To this policy Harding registers his unquali-