Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-14
UNITED STATES RICE
 EXPORTS FREAK ALL REcoRpST

ENFOhI . 'EHERN RLL hESOhGS
 Rice exports from the United States in 1921 wiI be far in excess of any eaf-. Her history of our rice exportatone. the quantity exported in seven months ending with JUIy having been 37S mil lion DO q. dsaIlSt 3?s Il uIio ::. ttss full calendar year 1920 which broke the record in the rice exports of the United States. Pres-Lt indications are that the exports of rice i:i the calea dar year 1921 will approximate t50 pounds against 393 million in 1920, 15s million in 1918. 6S million in 1915, and 2S million in the year Immediately pre- ceding the war, 1913. Thus, the ex- ports in 1921 will be about 25 times as much as in the year preceding the war and approximately 50 per cent above the former hIgh record year 1920. Even this big total for 1921 does not include the shipments to Porto klco. and Hawaii, our own islands. which win approximate 15o million pounds and bring the grand total of American rice passing out of ouF ports in 1921 up to sG0 million pounds, or about 4O per cent Of the crop Of 1920.
 The value of the 1921 shipments to foreign countries and our own islAnde will be about z5 million dollars not hllHSAdnuinS lle ldCl lldI me 6XpOTl prices Of rice in July, 1921 were only about Sc per pound against 1oc in the same month of last year.
 This big eXportation of rice as cona- pared with former years. is, of course due to enormous increases in our do- nestle production, which advanced from 10 million bushels in 1903 to 25 { million in 1910 and 52 million in ls2e, while the farm value increased from I million dollars in 1900 to r million fl. 1910 and no million in 1919, the lat , est year for which value figures are available. Meantime, imports have fall en from 2e0 million pounds in the year immediately preceding the war and 364 million in the fiscal year 1919, to 97 million pounds in the fiscal year 1921, while the average import price Of rice fro mabroad has len to one-haie ; that of a year ago. Of the 393.oo0 900 pounds exported in 1920, si milhok went to Cuba, 54 millIon to GerIuany, 5 million to Greece, 20 million to Bel gium,, 20 million to France. 24 mil lion to Canada, i9 million to Argen- { tina, F million to Chile and 31 mil lion to the Dutch East Indies.
 | This big increase in our experts and corresponding reduction in imports, aud the Banks statement, is due to raa
 
 chief rice producing country of tns
 Occident, though about nine-tentbs o4 the rice crop of the globe is still pro- duced in the Orient. Our product which TOW runs at nearly two billion pou5ds
 year depressed in termE Of hell- ed rice) Is double that of ltaiy, feur times that of Spain. and ten times
 that of Brazil, tho other rice produC- ing cou1tries of the Occidental world. Our increase of 400 per ceilt in licS production since 1900 has grown o1t of sys:em peculiar to tAis count r. of produ ing rice in a malIfa. ia w atch
 ordinary fG-m machinery can be utiii-- cd. Rice can orgy flourish on wet land SC wet that a few years ago 1t was . dlscoverea shat c,Itain Ian Is in TeJ ae Arkansas, Louisiana and elsewhere : could be prepared with the usual As- ricultural machinery, the rico also
 planted by machinery, the lands then i. flooded from nearby streams UT aste- sian wells, and the water drained off as the rice approached maturity, ard ordinary reaping-and threshing ma chimes used in harvesting tho crop, , This revolutionized rice growing In the United States, and the producing area was expanded from the Caroiinas and 1, Georgia to the Mississippi Valley, Ar kansas, and Texas and recently to eer- tain areas in California.
 , Even this big increase in our pro- duction, however, still leaves us far below certain Of the Oriental countries where rice is the chief article Of food for very dense population. Siam, for 2 example. produces over 5.o00, ,ovs pounds of rice year against our 2,- o00,C01.0o0 pounds; the Dutch East h. dies l,o0e,00O,0o0 Japan 17.0oo. .0e0, ,00I : and India 70.ee0. .o9o. GOO pounds, while China. which has TO official figures ot her crop probably exceeds India in pro-
 ducion, bring the worlds total crof
 approximately 2oe.coo. GOO. coo pounds |
 year, oD nearly as great a quantity al
 worlds wheat which average about T 225,oe:. pcs. ."a0 pounds per nnnuIn.