Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-27
SOME CURIosITIEs OF
 WORLD INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Announcement that a pig consignment Of butter from the other slGc Of the globe IS now crossing the Pacific from New Zealand 10 New York calls at;en- tion to the increasing detail in wh;cn the common products of the various sec lions of the world are now being inter changed. While We have been congrai- ulating the American COW upon the fat that she has since the beginning of tii2 war supplied a half billion dollars wor n of her products for the fore;gn trade, we now find that the COWS of other parts of the globe are quietly invading our own markets by unaccustomeJ l routes and that they have sent us ls0 million dollars worth of their prOdus's while We were sending 500 million dol lars worth Of our own dairy produc $ to other markets. Especially those rf | Europe. We sent 150 million dollars ! worth Of butter. cheese, condensed milk | and other dairy products out Of the | country in 1919. and in the following year, 1920. Australia. New Zealand. | Argentina. Brazil Colombia. Mex;>o | Canada and certain European countries sent us 90 million dollars worth of the products of their dairy industries. And | the reports of big shipments now on thi | way from the dairy farms of New Zea. 1 land indicate that the great dairy in-
 
 ] even the equator and the long trip | across the Pacific a bar to a perma- l nent movement of their products to our markets, despite the fact that the ou.. | turn of our butter. cheese and con. | densed milk factories aggregated ovel i billion dollars value in the last cen, | sus year. 1919, while the details of that
 census shows that we produced in l9i. 6.s94 100000 gallons of milk, i.s2S1
 100000 pounds of butter and 4So,o0e, ,o0t pounds of cheese. A little more thar
 one-half of the butter produced in tn
 United States is the product of tht
 factories and the remainder from thu
 farms. while of the cheese products o
 the country about nine-tenths are C
 factory production.
 ! Eggs are another class of farm pro
 ducts which are being sent from th
 other side of the globe to this greates
 agricultural country of the world Gu
 importation of eggs in the single yea
 1921 was over million dozen in tn
 natural state. most of them conin
 from China, Japan and Australia, whil frozen or dried eggs entering the coun try were also chiefly from China. an have averaged about 5 million dollar 8 year value. despite the fact that tn number of eggs supplied by the Amer ican hen now averages about 20 billio
 year.
 l Peanuts are another example of tn free interchange of articles considere of minor importance. The Unite States produces from s5.O00,Ooo. to 50 . 100000 bushels a year. yet our impoi [ tation of peanuts in the past decade hs ? amounted in the past decade hs t amounted to 27 million dollars valH | and of peanut oil 54 million dollar while our exports of peanuts in n s same period were nearly 10 millio l dollars though of peanut oil the quaI | tity exported was comparatively sma Bristles are still another curiosity n international trade. We are the world 1 greatest producer of swine and ser n millions Of them to slaughter eyei Il year, yet the quality of the bristles ,. the razor back swine of the Orie' e differs so much from that of the rean' l. American hog that our importation e bristles, chiefly for use in the man t facture of brushes. now ranges from r to 10 million dollars every year al !. has in the past decade totaled nearly I, million dollars. a very large proport' l. coming to us from China.
 In many other articles we are co 'e stantly bringing into the country co
 siderable quantities of merchandise
 which we are already the worlds lar
 est producer. Our underground co E supply equals that of all the balan If of the world yet the northern border - the United States imports considered f. quantities of coal from Canada; we a 1. the worlds largest producer of copp to yet we import quantities Of copper ( lie pecialiy from South America. Mexi ,h and even the or1ent largely because of our better smeltins and refining faci n- ties; i; we are the worlds largest pl C. ducer, of petroleum yet we are bringi a large quantities constantly from Me
 co we hold high rank as lumber a timber producing country yet we 2
 constantly importing lumber in Quan pt ties from our next-door neighbor. Car