Show TIO S SI I f FARM M SU PLUS Conservative Estimate te of Pro Products Products Products ducts Value at il Four Billion Bilon Five 1 Ic Hundred Millions NEARLY A BILLION BILLON EXPORTED Great Takes boitt half ulf monya lan mIlan i a About Five Ic Cent May 22 The depart department ment 1111 of ot agriculture ha has ln Issued a report on Tho he Farm 1 Surplus Im prepared prepared pre pro pared by h George IC holmes Holm A chief of ot the division of ot foreign markets It I given goll J as n a 10 eating to toof toot of ot tho the alue lue of o the farm is ot of this country ted fed od to live 10 stock In lii 1003 1903 on the tho basis of Q the tho census valuation Ion tion ton The Tho value of o the tho lie exported farm far arm pro products ducts of ot this country watt icat nl In iii 1003 1903 ISIS 1878 78 and tho highest value ahue reached during the last lant 11 It 1 years was vas in tn 1001 duo dun chiefly to 10 cotton colon The ho value of ot the Iho exported farm urn pro ducts of ot this thin country IH Is concentrated mostly 10 t in principal products In 1001 cotton lulon Constituted con 30 0 per pH tent cent grain amid grain products 26 25 6 iii r and live animals lIt H 24 per cent equalling more moore 1010 tItan than 56 6 p per er r cent celt of ot the exports of ot farm Iam ansi last lant year tobacco whoso hose s exports were Vero valued rit at fi more mor tItan than oil cako nail and oil all 1 meal mai 9 anti and n nuts nutH I II there mote 11 than 0 nail and ant ant cAun Ile oils ois more miami gives lv n u a total of eight dunces classes of pro each cacti with wih an In export 1110 of ot morn more than that comprise al iti almost fl 1903 1003 most IMst 96 16 per ller er cent of ot tIlt fht farm exports of or COTTON 1 within recent years ending at 11 1903 the cotton exports have avo been between three thre and four our billion pounds and the thu exported fraction of tIme tho crop has hilI been hool between bel 63 and 71 7 peg Pr Jr cent celli for lor a n long lon series of yearn The fraction of ot the thu wheat crop rop ox ex exported ported In the tho doz dozen deiGn n years hits him been Jeon about 31 to 41 H per fC cent and the tho exported wheat hrat and M wheat wh nl Hour have 11 somewhat more than enl bushels since 1897 which period for to many 11 years ears the quantity was wan 1 usually u ual to 10 IlsA less Only n a emal emul of ot the tho corn crop Is la exported nn ns earn corn Or Ito tho highest l per U II 1 per iter cent being eln for or 1898 1598 NotwIthstanding tho tIm smell percentage tile the 11 bushels teach to The rIte beef heet exports weighed 3 pork lark lorl exports Land laid exports weighed oleo till bIt hl exports pounds lun 18 and Ind tobacco Huter and aM cheese ChelM exports have hivo de tIC decidedly declined within two or three years The report 10 luSt IH within a It 1 few ow years the of o nn an 11 enormous ox tension df orchard planting will wi begin he ln to In It bo I Ii shown and seine of these thIO results ma mn be 10 In a n fruit sur our surplus plus for or export ex pori The rho exports of o animal matter arc nrc tro los Ian losing lo loInG ing InG relatively with n a 1 corre carve corresponding correspondIng gain by I vegetable V matter matters Taking up Ull the destinations of o the the report the tho United Kingdom takes about Ger Oer Germany many about I oll oll and mul il France Tho The Netherlands antida ann a and Italy from volts 3 lo 10 a 5 6 per lid cent each oloh China In recent years tales taken a I mil mit million mi lion lon dollars 1011 1 T worth annually and they go Io to China Korea orea amid Green timid land Ireland Iceland otner remote por par portions Ions of tile the rein from 85 55 5 to 90 per iter rent remit of ot the tho th total ROCS goes to l 6 G to 0 7 1 per cent celt to North America antI and less titan than 2 per POl cent cont each cacti to 10 di Asia sIa Bouth HOlth America 11 Africa The Tho report also takes up ut the thO compe competition titian of ot this thui country In 11 foreign mar amy mol kots showing that butt this country fur furnishes 32 per mr cent of nt the Iho United King 1 domB of ot farm Irm products thus thul leading I aling In iii 11 these there Imports Tho rho United States lies has a I long lon lead head I over OH Its 11 competitors as ns a it purveyor of oC meat lel and input mell products Ir and nuth live hive Ivo Tint 11 ni trials IB Is II preeminently con cam conspicuous in ill tIm tho United Kingdoms Im mi Imports ports porto Of antI cotton but hUI Is I far Its 18 competItors competitor coton In 11 dairy iro ul 11 II In Herman Imports tIme tho ll Staten Slates with wilI 22 per Itel cent ent In hit all ni farm pro Po products ducts fiS OS per 1111 lt Cent In hO cereals oR oRbil barely bil of ot 1 I per cent of ot dairy Ir contributes the lie principal pal 11 portion of cut o tho the maize of ot the thc oil 01 cake cako and oil 01 cake cako meal hut but hit Is In wheat flour by b and makes pinkos n hare bare In burley barley anti and only U It I little over 3 I pOI per cent celt In fruits |