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Show SOME INTERESTING FIGURES Washington, July 21, (Special Correspondence.) Correspond-ence.) If the American farmer has a fancy for figures, he can find some interesting facts set forth in statistics contained in a pamphlet just Issued by the department of commerce under the title: "Trade of the United States with othei American Countries, 1913-1914. ' Unfortunately, the statistics deal with a fiscal year, and not with a period fixed by changes in eocnomic policies. pol-icies. The figures regarding imports deal with the year ending with June 20, in each instance, whereas the new tariff law, "which exerts so large an influence upon imports, went into effect early in October, 1913. It is therefore apparent that the statistics for 1913 include a full twelve months undor a Republican Re-publican tariff while the figures for 1914 cover three months of Republican tariff and nine months of Democratic rates on imports. As the European war did not break out until August, 1914, the commercial transactions covered by this bulletin were entirely free from any war influence. in-fluence. A few illustrations of changes in imports im-ports of farm products will be illuminative. In 1913 Canadian farmers sold to buyers in the United States cattle, horses, sheep, etc. to the value of a little more than $1,500,000 but in 191.4 they cut into the market of the American farmer to the extent of $11,000,000. That gain of $9,500,000 was enough to make quite a jingle in the pocket of the Canadian stockgrower. In 1913, Canadian farmers sold in American market only $2,750,000 worth of grain and flour but in 1914 they were able to ship in enough of the same commodities to take away $12,440,000 of good American money. That is $9,090,000 to the gain of the Canadian. Leather added another an-other $2,000,000 to the net gain of the Canadian producer. Wool imports from Canada gained $1,100,000 in 1914 as compared with 1913. Those four classes of commodities, livestock, grain, hides, and wool, constituting the foundation founda-tion of agriculture, yielded the Canadian producer pro-ducer a gain of over $22,000,000 in American markets mar-kets under Democratic as compared with Republican Re-publican tariff laws. But it was not Canadian farmers alone that profited by the reduction or removal of tariff duties on farm products. Mexican stockmen increased in-creased their sales in the United States about $5,500,000, $7,000,000 by sales of grain; nearly $6,000,000 by sales of meat and dairy products and $2,000,000 by sales of wool. Agricultural producers in those and other countries were aided in selling other products in American markets but the items mentioned above give the larger amounts of increased sales and serve to illustrate the manner In which reduced tariffs on agricultural imports throw the American Amer-ican farmer Into competition "with farmers of other nations. The war in Europe served to give these other countries a more profitable market mar-ket than the United States, but the increase of $42500,000 in agricultural imports from three nations, in a period of nine months of the new tariff, indicates what still greater injury would have been suffered by American producers had not the war interyened. The treasury statement at the close of the week, Saturday, July 10th, showed a net balance In the general fund of $73,963,615.53 as compared com-pared with a balance of $136,343,611.17 on the same day, two years ago, under Republican administration. ad-ministration. Revenues to July 10th, of this fiscal year amount to $14,064,907.80, and disbursements dis-bursements $25,306,064.25, leaving a deficit for the first ten days of this fiscal year of $11,241,-156.46. |