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Show For eio 11 31 aliens Buy American Ifeffs I .... ijlule thill Hie wil-;;t, (l.i;Li'iluil ion ,'iinl I lie mo;;t rapid pTowl li oertii :;. 'J liey went in lXiO to II! Kiiiopeun coiin. tries, all the colonies find inland.'! of the ( 'aiililienn urea, 1) South Allien, can ciiuiiI l ie:;, a dozen coinil rii col. oiiie.'i and islands in Asia and Oceania, Ocean-ia, and a limited number in Africa. This new development, in the export of what was a few year nj;' considered consider-ed a "nrjtligilili? factor" in our export ex-port trade illustrates, says the Trade Ilecord, the constant increase in the variety and value of food materials which the United Slates is placing upon the world markets and the aid which these minor industries of the countryarerendei iiifj in supplying the "wherewithal" required for Hie purchase pur-chase of the tropical foods and man-j man-j ufacturiiifV materials which we must always firing from other parts of the world. ; The art of distribution eggs in condition con-dition in which they can make long ! voyages in all climates developed j rapidly during the war and cspccial-j cspccial-j ly among the Orientals. The value ; ofeggs ollicially described at "dried, frozen, etc.," entering the United State advanced from ?:i7,000 in the year preceding the war to over $8,-000,000 $8,-000,000 in l'jl'J, but dropping to about $.',000,000 in 1 It J 1 and was almost I exclusively of Oiienlal production, a ' very large proportion coming from j China with limited quantities from i Japan, Hongkong, Australia and New Zealand. The crackle of the American hen reverberates throughout the entire world and with constantly increasing increas-ing intensity. The total number of eggs sent oil t of continental United Slates in the fiscal year which cuds , with June, 1'.I2.", will approximate a half billion with a value of approximately approxi-mately $r2, 000, 0110, and will show a larger total than in any preceding year with (he possible exception of one of the war years, when demands from Europe were exceptionally heavy and especially for the class of foods convenient, for use in camps and on the battlefields. Tlio present! high record of exports, however, is j in response to normal calls fiopi all I parts of the world. j Figures compiled for the Trade Record of The National City Bank of New York indicate that the growth in the exportation of this factor of our food supply has been exceptionally exception-ally rapid in recent years. In the year preceding the war, the total exports ex-ports of eggs were 17'- million dozen with a value of !; 3,308,000, while that of the fiscal year l'.rj;! will be approximately ap-proximately 30,000.000 dozen, and if we include those sent to our own colonies but not included as "exports" the number will exceed -10 million dozen, or -ISO million eggs passing out of continental United Stales in the natural form. Add to this S10.1,-000 S10.1,-000 worth going under the classification classifica-tion "eggs and yokes frozen, dried or canned" and it is quite apparent that the total distribution from our ports in the year which ends vi;h June 1923, will he fully a half bil lion in number w ill) a value of fully :'. 1 2,000,000. The value of the eggs sent. out. of the United States in the laid, ('"cade, adds the Trade Record, is nearly $100,000,000 as against about. :?::0,000,000 in the decade preceding' pre-ceding' the war. Where do they go? To every continent, con-tinent, and all of the islands and colonies col-onies of the world. While the figures of distribution by countries are not yet available for the current, fiscal car, those for 1910, the former high iccoid year, .show eggs sent in the natural form to 20 countries, while those in the "dried, frozen or canned" can-ned" state went in 1920 to no less than !" countries, colonics and islands, isl-ands, representing all of the grand divisions of the world. England, which has for many years been a large importer of this class of foodstuff, food-stuff, is the largest of the European purchasers, and the number sent to that, country in the 0 months ending with March, 1923, is ?l,i'.97,00 dozen, valu''l a $1,528,000, or an average iXport r' ice to Great Britain of 32. 5c per dozen, while the average export price of those going to the entire world in the same period was 27. (ic per dozen. Canada, Cuba and Mexico are even larger importers of eggs from the United States than is Great Britain, the total number sent from the United Slates to Mexico in the 9 months ending with March, 1923, having been 5,832,000 dozen; to Canada Can-ada 8.372,000, and to Cuba 8,487,000 as against 1.097,000 sent to the United Unit-ed Kingdom in the same period, in the "dried, frozen and canned" |