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Show TELLS OF OUR TRADE. Chief Hickock Disusses American Exports. Washington, June Vi Frank H. Hickock. Hick-ock. chief of the section of foreign markets, mar-kets, department of agriculture, today described de-scribed to the industrial commission the growth of our export trade, which nas in' reased 2K per cent since lsGO. He said that the prospects lor its continued increase in-crease were bright. The .surplus of apricultural products which mav be exported from this coun-trv coun-trv is about 25 per cent of our entire production. pro-duction. Great Britain, he said, is our most important market, taking 55 per cent of the export: Germany follows, with 1 per cent. Then comes France, which consumes 6 per cent of the output. out-put. . Raw cotton goes chiefly to Japan, where Miormous quantities are used. About jj per cent of the cattle exported go to tne I'nited Kingdom, the total average value being about $3S.(KW.Of0 a year. Our trade with Cuba is growing rapidly. |