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Show BRAZIL IS PICKING UP Now Exports Food She Formerly Imported Herself. Freight Trade for First Half of 1919 Shows Balance in Her Favor. Iiio de Janeiro. The foreign trade of Brazil during the first half ot l'.M'.i is regarded as very encouraging. Increased In-creased exportation of some of Brazil's Bra-zil's staple commodities, such as coffee, cof-fee, rubber, cacao, chilled beef, hides, oil bearing fruits, etc., as well as the high prices which these articles have commanded, leaves a very respectable trade balance. That Brazil lias rapidly rap-idly forged ahead commercially during the years of the war is generally conceded. con-ceded. The country's agricultural possibilities pos-sibilities are a yet praeticaby unex-i unex-i plotted, and the war acted as a stimulus stimu-lus tivward ascertaining the wide rmg.o of lie- product i- :' I Brazil lias been able to export to I Europe foodstuffs which a few years ' ago she was not able to supply t herself. In the same way animal husbandry hus-bandry is making strides which point to making meat products one of the country's chief exports. Willie Brazil Bra-zil lias always been a cattle produc-; produc-; ing country, it is only during the last throe or four years that she lias been looked upon as a world supplier. More recently several large modern parking park-ing houses liave been constnictejl or projected. These are fir.snci'd princl-j princl-j pally by American packing interests. In the last year the federal government, govern-ment, through the agricultural department, depart-ment, lias devoted considerable attention atten-tion to the importation and purchase 1 of animals of i'ltro blood. It is pro-j pro-j posed to carry v an extensive educational educa-tional campaign among the live stork breeders of Brazil To improve the standard of cattle. For this purpose . the government imonds to make lib-feral lib-feral money appropriation. |
