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Show PRUNE EXPORTS ARE NEAR $7,000,000 Washington, D. C . Nov 6 Stewed prunes, that 6taple dish of the American Am-erican boarding house apparently has found a welcome home In manv for eign lands. Judging by the large In crease In exports from Pacific coast states. Figures compiled by the bureau of foreign and domestic com merce Bhow that during the fiscal year of 1913 more than i ;;;,ouO,(Ko pounds valued at 6 2-3 million dollars, wero ' shipped across the seas. In 1898 the exports amounted only to 16.000,000 pounds. More than sixty different countries are represented among the prune-pur-cliasers from this country Germany leads all the rest with 49.000,000 pound6 to her credit The Nether lands was Becond with 16 1 2 million pounds more than the United States exported in 1898. Other countries were England. France, Canada. Australia, Aus-tralia, India. Slam, the Philippines Egypt, Africa, Dutch Guiana and British Honduras. |