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Show J FOOD EXPORTS GREATEST EVER 3j Value, However, Totals Only "j Two-thirds of the Pre L vious Year H WASHINGTON Feb. 9. Exports H f agricultural products during the PBN p-it year the Import mini M.lmno in Kwl 's hi.stor frrr.!od h0S Hj ot 'L''i by nearly 1 ODO.OOO tons mil K Iggf" worn almost twb r n laigo n.-. tlv pf - i a war VOluiWO in lOU. according to a HI M statement Issued Wednesday by the ES 2 commerce department In money vnl- Hfl H ne. however, the department said, th I , puntrv received only about two-thirds 9 , . tnu'e for the total of exports in I 1021 as for the previous year, although Europe paid twice as much as In 1918- B I Dtirlnc the la it year agricultural ox- DS I porta totalled over 20,000.0O tons for H5 I which $2,000.000 00 Was received COm- I pared With 16.500.000 ton? worth J3- 9 I fiOO.000.000 in 1920. nn-1 10. BOO. 000 1 I tons valued at 11.000.000.000 In 1913 K9 I Grain wn.s the principal agricultural Hj9 I f commodity exported in 1921. the totali Ka I amounting to is 000.000 tons as ccm- I i ured r!lh 12 900,000 tons in 1920 and Bfl I 8.000,000 tons in 1913. BB "The cause of our enormous increase in food exports since 1913." the depart-nicnt depart-nicnt said, "does not lie so much in de- E i-reased production In vestern and central Europe for the area Is rap- HL-4L Idly recovering fts norn luctlon. 1 Hfc ,,,1 . ri.iinlrv r. i fc H BflHf has ceased and thus the food base Ejl for the western Europe is transferred Dt-'B 1 1-. BH Mich depths that a recovery of her agriculture to a consequential export IBH bails Is extremelv unlikely for a num- IEH bar of year to come." |