Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1909 — Home [?]. [ARTICLE]

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Attention Is drawn to the growth of rice production in the United States from an average of less than 100,000,000 pounds per annum a few years ago to an average of 600.000,000 per annum in recent yeari and over 600,000.|OOO in 1908 in a study just made by 'the department of commerce and labor. Rice production -in the United States seldom reached 100.000.000 pounds per annum prior to 1885 and had but twice crossed the 200,000,000 line prior to 1900. Then came in 1901 a production of 388,000,000 pounds; in 1903. 500,000,000; in 1904, 586,000,000. and in 1908, 608,000,000 pounds. The rice production of the United States in the last decade has equaled that of the half century immediately preceding. The production of domestic rice In the recent period greatly exceeds the consumption of both domestic and foreign rice in the earlier period. Imports of rice into the United States, including rice flour, meal and broken rice, ranged during the last twenty years from 100,000,000 to 200.000,000 pounds per annum, seldom falling below 100,000,000 and seldom exceeding 200,000,000, while the domestic production about equaled the imports, making, after deducting the small exports of that period, an average annual consumption ranging from 250,000,000 to 400.000,000 pounds. Even during the recent period of large domestic production importations have continued at about the same rate as in former years, while exports have (save in one or two exceptional yearsi been comparatively small, thus suggesting a largely increased domestic consumption. Of the 608,000.000 pounds of rice produced in the United States in 1908 52.8 per cent was produced in Louisiana. 41.8 per cent in Texas. 2.2 per cent in South Carolina, 2.1 per cent in Arkansas and the remainder in Georgia. Alabama, Florida. Mississippi and North Carolina. Somebody suggests a $2,500,000 monument to Washington. Anything that could possibly be done would fall pitifully short of expressing the reverence for Washington which is in the hearts of the people. Loeb boasts of his present chiefs support. How different from the days when he was lambasted for everything he did or didn’t do! In order to be an early Christmas shopper it is necessary to begin today or tomorrow. Perhaps the comet calls around just to give a few points on aerial flight.