Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1915 — OCR FOREIGN TRADE [ARTICLE]

OCR FOREIGN TRADE

Though the imports for March were below normal, a fact whiel< accounts for, in part at least, tin* enormous excess of exports for th/p present, fiscal year, they nevertheless show signs of recovery For .March of this year ’ ainoantodj, to $ 1 58,0 11>,2 16, as agafpst, $ 1 82,4 cm r-spending months in llt I 4 andi 1913. Here is a’ slight excess dyer| the figures for March two years auo.|

The improvement seems to be continuing. For the week ending April 17 dur imports amounted to $.20,5 18,603,. as against. for the preceding week, and $18,678,233 for the week before that. Our exports are very large, so that, their ' excess over imports is hot

sobdy due to a decrease in the la 1 ter. I Last month we sent abroad goods valued at $299,445,498, which is a new record. This is an increase of more than a hundred million over the exports in March, 1914. The excess over imports was $140,969,347. For the first nine months 6; the fiscal year our exports amounted to $1,933,475,580, as against sl,88 3,221,915/ for jhe same period last year. It is believed that the total for; the year w ill not : all 'e-

, low $2,750,000,000. ’ Of course there lias hern a considerable shifting in e:.’- trade, due to the war. One sa! o r exports' n.,.< go to linti exTitory,'■ Ihi.portsfrom most of the important (pun-.' tries show a falling off. In the first | eig.it, .months of the year imports froiw the United Kingdom’ fell from ' 8•;9 >,4 i B. ono i p $353,585,000. There was a smaller shrinkage in imports' front Germany than in those from France, the decrease having been $127,289,000 to $75,727,000 in the former case, and from $104,765,000 to $55,169,000 in the latter. Our Russian trade suffered severely, the fall being from $15,553,000 to $2,959,000. Our exports to the United Kingdom and France show large gains, in the one.case of from $756,006,000 . to $811,289,000, and in the latter from $124,981,000 to $.188,094,000. Exports to Germany shrank from $262,719,000 to $28,768,000. Our exports to Italy rose from $5'2,787,000 to $115,278,000. And there

was an enormous increase in exports to Deninark, the figures for last year being $.11,299,000 as against $52,089,000 this year Sweden shows an increase from $9,554,000 to $47,593,000, Perhaps the great rise in the volume of exports to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Italy may be taken as indicating that some of the excess is finding its way into

Germany, A large part of the increase is in breadstuffs, the figures being $60,000,000 this year as against $8,000,000 last year. Taking breadstuffs, cottonseed oil, food animals, meat, dairy products, cotton and mineral oil, we find that the combined exports of these have risen from $75,110,000 to $154,159,000. The cotton situation is very encouraging, there having been an increase in exports from $43,360,<iii.o_.io $53,524,000. We sent abroad 1,208,000 -bales, weighing 630,692, Oop pounds, as compared with 695,000 bales, weighing 360,138,000 pounds last year. On the whole

our Repjgn trade, r Brunton n .v ~ aaje > ; rted to run. After running <a -- distance the wagon tongue Iriwn and run into the ground Sunda. the box to turn over and Leslie Mr. Brown -4 b the ground. Law ick the ground with his head Grace oulders and cut a bad gash Sunday i eye, and was shaken up con- Then le. Dr. Martin of Mt. Ayr, League . Becher of Morocco, were welcom< and attended him. He was Mr ? ?rious condition for a time Igetting along nicely at this j o h n s I .. Our ;

GOODLAND. i [From The Herald. 1 juyeu to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Mr. a April 16, a girl. & un( *ay n Lemaster is a patient at ’ .Vincent hospital in Indian- , s - Mitchel , Mrs. \\ n Waterman was down v r hicago last Saturday and miss day to ' at Lin? l Monty and his good wife , : •mnlating a trip to the west- . *, rs • a<, m,.> ..a, pie, a a., toe u | set a good example—-no long cold drinks, for me." ’Tis thus with all ■ the warring nations; they’re finding out that liquid rations are fruitful of despair, far . more than all the swords, that slaughter, the subma j r nesdown finder water, the airships' in the air. In Russia now no 1 vodka's flowing; we see the thirsjy j mptijiks going .to tap the helpful well; and France, the volatile, and merry, prohibited the old “green .''ai.ry"; i d m-tit her sons to hell. The Germap soldiers heard the kaiser informing them it would bo wiser.i to give the pump a show; thus all the rulers are deciding that Barley-' corn, the long abiding, means trou-l ble, strife and wOe.