12 The Bulletin. 



We feel outraged to think of having 75 per cent of our yearly food 

 supply grown in other States. But if it costs thirty cents a day for 

 the average person to live, basing the cost on the market value of the 

 food he consumes, and but one-third of this amount is shipped in 

 from vs^itbout the State, we are annually sending out of the State 

 $80,300,000 for food supplies. 



Following are the totals, with estimated cost of food products 

 shipped into the State from outside sources during 1900, as obtained 

 from the one hundred and thirty replies to the letter sent out early 

 in the year : 



CANNED GOODS, 145,456 CASES, @ $2.50 A CASE I 363,640.00 



FLOUR, 665,164 BARRELS, @ $6 A BARREL 3,990,984.00 



CURED MEAT, 7,721,935 POUNDS, @ 12y2C. A POUND 965,241.87 



BARRELED PORK, 195,965 BARRELS, @ $25 A BARREL 4,899,125.00 



BEEF, 170,425 POUNDS @ IVjC. A POUND 12,781.87 



•CORN, 1,342,232 BUSHELS, @ 60 CENTS A BUSHEL 805,339.20 



WHEAT, 205,828 BUSHELS, @ $1.15 A BUSHEL 236,702.20 



OATS, 706,282 BUSHELS, @ 45 CENTS A BUSHEL 317,826.90 



HAY, 22,187.5 TONS, @ $10 A TON 221,875.50 



BUTTER, 248,265 POUNDS, @ 20 CENTS A POUND 49,653.00 



TOTAL $ 11,863,169.54 



If we allow the above total to represent one-fifth of the food supplies 

 shipped into the State it will be seen that we are sending away to 

 other States annually $4,990,847.70 more than the entire value of 

 the cotton crop of the State in 1909, which was, rating the lint at 16 

 cents a pound and the seed at 40 cents a bushel, $54,325,000. 



