THE NEW EARTH 



dollars, exceeding our imports by four hundred 

 and twenty-five millions of dollars. In 1904, 

 the value of our agricultural exports had ad- 

 vanced to, in round numbers, eight hundred 

 and sixty millions of dollars. In the same 

 year, while we produced nearly five billion of 

 dollars' worth of these products, we found we 

 had well on toward a billion dollars' worth to 

 sell abroad. To show how stable is this foreign 

 demand for the products of the New Earth 

 in America, it may be stated that, during the 

 sixteen years ending June 30, 1905, we sold 

 abroad, twelve billions of dollars' worth of 

 these products, while there was a constant and 

 large trade balance in our favor. In 1904, 

 while there was a heavier importation of 

 foreign products of the earth than ever before, 

 mainly coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate and wool, 

 still the balance of agricultural trade was over 

 three hundred million of dollars in our favor. 



Truly we deal with sums of commanding 

 size and influence when we consider what is 

 transpiring in our commercial intercourse with 

 foreign peoples. 



Taking 1900, our last national census year, 

 as an example, we find that the ten chief 



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