UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. (COMMERCE AND PRODUCTION.) 



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The imports into the United States from Cuba 

 were $34,694,684, and exports to Cuba $25,100,- 

 453 ; imports from Porto Kico were $8,297,422, and 

 exports to Porto Rico $6,861,917; imports from 

 Hawaii were $24,700,429, and exports to Hawaii 

 were $19,000,000; imports from the Philip- 

 pines were $6,612,700, and exports to the Philip- 

 pines were $5,251,867. The total exports show a 

 decrease of over 7 per cent, from those of 1901. 

 Exports of farm-products fell off most heavily. 

 The decrease in corn exports was nearly $50,000,- 

 000; in iron and steel manufactures, nearlv $19,- 

 000,000; in copper, $2,000,000. The exports of 

 manufactured goods fell off from $412,000,000 to 

 $403,750,000, but apart from iron and steel and 

 copper goods there was an increase of $12,500,000. 

 The demand for railroad and structural steel 

 goods was so strong in the United States that 

 there was no surplus for export, and the imports 

 of iron and steel increased from $17,750,000 to 

 $27,000,000. In the general imports there was a 

 great increase in materials for manufactures, such 

 as cotton, wool, silk, fibers, tobacco, hides, rub- 

 ber, wood, tin, copper, and chemicals, and the in- 

 crease in quantities was larger than in values. 

 While exports to Europe fell off considerably, 

 there was an increase in the exports to Asia, 

 Oceania, and Africa. Exports to China increased 

 from $10,500,000 to $24,750,000; to Japan, from 

 $19,000,000 to $21,500,000. The exports to all 

 Asiatic countries have risen from $19,750,000 in 

 1890 to $64,000,000; to Oceania, from $16,500,000 

 to $34,250,000. 



The imports of American gold coin in the year 

 ending June 30, 1902, were $3,870,320; of foreign 

 gold coin, $12,838,592; of gold bullion, $10,496,- 

 745; of gold in ore, $24,815,597. The imports of 

 American silver coin were $518,397 ; of foreign sil- 

 ver coin, $3,731,544; of silver bullion, $6,931,678; 

 of silver in ore, $17,050,635. The exports of gold 

 coin were $9,370,841; of gold bullion, $37,204,010; 

 of gold in ore, $186,587 ; of silver coin, $209,291 ; 

 of silver bullion, $45,685,325; of silver in ore, $76,- 

 633. The total gold imports were $52,021,254; ex- 

 ports of domestic gold were $46,761,438, and of for- 

 eign gold, $1,807,512. The total silver imports 

 were $28,232,254; the exports of domestic silver 

 were $45,971,249, and of foreign silver $3,761,141. 



The production of corn in the United States in 

 the census year 1900 was 2,105,102,516 bushels; 

 of wheat, 522,229,505 bushels; of oats, 809,125,989 

 bushels; of barley, 58.925.833 bushels; of rye, 23,- 

 795,927 bushels; of buckwheat, 9,566.966 bushels; 

 of hay, 50,110,906 tons; of potatoes, 210,926.897 

 bushels; of rice, 285,750,000 pounds; of hops, 208.- 

 000 bales of 180 pounds; of flaxseed, 20,086,000 

 pounds: of hemp, 11,750,630 pounds; of sweet po- 

 tatoes, 42,526,696 bushels; of peanuts, 11,964,957 



pounds; of apples, 175,397,626 bushels; of peaches, 

 15,433,623 bushels; of pears, 6,625,417 bushels. 

 The number of farm animals on Jan. 1, 1900, was 

 13,537,534 horses, value $603,969,442; 2,086,127 

 mules, value $111,717,092; 16,292,360 cows, value 

 $514,812,106; 27,610,054 oxen and other" cattle, 

 value $689,486,260; 41,883,065 sheep, value $122,- 

 665,916; total value, $2,212,756,578. There were 

 5.739,657 farms on June 1, 1900, of which 5,537,- 

 731 had buildings. The total acreage was 841,- 

 901,546, of which 414,793,191 acres were improved 

 and 426,408,355 acres unimproved. The total esti- 

 mated value of farm property was $90,514,001,838; 

 value of land improvements, $13,114,402,056; 

 value of buildings, $3,660,198,191; value of im- 

 plements and machinery, $761,261,550; value of 

 live stock, $3,078.050,041 ; value of farm-products 

 in 1899, $4,739,118,752; value of products fed to 

 live stock, $974,941,046; value of products not fed 

 to live stock, $3,764,177.706; expenditure for la- 

 bor, $365,305,921; expenditure for fertilizers, 

 $54,783,757; number of farms worked by owners, 

 $3,713,371; number rented for money, 759,920; 

 number rented on shares, 1,273,366. The number 

 of farms worked by white persons was 4,970.129; 

 by negroes, 746,717. There were about 11,000,000 

 dairy cows in 1899, producing 1,430,000,000 pounds 

 of butter, an average of 130 pounds, of the total 

 value of $257,400,000, at an average price of 18 

 cents a pound; 1,000,000 cows producing 300,000,- 

 000 pounds of cheese, worth, at 9 cents a pound, 

 $27,000,000; and 5,500,000 cows producing an av- 

 erage of 380 gallons of milk, 2,090,000,000 gallons 

 altogether, worth, at 8 cents a gallon, $167,200,- 

 000; total value of dairy-products, $451,000,000, 

 besides calves and the skim milk, buttermilk, and 

 whey for feeding stock, which were worth enough 

 to make the total $500,000,000. The exports of 

 butter in 1902 were 10,333,007 pounds to Great 

 Britain, value $1.924,408; 206,582 pounds to Ger- 

 many, value $32,080; 696,067 pounds to Canada, 

 value $140,545; 140,428 pounds to Cuba, value 

 $30,526; 1.311,313 pounds to Brazil, value $164,- 

 407; total quantity, 16,002,169 pounds, value 

 $2,885,609. The cheese exports were 25,107,421 

 pounds to Great Britain, 4,235 pounds to Ger- 

 many, 354,889 pounds to Central America, and 

 1,124,347 pounds to the West Indies; total quan- 

 tity, 27,203,184 pounds, value $2,745,597. The 

 number of hogs packed during the year ending 

 March 31, 1902, was 30,395,000. The exports of 

 hams for the year ending June 30, 1902, were 

 227,653,232 pounds, value $25,222,744; of bacon, 

 383,150,624 pounds, value $35,449,797; of pork, 

 160,067,949 pounds, value $13,770,026; of lard, 

 556,840,222 pounds, value $52,375,864. The wool- 

 clip in the fiscal year 1901 was 288,636,621 pounds; 

 imports, 32,865,844 pounds of clothing and 67,- 

 127,159 pounds of carpet wool, making a total of 

 103,583,505 pounds; exports, 3,790,067 pounds; 

 retained for consumption, 388,430,059 pounds. 

 The domestic production in 1902 was 302,502,328 

 pounds. The cotton-crop of 1902 was 10,701,453 

 bales averaging 487 pounds. The consumption of 

 the United States and Canada was 4.539.018 bales 

 and the exports to Europe were 6,440,787 bales; 

 total, 10.979,805 bales. The consumption of 

 United States mills was estimated at 4,037.000 

 bales. There were 21,559,000 spindles in opera- 

 tion, one-fifth of the total number in the world. 

 The number of spindles in Southern mills increased 

 from 1,500.000 in 1890 to over 5.000,000 in 1900. 

 The sugar-crop in 1902 was 310.000 tons of cane- 

 sugar in Louisiana and 163.126 tons of beet-sugar. 

 The consumption of the United States in 1901 was 

 1.932,330 tons refined from imported sugar, in- 

 cluding 300,070 tons from Hawaii, 66,279 tons 



