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world markets. 



But as production increases these export markets must not 

 only be maintained but they must be increased. 



State Departments of Agriculture are becoming increasingly 

 aware of the fact that 93^o of the world's population live beyond 

 the borders of the United States and so the correct move in most 

 states is to create foreign trade sections in their marketing 

 divisions in order to encourage the exporting of farm products. 



Many states already have working export -sections in their 

 agriculture departments. Florida, Maine and V/isconsin have been 

 particularly active and successful in this field. Michigan and 

 Virginia legislatures passed a similar bill for the first time last 

 year. 



Massachusetts agricultural crops are worth over $170 million 

 annually and as a result the export market should be encouraged to 

 our own growers. 



VJe are already in the export business in a limited fashion 

 which has proved to be of tremendous value in protecting our own 

 domestic markets by keeping supply and demand at a constant level. 



Massachusetts is exporting over 1,500,000 baby chicks each 

 year and over 3)000,000 hatching eggs to forty-one countries. 



Last year there v/ere sixty-seven shipments of tree seeds, - 

 thousands of bulbs, some nursery stock and a steadily increasing 

 business in house plants chiefly to Canada. A major export item 

 in that general field are carnation cuttings v.'hich approximate 

 2 million yearly and are shipped to all parts of the world. 



