REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. 



511 



What cares a country of such resources of soil and labor for a single 

 article of export, however kingly, which can recoup its loss in such a 

 manner in a single decade? During this period the total export of cot- 

 ton, officially reported by its customs officers, was but $24,564,772. 



Here was vantage gained which could not be lost, and we find that 

 in the eighteen subsequent years the exports of cotton have aggregated 

 83,005,940,553, while the exports ot grain and animals and their prod- 

 ucts— "bread and meat" — make together a total of $4,010,418,722. 



The following statement — first, of the exports of four years, and after- 

 wards in two periods of seven years each — illustrates the cumulative 

 force of the foreign movement of grain and provisions, which is the 

 most remarkable ever presented in the world's history: 



Tears. 



Cotton. 



Breadstuff's. 



Animal 

 products. 



18fifl-'C9 



798, 3C9, 431 

 1, 447, 868, 864 

 1,419, 827, 258 



205, 225, 449 

 738, 800, 228 

 1, 459, 020, 577 



115, 820, 432 

 514,055. 620 

 977, 496,416 









3, 605, 940, 553 



2, 403, 046, 254 



1, 607, 372, 468 





Taking the values of twenty-two years, from 1861, that of the eatables 

 exceeds the value of cotton by more than a billion dollars. Cotton may 

 still bo princely, but the realm of bread and meat is kinglier still. 



The lesson which these facts teach is unmistakable. Jill natural re- 

 sources should be utilized — the glassy glade for the dairy, the hill crest 

 and slope for fruit, the bottom lands for corn, tillable uplands for va- 

 rious crops in rotation, and no great district should be restricted to one 

 product, whether cotton or wheat. Such restriction will in one genera- 

 tion lead to poverty of land and people. All natural resources should 

 be realized — the underlying ore, the coal, lime, kaolin, building stone, 

 salt springs — beneath the soil as well as the soil itself. This use of 

 nature, so varied and comprehensive, can alone secure the full utiliza- 

 tion and productiveness of labor, and the highest averaged wealth and 

 culture. 



AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS OF 1883-'84. 



Statement of the exports of agricultural products of the United States during the fiscal year 



ended June 30, 1884. 



Products. 



Quantity. 



Value. 



Animals : 



do.... 



do.... 



do.... 



190, 518 

 46, 382 



2, 721 



3, 742 

 273, 874 



$17, 855, 495 

 627, 4X0 

 424, 317 

 490, 809 

 850, 146 

 45, 282 

 199. 242 

 499, 134 

 62. 759 

 36, 386 

 715, 650 

 640, 939 

 1, 304, 329 



504, 218 

 350, 118 



3, 173, 767 

 11, 987, 331 

 3, 202, 275 

 67. 758 

 4, 793, 375 











Gluo 





295, 484 

 222, 313 











Oils: 



Provisions (comprising meat and dairy products): 

 Beef products — 





712, 696 

 159, 486 







120, 784, 064 

 42,379,911 

 641, 163 

 63, 091, 103 







