The following table shows the exports to the United States made by the countries of Europe and the percentage relation of the figures to the total export trade of each nation: Similarly, the following tables show the exports of South America to the United States and their relation to the total exports of South America: The "Annual Report of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor of the United States," recently published, states that the world's commerce amounts in round numbers to $22,324,000,000 a year, made up of the following: Imports Total. $11, 809, 000, 000 10, 515, 000, 000 22, 324, 000, 000 Europe leads in this international commerce, both as to exports and imports, as is shown in the following figures: The following table shows the exports to the United States made by the countries of Europe and the percentage relation of the figures to the total export trade of each nation: Similarly, the following tables show the exports of South America to the United States and their relation to the total exports of South America: The imports of the countries of Europe from the United States and the percentage of these imports to their whole imports were: Imports of South American countries from the United States were: Of the $349,691,000 imports of South America, $43,878,000, or 12.55 per cent, were from the United States, and of the total exports of South America, amounting to $537,439,000, $107,161,000, or 19.94 per cent, were sent to the United States. THE WORLD'S PRODUCTION OF QUININE. According to a report by the director of plantations of quinia for British India, the Madras Government manufactured, in 1902, 15,711 pounds of quinine and Bengal 11,297 pounds, a total production for India of 27,008 pounds. The Island of Java produced and exported 43,750 pounds. The different countries producing the bark exported, in 1902, the following quantities: Java, 14,726,000 pounds; India, 1,020,000 pounds; Ceylon, 407,000 pounds; South America, 775,000 pounds; Africa, 178,872 pounds; a total of 17,106,872 pounds. There are twenty establishments in the world manufacturing quinine, distributed as follows: France, 5; England, 3; Germany, 2; Italy, 2; Holland, 1; America, 4; Java, 1; Bengal, 1, and Madras Presidency, 1. WAGES IN GERMANY. Under date of July 9, 1904, United States Consul-General GUENTHER, of Frankfort, Germany, transmits the following tabular statement taken from the "Frankfurter Zeitung" of July 7, showing the average annual wages earned by workmen over 16 years of age, in the mining and iron and steel industries of upper Silesia, Germany, for the five years, 1899-1903. Average annual wages per capita in the mining and iron industries, upper Silesia. COFFEE, NOTES UPON ITS ORIGIN AND PROPAGATION, ITS INTRODUCTION AND CULTIVATION IN COSTA RICA." By JOAQUIN B. CALVO. Among the varied agricultural products which at present constitute the leading features of universal commerce not one presents an instance of such rapid and extensive development as coffee. The dissemination of knowledge of the useful qualities of the product is due to the Turks and the original extension of its cultivation to the Dutch. The aromatic grain does not appear to have been satisfied itself at all on its native soil, but on emigrating to foreign regions it fulfilled a condition of greatness and prosperity. Indeed, so vast is the territorial extent at present devoted to its culture, and so many a Revised translation. |